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Lx Factory, a historical industrial complex housing an array businesses, arty retailers, restaurants and bars very popular with both locals and tourists
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A casual encounter between a bride making pictures for her wedding and a visiting rugby team at the Cais das Colunas in the Baixa area of Lisbon
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Tourists in Alfama, a historic working class neighborhood in Lisbon that became one its most popular touristic destinations. Several longtime residents of the area, most elderly and poor, are being evicted from their homes so landlords can rent their apartments on Airbnb. Booming tourism has been the engine of Portugal's economic recovery of recent years after an economic crisis in 2008 devastated its economy. The sector today employs 12,4% pf the population os Lisbon and brough in € 8 billion to the city's economy in 2015
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Tour tickets vendor in the Rossio part of Lisbon historic district. Booming tourism has been the engine of Portugal's economic recovery of recent years after an economic crisis in 2008 devastated its economy. The sector today employs 12,4% pf the population os Lisbon and brough in € 8 billion to the city's economy in 2015
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Anti-tourism grafitti on a wall in Alfama, a historic working class neighborhood in Lisbon that became one its most popular touristic destinations. Several longtime residents of the area, most elderly and poor, are being evicted from their homes so landlords can rent their apartments on Airbnb
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Tourists in Alfama, a historic working class neighborhood in Lisbon that became one its most popular touristic destinations. Several longtime residents of the area, most elderly and poor, are being evicted from their homes so landlords can rent their apartments on Airbnb
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Tourists in Alfama, a historic working class neighborhood in Lisbon that became one its most popular touristic destinations. Several longtime residents of the area, most elderly and poor, are being evicted from their homes so landlords can rent their apartments on Airbnb. Booming tourism has been the engine of Portugal's economic recovery of recent years after an economic crisis in 2008 devastated its economy. The sector today employs 12,4% pf the population os Lisbon and brough in € 8 billion to the city's economy in 2015
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Tourists in Alfama, a historic working class neighborhood in Lisbon that became one its most popular touristic destinations. Several longtime residents of the area, most elderly and poor, are being evicted from their homes so landlords can rent their apartments on Airbnb. Booming tourism has been the engine of Portugal's economic recovery of recent years after an economic crisis in 2008 devastated its economy. The sector today employs 12,4% pf the population os Lisbon and brough in € 8 billion to the city's economy in 2015
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Recently sold building in Marques de Pombal, a neighborhhod in the heart of historic Lisbon favoured by foreing buyers. Real state prices have been climbing steeply in Lisbon and other Portuguese cities, largely as result of the investment of foreigners, making them increasingly unafordable to many local residents. In 2016 alone apartment prices in the historic center of Lisbon increased 19%
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Olinda Bernardino Rosário Conceição at the dining room of her apartment in Mouraria, where she lives with her husband, her daughter, her daughter in law and her grandaughter. Olinda is 66 and has been living in the apartment since she was 9, where she also ran a hair salon until 5 years ago. She had to close the salon because her clients became too old to climb the 3 flights of stairs and the taxes too steep for her income. In early 2017 she received an eviction notice from her landlond, who wanted to renovate the place to rent for tourists. After several protests and a legal fight, she and her neighbour won the right to stay in the building for 5 more years with a small increase in their rents
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Rui Pedro (blue t-shirt) chats with longtime costumers at his small grocery store in Mouraria, a historic working class neighborhood famous for its large number of immigrants in Lisbon. Rui is being evicted from the apartment where he grew up, next door to the grocery so the landlord can renovate it and rent on short term for tourists. He fears his grocery store will be next to be evicted. Mouraria is undergoing a fast process of gentrification, with several buildings being bought by foreigners.
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Street in Chiado, a historic neighborhood that became one of the most popular destinations for tourists in Lisbon. Booming tourism has been the engine of Portugal's economic recovery of recent years after an economic crisis in 2008 devastated its economy. The sector today employs 12,4% pf the population os Lisbon and brough in € 8 billion to the city's economy in 2015
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Rosário Conceição at the dining room of her apartment in Mouraria, where she lives with her husband and a dog. In early 2017 she received an eviction notice from her landlond, who wanted to renovate the place to rent for tourists. After several protests and a legal fight, she and her neighbour won the right to stay in the building for 5 more years with a small increase in their rents
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José Mota Leal (center), director of the Beato Creative Hub, leads a group of potential investors from France on a visit to the space. The Beato Creative Hub is a former military maintenance factory in the Beato neighborhood of Lisbon that is being converted by the city government into an innovation hub, intending to nurture startups and revive the old industrial region around it
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Street in Chiado, a historic neighborhood that became one of the most popular destinations for tourists in Lisbon. Rising prices are threatening the survival of many of the area's traditional commerce. Booming tourism has been the engine of Portugal's economic recovery of recent years after an economic crisis in 2008 devastated its economy. The sector today employs 12,4% of the population of Lisbon and brough in € 8 billion to the city's economy in 2015
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Event to promote Brazilian fashion at Casa Pau Brasil, a luxury multibrand store dedicated to Brazilian products founded by him after years working in finance. Wealthy Brazilians are moving in large numbers to Portugal, escaping the economic crisis at home. In 2017 almost 30% of apartments bought by foreigners in Lisbon were purchased by Brazilians, forcing prices to climb steeply. Several new businesses opened recently in the city catering to their tastes
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António Pereira da Trindade, the third generation owner of an antique and used books dealer in Chiado area of Lisbon. Chiado became one the city's most popular touristic destinations and rising prices are threatening the survival of the area's traditional businesses
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Scott Steffens, a former IT worker from Seattle, at Dois Corvos Cervejeira, a craft beer factory and bar he opened in 2013 with his wife, Susana Cascais, in the Lisbon upcoming neighborhood of Marvila, home to thriving startup scene
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Lx Factory, a historical industrial complex housing an array businesses, arty retailers, restaurants and bars very popular with both locals and tourists
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Craft beer festival at Jardim do Torel, a park in Lisbon, city where the number of small breweries have been growing exponencialy
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MATT, a new contemporary art museum inaugurated in 2016 ocupying a former power station on the margins of the Tagus river in Lisbon.
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Opening night at MATT, a new contemporary art museum inaugurated in 2016 ocupying a former power station on the margins of the Tagus river in Lisbon.
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Promotional booth for Startup Lisbon, a city agency to promote the development of new businesses, at the 2017 Web Summit, one of the most important technology conferences in the world, held for two consecutive years in Lisbon, where a thriving startup scene is emerging.