CEMETERY OF PLEASURES + FERNANDO PESSOA HOUSE

On the last stop of tram 28 (PRAZERES) is located in the historic and monumental Cemetery of Pleasures. Free visit. Optional guided tours. At the entrance on the left side, the impressive tomb of Carvalho Monteiro (an authentic work of art, like many others that exist in this cemetery), the founder of the Quinta of Regaleira, in Sintra. In the street number one, at the back of the cemetery, on the left, lies the tomb where the body of one of the greatest poets of all times, Fernando Pessoa, stayed 50 years, before being transferred to the Jeronimos Monastery 

FUNERAL OF FERNANDO PESSOA - LISBOA, 1935 - CEMITÉRIO DOS PRAZERES

 

TRAMS 25 AND 28

The leading figures of Portugal's history rest in the National Pantheon, in the Jeronimos Monastery or in the St. Vincent Monastery. But the best-known and most central cemetery in the city is also the eternal home of thousands of local souls, from the common people to noble families. 

Most of the tombs and vaults are monumental, including what is Europe's largest private funerary monument. It belongs to the family of the Duke of Palmela and is so large that from a distance it looks more like a church. Among those who created its works of art is the Italian sculptor Canova, and there's enough space to hold the bodies of over 200 people. The layout was inspired by Solomon's Temple and is in the form of an ancient Egyptian pyramid. 

Another extraordinary monument is the mausoleum of Carvalho Monteiro, the millionaire who built the Quinta da Regaleira Palace in Sintra. His resting place mixes the Romantic and the neo-Manueline styles, and is made of Italian marble sculpted with symbolic images. It is found to the left of the entrance close to the cemetery's church which includes an autopsy room, used before Lisbon had morgues. 

There are many other impressively ornate tombs, most of them belonging to the nobility, especially that of the Valle Flor family. Everything faces a wonderful view of 25 de Abril Bridge. 

This "city of the dead" was created in 1833 and has become a popular tourist attraction, especially because it's the last stop of trams 28 and 25. 

The curious name ("Pleasures") derives from a 16th-century estate that existed on this site

TOMB OF CARVALHO MONTEIRO ( O MONTEIRO DOS MILHÕES ), THE FOUNDER OF QUINTA DA REGALEIRA, IN SINTRA:

CHURCH + MUSEUM:

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CHURCH IN FRONT OF THE CEMETERY

SANTO CONDESTÁVEL CHURCH

TRAM 25

AROUND THE CEMETERY ( CAMPO DE OURIQUE ) :

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 FERNANDO PESSOA LAST HOUSE 

Rua Coelho da Rocha, 16
Tel: 213 913 270 | casafernandopessoa.cm-lisboa.pt

The house where poet Fernando Pessoa lived the last years of his life was turned into a cultural center in 1994. It's made up of a few personal objects and portraits by Almada Negreiros and Julio Pomar, as well as a library with books about the writer and subjects related to him.
There are often special events such as temporary exhibitions and poetry readings throughout the year.

FERNANDO PESSOA - QUOTES

So it is with all life. A tedium that includes the expectation of nothing but more tedium; a regret, right now, for the regret I'll have tomorrow for having felt regret today. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a life the wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Education of the Stoic Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet Everything is worthwhile If the soul isn't small. FERNANDO PESSOA, "Mar Português" My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet Myth is the nothing that is all. FERNANDO PESSOA, "Ulisses" Since I wasn’t able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Education of the Stoic We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets? FERNANDO PESSOA, "D. Sebastião" The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet They bring me faith like a closed package in someone else's plate. They want me to accept it so that I don't open it. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet Better to dream than to be. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Education of the Stoic Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates. FERNANDO PESSOA, attributed, A Taste of Heaven Art consists in making others feel what we feel. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal? FERNANDO PESSOA, "Mar Português" One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquietude We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions. FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet These are Fortunate Islands, These are lands without a place. FERNANDO PESSOA, "As Ilhas Afortunadas" Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) was a Portuguese poet and writer, most of whose work was published posthumously. He wrote frequently under heteronyms, alter egos with developed personalities, biographies, jobs, habits, attitudes, addresses, etc., who sometimes quoted and interacted with each other and other people.