Lisboa as a capital city

Whenever you imagine a capital city of any country you think that it should be enormous, full of national people and with a lot of different big business companies on it. But this isn’t always like that.

Actually, this summer I’ve visited Lisboa, capital city of Portugal, and after I spent some days there I realized that it isn’t a common capital for some different reasons.

First of all, I’ll speak about its shape. Although Lisboa is the capital of a not small European country, it is as big as Murcia can be and it has only a few more registered inhabitants. In addition the city was built on the top of eight big hills, making it be full of ramps that can be frustrating if you try to go for a walk.

Moreover, cultural places do not stray from fiction. The whole city seems to have been built to look like a “Disney Castle”, it isn’t realistic at all. Inside the big beautiful buildings there’s nothing but dust, only a few national people live in the middle of the capital and that’s the main reason why most of the buildings are just empty. The only people that you can find in the center of Lisboa are foreigners admiring the views that this “plastic city” offers them.

Apart from that there’s something else that claimed my attention. There, meals were amazingly common. In some other capitals were I’ve been, modern food used to be present on most of the big restaurants, but in Lisboa its traditional highly spiced food and its delightful cod was the main dish wherever I went.

Despite all I said Lisboa isn’t a bad city at all. If you go there for a few days you’ll enjoy and admire it, the problem is that you won’t enjoy the capital as much as you could because the whole city emits a false blinding shine that hide the most important and beautiful buildings.