Hoje na MegaFM ouvi que Lisboa tinha sido incluida na lista TOP 53 (mas porquê 53 ? ) dos locais a visitar em 2008 do New York Times.

E melhor estamos logo em segundo lugar, atrás do LAOS.

aqui ficam os links, para a lista dos 53 locais e para a cidade de Lisboa

aqui fica um excerto:

OVERSHADOWED by larger, wealthier and more flashy European countries with world-renowned design specialties — Italian lighting, Scandinavian furniture, French fashion — Portugal has long hid on the Continent’s margin both geographically and creatively. For years, the best-known cultural contributions from this small seafaring nation were those stewed up in cauldrons from humble materials like squid and cod.

But that is changing, and no place embodies Portugal’s emergence as a serious design destination better than the waterside Santos quarter of Lisbon. The splashiest evidence is the Boavista site, where Norman Foster is designing a futuristic tower and commercial complex that will be filled with “galleries, studios, showrooms, exhibitions, performances, cinema, auditorium, cafes, shops, bars and restaurants,” in the words of its press materials. The goal is to create a project that “promotes the worlds of design and the arts