Chiado is one of the liveliest districts of Lisbon and it's where 19th century can still be sensed in the athmosphere of the streets and places like cafés, old cinemas and theatres.
Chiado was Lisbon's Vanity Fair, the place to see and especially to be seen, in those days. Like one of our greatest 19th-century writers Guerra Junqueiro once wrote:
"If one wants to see the world, there are only two peaks for it: the Himalaias or Chiado".