Doca de Santo Amaro
Marina sheltered below a suspension bridge, with restaurants filling converted port warehouses.
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This guide to Doca de Santo Amaro in Lisbon opens with the suspension bridge above you, built by the dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and opened in 1966 bearing his own name. It follows Salazar's near four-decade rule over Portugal and the workers who built the bridge, then turns to what happened in the years after his death in 1970. Below it, the old port warehouses along this dock now hold the restaurants and bars where you can raise a glass.
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