We love everything related to gastronomy, and here are eight examples of streets named after spices from our kitchen. These are the spicy streets of Lisbon.
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Sugar Street
A Sugar Street is currently the most vibrant industrial area in the city marvila neighborhood.
It was named after the city council at the end of the 19th century. XIX, but was previously known by a variant of this sweet name, “Rua Direita do Açúcar”.
This is because the street took its name from a refined sugar factory that had existed there since the 19th century. XVIII.
Rua do Alecrim
Artery that connects the Chiado area to the Cais do Sodré area, the Rua do Alecrim was first called Rua Direita do Alecrim in 1693.
Its name derives from the Ermida de Nossa Senhora do Alecrim, founded in the area in 1641 by . Anna de Vilhena, a noble widow from the island of São Miguel.
Rua da Pimenta and Travessas da Canela, do Gengibre, da Malagueta and do Açafrão
O Parque das Nações, as one of Lisbon’s most recent neighborhoods, it has several streets named after spices, a product that captivated the Portuguese in the time of the Discoveries, during the 15th and 16th centuries.
The names of these streets derive from Expo 98, which had “The oceans: a heritage for the future” as its theme.
Rua da Pimenta, which runs parallel to the Tagus River and joins Rua do Bojador to Cais das Naus, is one of the new arteries that Expo 98 brought and its name pays homage to one of the main spices that the Portuguese traded after discovering the sea route to India.
Perpendicular to Rua da Pimenta there are four crosswalks, whose names also celebrate four spices that the Portuguese brought from the other side of the world: cinnamon, ginger, chilli peppers and saffron.
All four of these crosswalks connect Passeio das Tágides to Rua da Pimenta.
Campo das Cebolas
Right next to Praça do Comércio and situated between Alfama and Avenida Infante Dom Henrique, the Campo das Cebolas is one of the areas of the city that has been recently renovated.
The reference to Campo das Cebolas already appears in the in the parish description of the parish of Santa Maria Mayor before the 1755 earthquake.
It is believed that the name comes from the vegetable trade that took place at the end of the 19th century. XV in this place, nicknamed “Mercado da Ribeira Velha”.
The onion, as one of the most widely used foods and condiments in our country, has always been in the spotlight and has therefore lent its name to this broad “field”.
