2 Looks in the Same Place

Actually, the first "look" is the picture that Portelini requested in his comment to yesterday's post. Why does he love it so much? I preferred eating it. It is hardly a recognisable Lisbon Look, is it? But wait a moment..........I would really like you to consider the other photo in this pair. Why? What's the link?
What they have in common is one of my favourite Lisbon places, the Gulbenkian complex & its absolutely magnificent garden. All the usual epithets to describe green spaces in large cities apply to the full for this one. Knowing it and loving it as if it were my own back-garden (which it virtually has been for 8 years), I can say that it has a very special charm. I have used it for working, pleasure, watching, studying everything that happens in every corner at all times of the year, any time of the day on innumerable visits. Add the art collections, exhibitions, the auditoria and the 2 cafeterias and it is fair to say that Lisbon & the Lisboetas have much to be grateful for to Mr Gulbenkian. This shot represents just one aspect of the Gulbenkian garden in the spring. Dreamy, almost nebulous, reminscent of Monet. The eclair does it for another aspect...
But the last thing I want to say on it is that the place in fact justifies the adjective 'unique' because what it does NOT look, or feel like, is that it is in Lisbon or Portugal. It is more like an island of Germany, Switzerland or Austria in the heart of an Iberian capital city.