Avenida da Liberdade

Avenida da Liberdade is an important avenue in central Lisbon, in Portugal. It is a 90 metre-wide boulevard with ten lanes divided by pedestrian pavements decorated with gardens. It links Restauradores Square with the Marquês de Pombal Square.

The Avenida da Liberdade and the Restauradores Square have its origins in a public park inaugurated in the area in 1764; the park was redone in the 1830s and 1840s, the allegoric statues represent the Tagus river and Douro river.

After much discussion and polemics, the avenue was built between 1879 and 1886, after the boulevards of Paris and it quickly became a preferred hang out place for the upper class.
Many of the original buildings of the avenue have been replaced in the last decades by tall office and hotel buildings. Nowadays it boasts several interesting buildings that reflect Portuguese architecture from the late 19th through the early 21st centuries. Its pedestrian sidewalks and roundabouts, paved with the traditional Portuguese pavement, are decorated with many monuments and statues that pay homage to important Portuguese personalities.

Its hotels, shops, theatres and architecture turn it into an important tourist attraction of the city

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