Category: 16th century
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Lisbon, or how to discover the world and lose yourself
If you take the tram from central Lisbon and straight west (a modern tram, unfortunately, not one of the city’s famous antique ones), you will reach the neighbourhood of Belém in less than an hour. This is a more tranquil, open-spaced part of town than the city centre, with its narrow, busy streets. It is…
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Bruges, or where cities go when they die
A man walks the streets of Bruges at night. He is a widower these past five years. When his wife died he moved here, since this city, like his wife, is dead. Evening after evening he spends wandering aimlessly along the grey, deserted streets, thinking of death, of the dead. On one such night, walking…