Hardly any other city is so defined by the sea as Lisbon. Mare TV presents the people of the Portuguese capital who can hardly conceive of a life without salt water. The fishermen in the Tejo estuary, who live in a constant state of tension: both with regard to the competition and to the police who lie in wait for those who dare to go fishing without a license. Or the varinas - as the locals lovingly call their fishwives. These women still play a very special role and are a huge attraction in Alfama, a Lisbon neighbourhood. In the Old Quarter, the night air is filled with the lonesome sound of the fado, a Portuguese style of music, which originated here. Formerly the music of sailors and prostitutes, it now speaks to a wider audience. Further north, in the seaside resort of Estoril on the Atlantic coast, Mare TV watches the shark feeding in the world-famous Oceanarium - the "House of the Seven Seas". Finally, in the Hieronymus Monastery we visit the sarcophagus of the explorer, Vasco da Gama, Lisbon's most famous son, and see testimony of his era, such as the ivory, gold and spices that made this Portuguese metropolis extremely wealthy.
Lisbon - Born Of The Atlantic
Foreign Cultures / Travel
- Title: Lisbon - Born Of The Atlantic
- Original title: Lisssabon - Traumstadt am Atlantik
- Film by: Carola Meyer
- Format: 45', series
- Long running series: Mare TV
- Production: nonfictionplanet for NDR
- Year of production: 2006
- Language / subtitle version: German
