Still in January, the club organised a guided tour of the Museum of Lisbon, especially of the recently opened rooms. Through models, engravings, paintings, photographs, furniture, ceramics and tiles, many presented for the first time, the city’s history is told from the 17th century to the end of the 20th century. The 1755 earthquake, LisbonContinue reading “Guided tour of the Lisbon Museum”
Monthly Archives: January 2025
Celebrating Camões
At the Grémio Literário, the Lyceum International Club of Lisbon honoured our best-known and most important poet on the 500th anniversary of his birth. At the Lyceum’s invitation, we were joined by an illustrious personality, a connoisseur and scholar of the vate, and also a member of parliament. Edite Estrela gave what is considered aContinue reading “Celebrating Camões”
Venice in celebration
The Club began its activities in 2025 with a guided tour of the ‘Venice in Celebration’ exhibition, the theme of which was 18th-century Venetian painting, a collaboration between the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. We enjoyed paintings by Canaletto, Francesco Guardi, Giambabattista Tiepolo, Michele Mariechi and others. Canaletto demonstrated a splendidContinue reading “Venice in celebration”