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Highlight of a enactment astatine Lisbon’s Lumen Hotel is undoubtedly its dynamic outdoor colour and airy amusement presented each evening reflecting aspects of Portugal’s checkered history.
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Promptly astatine 10pm, guests instrumentality their seats either successful the interior courtyard oregon astatine tables on the first-floor terrace and bask dazzling amusement projected onto the walls astir them utilizing video mapping technology.
Opened 4 years ago, this 4-star, 147-room edifice lies extracurricular Lisbon’s hectic centre successful the Santa Cruz vicinity northbound of Lisbon’s cardinal Baixa district, a lively suburb but wrong a 10-minute taxi oregon autobus thrust of galore of the city’s astir important sites.
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Once a bid of derelict buildings, designer Frederico Valsassina has created an charismatic modern gathering with a chessboard plan wrong that emphasizes airy and dark, arsenic the hotel’s sanction suggests. Rooms are finished successful 1 of 3 tones of colour inspired by dawn, sunset and dusk. Golden Dawn, yellows representing vibrant tones of dawn; Copper Nightfall, oranges and reds reminiscent of sunsets; and Pure Light, reflecting the interplay of airy and shadiness conscionable earlier nightfall.
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My companion and I stayed successful suite 608, spacious, wood-floor, with ample floor-to-ceiling windows and a sliding doorway separating bedroom, living-room and a 2nd bathroom. With minimalist decor, furnishings included a ample sofa, 2 partition TVs, a agelong enactment bench, a mini-fridge, java and beverage facilities and a circular array with 3 chairs.
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Our main bathroom, separated from the chamber by solid panels, featured a treble descend and toiletries from Benamor, a cosmetics institution founded successful Lisbon successful 1925. Slippers and robes were provided. Outside the surviving country was a long, railed balcony facing onto the street, with chairs.
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Two added benefits for america was that the enforcement lounge was connected the aforesaid level and determination was besides casual entree to a roof-top excavation and cocktail barroom a fewer steps away. I enjoyed a fewer swimming laps and an hour’s relaxation connected lounge chairs with panoramic views implicit the metropolis earlier heading disconnected to the adjacent Calouste Gulbenkian Museum to spot its unsocial postulation of intricate creation nouveau jewelry by René Lalique, arsenic good arsenic works by Rembrandt, Monet, Rubens, Manet, Renoir, Degas and Turner.
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‘Photosynthesis’ courtyard is besides a quiescent spot to relax, decorated arsenic it is with ivy covered walls, ferns and glass-topped ‘water mirror’ ponds.
We dined alfresco astatine the hotel’s 130-seat Clorofila restaurant, its relaxed ambience enhanced by decorative flickering gas-flame lights successful solid cubicles.
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Highlights connected the paper included accepted Portuguese sausage cakes served with mango chutney, balsamic and pistachio crumble; cod and mackerel timbale with a saccharine murphy mousse and roasted peppers; sauteed padron peppers, with crushed garlic, balsamic sorbet and brackish flakes; shredded duck confit, mushroom creamy atom with glazed pome and seafood casserole served with atom and mint foam.
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Throughout the week, the cook prepares a peculiar buffet lunch. Breakfast is besides served here.
For a leisurely portion successful an informal ambience, effort the hotel’s lobby lounge bar, Six Degrees, an ambiance flooded with earthy light.
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The edifice besides has a fittingness centre, evening amusement and a 24-hour beforehand desk, arsenic good arsenic concern gathering rooms, with combined capableness of implicit 350 people.
Throughout our enactment we were served by a young and businesslike multi-national staff, including 21-year-old receptionist, Beatrz Evora, who is besides a talented illustrator.
Kitchen unit astatine the extremity of a engaged day. Photo by Columbia Hillen
For a edifice removed from the hustle and bustle of downtown Lisbon yet wrong casual scope of the city’s main attractions, Lumen whitethorn beryllium an fantabulous choice.
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