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At the historical "Baixa Pombalina" and not far from "Praça do Comércio", you will find "Casa dos Bicos". This 16th century construction was inspired by the "Palazzo dei Diamanti", a palace in Ferrara (Italy), and combines characteristics of the Renaissance style (the spikes on its façade) with Manueline windows and door frames. On its lower levels, a set of structures with ruins of Roman tanks (intended for salting and preserving fish), of the defensive "Fernandine Walls" built by King Dom Fernando I around the 14th century (and almost completely destroyed by Lisbon's 1755 earthquake) and of the old Moorish fence. Since 2012, "Casa dos Bicos" houses the "Fundação José Saramago", a museum with a permanent exhibition - "A semente e os frutos" - dedicated to honor the memory and the legacy of the brilliant writer and Nobel Prize Winner. Enjoy!…
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Date of experience: April 2019
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I didn't enter but found the facade of the house amazing. It is like small pyramids all over it. I understand the house refers to one of Portugal's most famous writers.
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Date of experience: July 2019
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Greatly enjoyed the museum and the displayed Roman ruins from the city wall on the lower level. The display of all the books Jose Saramago wrote over his lifetime is jaw-dropping.
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Date of experience: September 2018
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I wish my literature class were as interactive as the exhibits in this museum. Although it is small, the museum covers Crucial moments in saramago's personal.life as well as his literature. When you visit the museum, you will get a discount voucher to visit Casa Fernando Pessoa, which will only cost you 1 euro to visit it. The gift shop is exorbitantly overpriced, but quite complete. A must-visit if you enjoy his works …
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Date of experience: July 2018
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Jose Saramago won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His works, fiction and non, are timeless enquiries into the human condition as seen through the eyes of a man who grew up in a poor rural village, lived in Lisbon for years under a repressive dictatorship and finally survived to experience post Salazar Portugal. He is funny, clever, unexpected. The Foundation provides a complete expose of the man with an excellent series of photographs as well as a bookstore with all of his works translated into many languages.…
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Date of experience: March 2018
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