Lisbon

Sé de Lisboa is a  Roman Catholic cathedral built in 1147, making it the oldest church in Lisbon. In the 8th century, Lisbon was conquered by the Moors, and it remained under Arab control until the 12th century.  However, Christians were allowed to live in its surroundings.  In 1147, the city was reconquered by the North European crusaders, and a Lisbon Cathedral was built on the site of the main mosque of Lisbon.  
In the 13th century, King Dinis of Portugal built a Gothic cloister (garden enclosed by covered walkways), which was destroyed in the 1755 earthquake.  Ruins of it remain today.

Rua For de Rosa  “Pink Street” was the Red Light district of Lisbon.  Lisbon has a long history of being an essential port city, dating all the was back to 1200 BC.  Rua Nova de Carvalho served as the meeting spot for the sailors that docked there, where they would eat, gamble, drink, and be entertained by the local prostitutes.  The street had a less-than-savory reputation for its seedy bars, brothels and criminal activity, and in 2011 it was made-over.  Today it still has a vibrant nightlife, just one a little more gentrified. 

Animatógrafo do Rossio was built in 1907, and was one of the country’s first cinemas, and a very glamorous one at that..  In 1994, its reputation changed quite drastically, showing peepshows, stripteases, and pornographic films.

Arco da Rua Augusta was built after the 1755 earthquake to commemorate the city’s reconstruction.  It was originally designed to be a bell tower, but transformed into an elaborate arch; its construction was completed over a century later,  in 1875.