Dance at the King statue.

Crispy Farturas, pig heads and roasted chestnuts: In Lisbon, the New Year's Eve was a welcome opportunity to be a festive feast. Around midnight the people flocking to the streets - on the Praça do Comércio welcome tens of thousands of the new year.
  Lisbon - The paintings of the street artists in the middle of Rua Augusta in Lisbon, the new year has already begun. On the screens yellow tram ride through rows of houses brush strokes, and left at the booth throughout the images are signed with "Giuseppe" and the year, until after midnight to apply. "Tomorrow is the old year passes anyway. This is no longer worthwhile," says the artist at that last day in December.
By Arco Victória moves because of fog in the Rio Tejo wide shopping promenade. There it mixes with the smoke of the furnace in which an old man with a baseball cap chestnuts roast in salt crust. With runzeligen hands klaubt a few chestnuts in a shot from newsprint paper bag. Two euro, "obrigado", thank you.
In the bakery shop window "Casa Brasileira" at the other end of the Rua Augusta pile of eggs to cakes, honey cakes and almond cookies on silver trays. The "bolo rei" - the king cake - there will be only at Christmas and New Year sales. Candied fruits are lit in yellow, red and green on round cakes. Salesladies packages them in boxes A.
The Christmas spirit runs in Lisbon until the new year. About the streets are lit garland of stars, wreaths and bells. In the old quarters of Alfama klettern Nicholas doll with tiled walls and pull up to a balcony railing high flourished. Some of them disappear to the hip in a forest of laundry, through the narrow streets in the December sun dries.
Traditional fair with electric candles victims
At the foot of the winding neighborhood ringing the bells of the Igreja de Sao Domingos to the evening show. On the furrowed columns in the nave, the great earthquake of 1755 and a fire in the 1950s left. Once the verdicts were read out of the Inquisition. Today a father Our resonates through the walls, and behind the pulpit to read a child with the voice of bells Intercessions.
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL-QUIZAP; DDP; Antje Blinda