in the light of climate change. for cosmic see. what's in store. for the future. e.w. dot com can make a city. in sight clear cut or. lisbon has become a must see tourist destination the city's annual 4500000 visitors now strip its population by around 9 to one international investors are pumping 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 large as 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 rap so tailormade gloves and iron door knob. says elnora massaging. sophie attempt at 0 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. there is a few simple this is. a good example of what's happening all around the city

including in the old town quarter of by ship steam the entire apartment block is being turned into a hotel or hostel it's means safe season and a traditional shop on the ground floor is closing down. those who are from cairo is known for its traditional stores. sophia says that many commercial tenants except 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 up. so she is team includes art historians on

a byetta and lucy liu. they are visiting their drug. in the old town quarter by shop. i'm simply a temp at all from the city council from the shops with history programme we'd like to go over a few things with you we need a lot of information for the application. you are the manager it's not me and tony fellow and you francisco riposte so it's my store thank you for school means that we need documents lease agreements that old photos anything related to the pharmacies history. possible to study. for this is the entry in the property register from january 893. to the day we have the original arches restored if it is used to be an avatar according to what we've been told. we think we ought to ya feel good just for the

show but we have also uncovered the original flaw i was shown live on their work yet only with a personality to say why aren't all the shelves the same. those over there have no doors you. shall think that let's go see what is you know we have this is where the counter used to be that's why the floor is so worn here all over there was the store room. and the shelves were different options and he was do you have old objects in the store. to feel to feel good when you. watched this you know. why are just really stands. kind of needs a little bit of very much. a sandwich charge according to what. was it

like. from that to that if you take a photo with itself we have a lot of old customers who still want to buy things by weight and volume by the fish game has always pushed some of been getting the same bottles refilled for 20 years almost. all chances are any products made here in lisbon. not only is a lisbon based company. but we're not out. there that we have much of it was my own thing but if you. 2 look at the algorithm but. you know it's not. the lamp. that is the wallet. these rainbow knits i made in germany.

where. i can't hear a thing. is that my the light is so thin that the one time i was there i think. we also have and sorry to portugal's famous polishing wax and cortisol a silver cleaner. this mill takes me back to my childhood we used to wear s.p. drills that matched our uniforms and we'd skate around the freshly waxed floors but it's a lovely smell if you know that if i stayed there a smells would stay with us our whole lives it is like the shops catapult us back into the past the smells and images. of. for decades rents were frozen the building is rundown and the apartments empty.

almost every day investors turn up at the door the owners sons they could make a killing. i think we'll see whether it's always that hanging over us like a cloud of fear the building will be sold and everything will change that will have to leave all this behind things but it hasn't happened yet as i now. if the pharmacy is recognised as a shop with history it could be a lifesaver but that has yet to be determined. next door there's a habit dasher ish so if you tell them about the scheme. i want but. this year 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 so many in fact that he hasn't got any to be heading out. 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 this in 2012 in the midst of the economic crisis portugal began to issue what are known as golden visas 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 gold and 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 me and golden visa yet it equaled in these in.

the language on the side. mine is vietnamese some investors have made millions buying and selling property is 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 the rents in just 3 years the number of holiday apartments for tourist says risen by 1080 percent. here tourists encounter other tourists in the ice thing hopeless there's no laundry hanging out of the windows to dry there's no activity here anymore. to the city's soul isn't what it was the sounds of day to day life are gone the residents chatting to one another outside the door 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 brick did like in the traditional booksellers street whore daughter crim in the affluent yaddo district. study it was so for your temporary restraining

order me for money 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. empties from he was asking for $14000.00 euros rent each month. from think it was just a few. it's not me. that says he's like i can tell you just. keep a close eye on cases like this. and. they're very vigilant making sure that no law is broken. but your honor district is particularly historically significant home to palaces and other buildings

constructed after the earthquake of 1755. but the mill large 18th century town houses are being split up into cubby holes for tourists the interiors of palaces and apartments are being destroyed in the process. you say. to squeeze it's our job to find a balance. been shouldn't start to feel like an artificial city. you see that 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 hardest. so for your temper under colleagues have had to move office now they work in an attic space surrounded by air b.n. b. apartments and building sites. and he lean in hanging over the balcony railings is white monochrome rather than a colorful mix. property or protection it's a contradiction it's impossible to reconcile sophia temporarily prefers not to comment. she lives with her family 20 kilometers north of lisbon on the banks of the tigris river.

and their 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. in. sofia's team is very committed to saving the old shops also in districts of the city built in the 20th century like have any to do it all. covered here was a t. and coffee shop established in 1902 to 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. closer to the president's going to recreate plans according to the customer's wishes. we always grind the beans in front of them. and that's a benefit of shops like these one of the. oh we have 15 different plans. as you called this is where we keep track of the customers names and their favorite plans. this custom is called fair he wrote down. amount of beans to use from angola from the cape fat 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 gland. 0. 0 road orders both sales assistant and co owner. 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 a. lot of money if we knew what do you want us to commit you somehow to slow grind or work. combat this machine has grinding stones 2 stones on top of one another says yes like a graymail. points are given for tradition. mates and what's this a quarter door or more. in the book this is this is a real museum piece 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 in the business i think that i speak for all of us when i say that this shop has everything required to be recognised as a shop with history. in lisbon city hall it's make or break time for the coffee store and the pharmacy so for you to barrow is on her way to the meeting. he is always present when decisions are. so for your temper or went on a buy year or describe what's special about these shops. what. if a sociologist is there to give an independent assessment. of. the

mental causes 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. it's a battle between the old and the new. battle to save lisbon from degenerating into a mere amusement park. over

140 stores have been designated historic shops up to not. feel like. i'm. not. one of them is they have a dash or a visual its name says it all portugal's most famous fashion designers. 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 had

a very strong aesthetic sense. if. the fantastic world of portuguese sardines couldn't be more different to shoppers a symbol of the new lisbon. tradition doesn't have an easy time of it says so for you temporarily. 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 compact that means it's going to the shows that will simulate the century old jewelry shop now has a completely different function that is that all believe everything was in its original state. that the counter the tables the decorations

and so if you were out i mean i could see it was so beautiful. in these it's frustrating to see something like i know you've. ever faced a song because 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 souvenir 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. so for your predator of for years the entire project is at

risk. 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 accused. sophia complera wants to pass her love for these old stores on to her daughter before it's too late. they're going to the dollar hospital a tiny shop in the heart of lisbon it was established in a team 3. sure that. people. still cry.

when. we charge 41 year rose to remove the stuffing and make a new body the in-patient treatment last sporty 6 weeks. in the union. the city historian under daughter received where the dollar hospitals director money where no quarterly yet it never goes into much the distance 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. says this is unless you really want to almost all just the details their date from the 18th century they survived the earthquake he says and we're just here seems to come from the hospital chapel which i like to say our hospital was built on top of another one female.

we leave the consulting room and head for the operating rooms on the 1st full. i'll show you the room where the really old dolls are restored and repaired by. baton rouge the surgeon's room some limits and yes the most important specialist most of the specialists and 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 dog isn't as perfect as at birth we have dolls here that are 200 years old. but it will be our walk with the prompt it is our community there are people who donate their hair and we use that to make wigs for the dolls. 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. lawyer mitch seavey case the mind. i have to find the right blue pill here. and there which we received. a lot of legs and torsos have been donated. to the man. who. usually was. commuting disabuse me. national team other patients

just need small parts. because they. can become through whatever you want to look i see something new and different i can't stop taking pictures i think i'll come back with friends to show them i discover even more. closely because if you could have different calibers from my life you can see oh how beautiful. my buddies from brazil about ya know 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. clue 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 goes these dogs come from poor families they're made of newspapers here you can still read their lives easily museum the readers. the families parents and children were newspaper sellers or paper collectors pavel could tell they made a mixture of paper and cobblers glue and then molded it to look like german dolls watched all the supporting me you from all they don't want mommy to go next they're sad dolls that tell us a lot about people who didn't have very happy lives must be some entity of the equivalent of this solution if you're going to use the minority and only way i'm reading please no i just include the confusion on springer if they know that look there's a piece of spanish newspaper here in the army can even see the date we lost 951 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. because. there are 3500 dolls in the museum's collection. total are part of lisbon's cultural heritage.

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