the larger. 0 cabinet route is empowering women giving them the rule would. make you an agent of change. the female peacemakers stores january 5th on t.w. . lisbon has become a must see tourist destination the city's annual 4500000 visitors now outstrip its population by around 9 to one international investors have pumped billions of euros into real estate the city is one big building site this woman is trying to keep one component of her city from being destroyed in the process it's historic shops as luscious they are lisbon's heart and soul there it's a living memory. i shop at the same place as my grandmother did for the same thing

as can wrap so tailor made gloves dolls and iron door knobs. says elmira massaging. sophie attempt at it doesn't bump into many locals when she's out running errands but she does see hordes of tourists. she was born and bred in lisbon today the 52 year old works as a historian for the city council she loves her hometown and her job has deepened that connection. games if you leave him. this is

a good example of what's happening all around the city including in the old town a quarter of. the entire apartment block has been turned into a hotel or hostel it's means safe season and a traditional shop on the ground floor is closing down. from cairo is known for its traditional stores. sophia says that many commercial tenants accept compensation to move out because the only other alternative is to face even action in 2015 the lisbon city council set up a scheme to at least save establishment that belong to the city's cultural heritage once they're classified as a shop with history they're protected from the vixen for at least 5 years the stores have to be at least 25 years old and have to meet a number of criteria. today she's visiting a store whose leaseholders have asked for her help. sophie is team includes

art historians on a byetta and lucy liu. they are visiting the drug. in the old town quarter by shop. i'm simply a temp arrow from the city council from the shops with history program we'd like to go over a few things with you we need a lot of information for the application. you are the manager is not me until a few hours and you press a school report so it's my store thank you for school mentors we need documents lease agreements old photos anything related to the pharmacy's history. of course if you don't want to study. it for this is the entry in the property register from january 893. games. then we had the original arches restored. this used to be an avatar according to what we've been told. this is the most obvious. reason for this

and we have also uncovered the original flaw i will show my next stunt work yet only with the local authority for the why aren't all the shelves the same. those over there have no doors you. shall think that go see what is you know this is where the counter used to be that's why the floor is so worn here. over there was the store room. and the shelves were different objects in the us do you have old objects in the store. to be able to feel good. you. watched this you know. why are. really stands. companies it of it very much. in the sand we charge

according to what. was it you know. that that if you take a photo with a we have a lot of old customers who still want to buy things by weight and volume of fish we use i just wish some of been getting the same bottles refilled for 20 years or more . oh they are any products made here in ms been. not only is it has been based company. but without. it if you have measured it with. me. 2 all the time all good it was. not snow. but it was all of these rainbow knits i made in germany.

i can tear a thing. that nothing. that might be glad is so sympathetic one particular story to get me to we also have and portugal's famous polishing wax and a silver cane or well this mill takes me back to my childhood we used to wear esper drills that matched our uniforms and we'd skate around the freshly waxed floors at the time a lovely smell if i stayed there a smells that stay with us our whole lives it's as like the shops catapult us back into the past the smells and images. for decades rents were frozen the building is rundown and the apartments empty

almost every day investors turn up at the door beyond her son's they could make a killing. a simple meal with that with it's always there hanging over us like a clown a fear the building will be sold and everything will change that will have to leave all this behind city but it hasn't happened yet as i know. if the pharmacy is recognized as a shop with history it could be a lifesaver but that has yet to be determined. next door there is a habit dasher it. so if you tell them about the scheme the sound site wants but. this here is our website address where you can fill out the application. and i will take care of the rest. of my money i don't find any info that he hasn't already if he hadn't got that. so he is trying to save as much as possible from the wrecking ball the influx of tourists has led to an influx of

investors business is booming for the likes of air b.n. b. . how did it come to the us in 2012 in the midst of the economic crisis portugal began to issue what are known as golden bees are as anyone who invested at least 350000 euros was given a visa and tax breaks in return more than 4600000000 euros of foreign capital flowed into the country portugal has issued some 7600 golden visas mainly to chinese or brazilian investors. like sweden i can't read what it says it's not in portuguese english french or any other european language i can't read what kind of construction project it is the only thing that i can understand is the address the name of the manager am i the real estate agency and the golden visa. equalled and these are.

the language on the saw. is vietnamese some investors have made millions buying and selling properties without investing a cent in restoration millions that don't necessarily stay in portugal critics suspect money laundering. what does that mean for the portuguese people in 2018 alone average property prices in lisbon rose by 23.5 percent to $3010.00 euro as per square meter. by contrast the average monthly wage rose by 3.7 percent to 888 euros. it's not just old shops that are falling victim to property speculation in lisbon more and more locals are being forced to move out of their city because they can't

afford their rents in just 3 years the number of holiday apartments for tourist says risen by 1080 percent. here tourists encounter other tourists in the eyes thing hopeless there's no laundry hanging out of the windows to dry there's no activity here any more welcome to the city seoul isn't what it lies the sounds of day to day life are gone the residents chatting to one another outside the door you know every day there are fewer and fewer locals. shop with history status to not dissuade all property owners from trying to get small traditional businesses a victim like in the traditional bookseller street daughter crim in the affluent

yaddo district. study it was so for your temp it was funny to me for mine. for me and my aging father it's very troubling that our business that has been in the family for 3 generations is in danger is good long established relationship with our landlord has been destroyed because of greed and speculation suddenly he wanted 20 times more run from us that's the kind of money you might pay in the center of paris or london. into this room i was asking for $14000.00 euros rent each month. from the same kid to his new daughters the few good meals it's i mean it was a part of this world and i says it is so i can tell you that our more years keep a close eye on cases like this. and. they're very vigilant making sure that no law is broken and hour. late. that's your district is particularly historically significant home to palaces and other buildings

constructed after the earthquake 755. you don't support the large 18th century townhouses are being split up into cubby holes for tourists the interiors of palaces and apartments are being destroyed in the process. to squeeze it's our job to find a balance. shouldn't start to feel like an artificial city. you see that's starting to see that see. that there's been definitely need modernizing but you can't just bulldoze everything down shops workshops everything traditional in the lives of the residents themselves that's much worse than running businesses if we hadn't been designated a shop with history we no longer be here. but can the program actually protect these stores. even lisbon city council succumbed

to temptation and sold some of the family silver the palace where the department of culture was housed. so for your temper under colleagues have had to move office now they were going in and expects surrounded by air b.n. b. apartments and building sites. and he didn't hang over the balcony railings is white monochrome rather than a colorful mix. profit or protection it's a contradiction that's impossible to reconcile sophia temporarily prefers not to come and. she lives with her family 20 kilometers north of lisbon on the banks of the tigris river.

she ended daughter beatrice love the peace and quiet here the beauty of the river. they can still afford this luxury but they have to commute into the city every day to work. on. sophia's team is very committed to saving the old shops also in districts of the city built in the 20th century like of a needed it all my. company was a teen and coffee shop established in 1952 the store owners have applied to be recognised as a shop with history. in the hope of getting a 25000 euro grant. the council scheme gives them money on

a need to basics. most of whom it isn't going to recreate plans according to their customers wishes. we always grind the beans in front of them. that's a benefit of shops like these. all through the year we have 15 different plans. and this you know this is where we keep track of the customers names and their favorite blends and this custom is called february. he wrote down the amount of beans to use from angola from the cape bad islands and from sound term in timor he came up with it himself he passed away but his wife still comes and orders her late husband special blend. polo rodeo is both sales assistant and co owner so many old shops here only survive because staff

members have a financial stake in them. thank you for coming in this year we're open for the holidays. the support of most of us we will. ensure that you don't notice the grind or work. combat this machine has grinding stones to stones on top of one another yes like a graymail. points are given for tradition. makes and what's this a quarter door. which stood this is this is a real museum weighs a stone covered with metal for the grinder. but he said the paper bag on it that leaves an hour space for exactly 250 grams. because you don't have

to weigh the coffee. business just because i think that i speak for all of us when i say that this shop has everything required to be recognized as a shop with history. in lisbon city hall it's make or break time for the coffee store and the pharmacy sophia tempeh are always on her way to the meeting. of. her boss hoping your predator eye is always present when decisions are made. so for your temper or went on a buy year or describe what's special about these shops and. what do. you have a sociologist is there to give an independent assessment. nothing .

to do with the dominican both shops get the ok from the lisbon city hall now they face one last hurdle. approval from a citizens' commission which also includes architects and town planners to me that . it's a battle between the old and the new. a battle to save lisbon from degenerating into a mere amusement park. over

140 stores have been designated historic shops up to not. i'm. not. one of them is the haberdashery usual its name says it all portugal's most famous fashion designer. separates the shop pottery he's even sewn for the likes of madonna. my mother was a dressmaker herself and she used to bring me here as a small child and set me down on the calendar i loved being surrounded by all these

things i knew what i wanted to do from the early age so i always have a very strong aesthetic sense. if. the fantastic world of portuguese sardines couldn't be more different the shop is a symbol of the new lisbon. tradition doesn't have an easy time of it says so for your temper as to this used to be a jewelry shop a few days ago it looked exactly as it did when we found it and gave it historic shop status intact with the facade in its original state now it's a souvenir store. a cute little comfort them into it's got occasions that will simulate the century old jewelry shop now has a completely different function i just don't believe everything was in its original state. that the child. the tables the decorations

in the city you it i mean. but it was so beautiful. in these it's frustrating to see something like that. it was just something you get this is what this is it it's very difficult to do anything about it shop owners can do what they like with the property they can decide to go into a different business. and in this case the jeweler was also the owner of the store apparently someone offered to pay $8000.00 euros a month in rent and he didn't hesitate for a long it's not clear how the super nervous shop intends to cover the rent. and what's worse another landlord who wants to get rid of his tenants has brought a test case against lisbon the city council. he's challenging the legality of the scheme. sophia progenitor of fears the entire project is at risk.

we could have put in calls that the case has been brought before the constitutional court which is being asked to consider whether the law is in keeping with the constitution. defending the program and keeping the shops with history status could prove very complicated. view mouche. saffir complera wants to pass her love for these old stories on to her daughter before it's too late. they're going to the doll hospital a tiny shop in the heart of lisbon it was established in 183. sure that people. still cry.

when. we charge 41 year rose to remove the stuffing and make a new body. the inpatient treatment last sporty 6 weeks. in the area and. the city historian under daughter received what the dollar hospitals director money away in a quarterly year never presented more after the great lisbon earthquake people use what was left to rebuild the city. this building was constructed on the ruins of the royal hospital. the entrance was there. just as was who did what almost all children of the tiles their date from the 18th century they survived the earthquake. which is neither here seems to come from the hospital chapel which i like to say our hospital was built on top of another one of those i don't. know. we leave

the consulting room and head for the operating rooms on the 1st floor. says i'll show you the room with a really old dolls are restored in repaired by a. book that it was the surgeon's room some units and yes the most important specialist most of the specialists that everything. as to why we have to clean and remove what others have done and then we glue everything otherwise the doll will have scars. even if the dollar isn't as perfect as at birth we have dolls here that are 200 years old. but it will be our walk with the crown to its arca when there are people who donate their hair and we use that to make wigs for the dolls. the latest. there are pieces missing from this doll we will have to do some plastic surgery at hearing to

the high standards of restoration the lord told our former miss lloyd english series just the middle. east and i have to find the right blue. here. there's been a scene. here a lot of legs and torsos have been donated. to . keep. the meetings is

a new. clashes with other patients just need small parts. because they. can become through whatever you were looking to see something new and different i can't stop taking pictures route i think i'll come back with friends to show them a discovery even more. specific figured out different calibers than mine who go being very kind to see oh how beautiful. my buddies from brazil about. we fixed her up and made new clothes based on the original. start we also found all the original necklaces she's made of fabric. but yes the body is made of fabric we copied the clothes based on the original. what's wrong with this one. this is an english doll from the 1940 s. she has to be restored and she'll be given

a new torso that. could move what's inside. the straw she can even still cry. i mean that off which bush these dogs come from poor families they're made of newspapers here you can still read the new series in a museum the reader's nineties the families parents and children were newspaper sellers or paper collectors. could tell they made a mixture of paper and cobblers glue and then molded it to look like german dolls washed. sympathetic symphony he was mauled there on our money with next year's sad dolls that tell us a lot about people who didn't have very happy lives much the symmetry of equally the solution if you want to use the minority and only my own reading please know i have simply because he was responsible young thing without the look there's a piece of spanish newspaper here in the army can even see the date we lost 151 sequin to you.

over the years people from all over the world have gifted dolls to the museum located next to the hospital it used to be a primary school last. year. there are 3500 dolls in the museum's collection. make sure you are part of lisbon this cultural heritage.

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