Tag: lisbon

• How Lisbon put itself on the map for real estate and tourism – and became Europe’s least affordable city | Agustín Cocola-Gant | The Guardian

  June 25, 2025

  Tourists stay in short-term rentals and foreigners buy second homes, while residents of the city rent rooms, not apartments, says researcher Agustín Cocola-Gant https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/25/lisbon-europe-portugal-golden-visa-capital-investors-short-term-rentals more ›

• ‘Half our villages are dying’: How digital nomad hubs are reinvigorating rural Europe

  July 22, 2024

  The boom in remote working in recent years has turned major European cities like Lisbon, Barcelona and Berlin into so-called ‘digital nomad hubs’. But tensions are running increasingly high between local… more ›

• What it’s like in Europe’s popular crypto haven Portugal as the U.S. cracks down

  September 11, 2023

  LISBON, PORTUGAL — Matadors and bitcoin maximalists are regulars at Campo Pequeno, a neo-Moorish bullring in the northernmost reaches of the Portuguese capital city. The two aren’t all that different.… more ›

• Luxury homes, short lets and shacks: inside Lisbon’s housing crisis

  December 26, 2021

  Manuela Lopes dates her misfortune from the moment her Lisbon neighbourhood began attracting comparisons with Brooklyn. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/22/luxury-homes-short-lets-and-shacks-inside-lisbons-housing-crisis more ›

• Portugal must do more to confront colonial past, says Council of Europe

  March 24, 2021

  Europe’s top human rights body has called on Portugal to do more to confront its colonial past and its role in the transatlantic slave trade in order to help fight… more ›

• From London to Lisbon to Toronto, mayors grapple with public backlash to tech in cities

  December 5, 2020

    For the mayor of any modern city, an increasingly large part of the job entails managing the public backlash to new technology being deployed in those cities. The COVID-19… more ›

• Best of Lisbon 2020

  January 1, 2020

  Another year brings with it another batch of bests, another smattering of stand-outs, and another assortment of achievements. https://www.atlaslisboa.com/best-of-lisbon-2020/ more ›

• A Big Investor Warns After Lisbon’s Property Boom

  October 12, 2019

  Explore what’s moving the global economy in the new season of the Stephanomics podcast. Subscribe via Pocket Cast or iTunes. The time to buy, Baron Rothschild said after the battle of Waterloo, is… more ›

• The hottest startups in Lisbon

  August 22, 2019

  A decommissioned power station, a 15th century convent and former bread and pasta factories are part of the 20-building complex in the east Lisbon neighbourhood of Beato that’s currently being… more ›

• Where to Eat in Lisbon Now: 10 Top New Restaurants

  April 1, 2019

  Okay, Europe’s “best-kept secret” may now be anything but. Yet Lisbon’s ever evolving (and improving) restaurant scene is keeping the city exciting. It’s also spreading beyond the tourist center and… more ›