Campo de SANTA CLARA

Before explaining this post, I am taking this opportunity to announce the arrival of my new, alternative blog. The idea of "The Flames of Eden" (see link on the right, under my profile)is really just to allow me some more flexibility, to give more emphasis to the written word than to the photographic.
What do you think of it?

This & my next 2 posts will be about the Campo de Santa Clara - partly to make the residents of Santa clara, California feel more at home (as if!), partly to show that there is more to it than just the Flea Market on Saturdays & Wednesdays.
These are not great pictures, particularly the older ones, which are digitalised film. These posts are as a complement to Carlos' current post on http:lisbonweeklyphoto.blogspot.com
The first photo shows the most common way in & out to Campo de Santa Clara, alongside the São Vicente de Fora church & convent, on the edge of Alfama.

 

This is the Panteão, inside which are buried the kings & queens of Portugal (monarchy ended in 1910). Looking at the picture above, it stands behind me to my left. This is a Sunday evening view, no people. On market days, the pavement in front and the Panteão looks like Photo 3 below.

 

Market day. It transforms into a mess of people and all kinds of objects & items. The Portuguese name for the flea market is 'Feira da Ladra', which translates into English as Market of Thievery...enough said, as to its origins at least.

 

Lastly, a (poor) shot of the open-air market in the square. Nothing much, compared to its many London equivalents, among others. But Certainly something to see.
The 2 future posts will bring some very different views.