LX Factory

This guide to LX Factory in Lisbon starts at the Ler Devagar bookshop built around an old rotary printing press, then rewinds to 1846, when the Companhia de Fiacao e Tecidos Lisbonense opened its looms in this Alcantara district. It follows the complex through a century of industry, decades of silence, and the 2008 revival led by Joao Nunes. Take a moment under the fourteen-metre ceiling where the old press still stands.