The leisure tourism is nowadays preponderant in Lisbon's affirmation as a tourism destination, but the Country's capital also gathers conditions for the captivation of business tourism.
Chiado is the city's noble area and the most cosmopolitan, with its coffee shops and traditional commerce, theatres, restaurants and centenary aristocratic clubs and where the residential real estate reaches the most expensive prices.
Lisbon, the 7 hills city, is presently a city of contrasts, where the most typical districts such as Alfama and the numerous monuments evocating the past like Castelo de S. Jorge and Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, conjugate themselves with the modernity of areas like Parque das Nações, that sheltered Expo 98. It is a city of an odd and uneven lightness and that has been improving recently its relation with Tagus river estuary, by requalifying its riparian zone.
