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Avenida da Liberdade

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In the Restauradores neighborhood, Liberty Avenue—downtown's spine—was laid out in 1879. What started as an elegant rival to the Champs Élysées has lost some of its allure: many of the late-19th-century mansions and art deco buildings that once graced it have been demolished; others have been turned into soulless office blocks. There are, however, still some high-class hotels on the lower and mid-level sections, mixed in with old-fashioned and inexpensive pensions. Vehicles roar down both sides. It's still worth a leisurely stroll up the 1½-km (1-mi) length of the avenue, from Praça dos Restauradores to the Parque Eduardo VII, at least once—if only to cool off with a drink in one of the esplanadas (garden cafés). There are two amid the plane trees in the middle of the avenue. Halfway up and on the avenue's western side, the few theaters that make up Lisbon's surviving downtown theater district congregate in Parque Mayer.

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