Bairro Alto is one of these villages with a reservoir of emotions, starting with a respect of the new for old along many centuries already. It is a village where the natives move freely between the cosmopolitan and rural without blinking an eyelid. This world is worth your visit. Come and learn how in such a small area, quaint typical restaurants co-exist alongside others, some the most sofisticated in the city; how in just a few meters one can find second hand clothing or record shops alongside a biological produce shop and a little further a trendy bar; discover a high fashion hair-dressers tehn wind down in a bookshore or fine gallery. Besides all this there are a invisible aspects to consider, like the sounds of Fado wafting from the restaurants, history engraved in the sidewalks. modern projects and proposals which were born on these streets... Bairro Alto is one of the most beautiful villages which make up this figment called Lisbon on the banks of the Tagus River.