Here is a cool looking doorway in what I think is an art-deco style. Doors in Lisbon come in a lot of varieties and shapes. Sometimes they're huge, sometimes they're tiny, but you can't accuse Lisboetas of having cookie-cutter doors. I know that's an odd thing to focus on, but I did work in millwork for two years! Anyway, this door was on Rua do Jasmim.
Jutting off from Rua do Jasmim is this "street", which, as you can see, ends abruptly at the top of a ledge, with a tree growing up from beneath. Lisbon is full of "streets" like this. Part of why driving in Lisbon for the uninitiated is so maddening is that "roads" will be clearly labelled on maps, but in reality they are stairways, narrow alley ways, or some other such obstacle, like this example: it just kind of ends.
OK, so this is the view (looking West) from the Praça. That dome and two steeples you seen in the distance belong to the Basilica da Estrela, which is across the steet from the Jardim da Estrela, which featured in a previous post.
Here's a close-up. Those trees belong to the Jardim.
The Praça do Principe Real features this art installation made of tires. There is no plaque or anything which identifies or explains it, so your interpretation is as good as mine.
Finally, this cool old building is across the Rua da Escola Politecnica from the Praça. Very neat. There was a sign on the building which claimed that it belonged to the University of Lisbon, but it looked rather abandoned, so who knows. In Lisbon, one can never tell if a building is abandoned or not just by looking at it.
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