Atlas Lisboa’s mission: We are not your typical online guide to the city. In a town increasingly run on hype, as Lisbon now is, we like to separate the excellent from the merely loud and well-funded, and it’s what we’ve been known for since 2014.

We’ve built our platform from our explorations of Lisbon’s hidden charms and unspoiled places, and meeting people who are true originals in the areas of art, design, literature, gastronomy, sport, commerce, and, yes, even fortune-telling.

This is a chronicle of these people and places and your link to them.

If you want to reach expats, immigrants, smart travelers, and English-speaking Portuguese, contact us. 

Who We Are

Ellis Dixon is a rock climber and karaoke expert from Memphis and New York City. In 2012, she came to Lisbon and fell in love with the light, the saudade, the sandwiches, and the people. She felt compelled to write about it all.

O Vadio is an editor and a rapscallion.

Eden Flaherty managed to escape the clutches of the British Isles and make his way to Lisbon, where he can be found trudging the streets of the city.

Atlas’ Contributors

Bogdan Kamuta and Begemot are not his real names: he’s a political refugee from the U.S., born in the Bronx with Soviet roots. When not drawing (his background is in art), writing, or taking photos, Mr. Kamuta can be found teaching English or in a number of Lisbon’s bars, parks, apartments, venues, playing the bass guitar, or doodling in his sketchbook. Sometimes he plays footie, but he’s not very good.

David Soares has been meaning to leave Lisbon for a while. In the meantime, he writes about it.

Gloria Dominguez is a writer and researcher on housing and the political economy. Her area of focus is on the impact of tourism on the local housing market and city planning policy. Gloria holds a Master’s in Human Geography from IGOT – University of Lisbon, and received her bachelor’s degree in Global Economics from the University of California Santa Cruz.

Pearlie Tan is a freelance writer and editor from Australia. She lives on a small organic farm in Alenquer. Her homemade products for bumps, bruises, scrapes, and other incidents are carried in Lisbon.