LX Factory
Industrial complex reborn as a creative hub, with studios, restaurants, shops, and a Sunday market.
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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.
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