Cobbled lanes of repurposed warehouses with street art, the famous Ler Devagar bookshop, weekend market and good brunch — a genuinely pleasant half-day. The catch: it's thoroughly commercialised 'creative-industrial' and a bit Instagram-by-numbers, and it's a tram or rideshare out of the centre. Lovely, not essential.
Former textile/printing complex (origins 1846), reopened in 2008 as a creative hub of studios, shops and restaurants under the 25 de Abril bridge. · novo-monde.com
Home to the Ler Devagar bookshop, set in a former printing press and repeatedly voted one of the world's most beautiful bookstores. · lxfactory.com