Lisbon is a collection of villages. The star is mine.

The Star is my neighbourhood. Lisbon is more proud of its neighbourhood than of the city itself. Maybe that's where the word "bairrismo" comes from. Despite being a Lisbon born in the neighbourhood of Chiado, I became a proud inhabitant of the Estrela, in this Lisbon that is a city composed of several villages and towns, with their own traditions and habits. This is also the enormous wealth of this city. So strange when they tell me that Lisbon is a mess, a lot of traffic, noise. These do not know Lisbon or only know a tiny part of it. It's that Lisbon manages to be as quiet as the quietest inland villages.

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