Lisbon - A Walk in Avenidas Novas

Hello friends. I’d like to tell you about another walk I took in Lisbon last year. This one was a bit different, because I wanted to see buildings that were very new, renovated and opened to the public only a few weeks or months earlier. So I began my walk at the museum campus that the Portuguese call Gulbenkian. It is connected to Calouste Gulbenkian, who made a huge fortune through oil deals. During the Bolshevik takeover he brokered oil shipments from Russia and thanks to this, acquired 15 paintings from the famous Hermitage collection. Today these works are displayed here. The museum is set within a magnificent park in the heart of Lisbon. The complex was created in the 1960s through the collaboration of about seven architects and landscape designers. Last year, a new pavilion designed by Kengo Kuma was also opened. Kuma is a world-famous, Pritzker Prize-winning architect. According to the staff, when he was asked what he would like to change in the landscape, he replied "Nothing, it’s already perfect".