Laranjeiras: Theater and Gardens

The Teatro das Laranjeiras was the most important of the private theatres in Portugal in the nineteenth century and deserves to be highlighted for the multiple reasons that this volume exposes and explains. In the same way, the Orange Tree Gardens also stand out and stand out in the Portuguese panorama. Both were part – as had been the Palace – of a process of assertion of power or, as we would say today, instruments of a construction of "cultural capital", triggered by an exponent of the elite of nineteenth-century society. The truth is that they have physically and symbolically changed a part of the life, form and culture of the city of Lisbon, becoming, if not representative, at least symbolic of an era. More so, in doing so, they shaped the future of that place. It is for this reason that this volume also extends both in territory and in time, going back to the transformations of the city in the twentieth century and their consequences in the present.