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- A Robbery Case -

 

This Lisbon market was born in the nineteenth century (1882). After a fire which destroyed it, was rebuilt between 1902 and 1930 superintended by Pessoano Garcia.

An amazing round cover painted with different kinds of vegetables surprised every one and soon people started to called it the Turnip Mesquite.

The author of these frescoes was the Italian Gabriel Constanti.

The Ribeira Lisbon Market slowly died as a fish and vegetable centre, where we could buy fruit poles and cabbages to the countrymen until 1990.

A new place was born and the fresh fish odours ended. Now we can see flowers, restaurants and handicrafts. Every Sundays there is now a collectors market where we can buy old books, stamps and coins.

This market is also known by its hand painted tiles, which are very valuable, however they are disappearing almost everyday.

It’s very important to denounce this situation because Portugal had the largest and most important tile collection in the world until the last three decades.

Lisbon was famous all over the world for its buildings covered by unique painted tiles.

The pictures we show have the latitude of a month and you can see the differences:

 

Panels	September 19th 2004
Panels	October 24th 2004

 

 

It was better not to take more pictures of the daily degradation on these panels because the situation turned to be frightening and security is thing that we don’t have there.

It is usual to find this antique tiles in the open market in Lisbon and the situation is so out of control that even landlords prefer to take them from the walls than to lost their patrimonial tiles.

 

 

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