Praça Luís de Camões sits at the hinge between two of Lisbon's most storied neighbourhoods, Chiado and Bairro Alto, topped by a bronze statue of the poet whose one good eye (he lost the other fighting in Morocco) seems fixed permanently on the river that carried Portugal's explorers to the edges of the known world.

Camões wrote "Os Lusíadas," the epic poem that essentially turned Vasco da Gama's voyage into Portugal's founding myth, and the square named after him has served as a gathering point for revolutionaries, artists and café regulars ever since.

In 1988, a fire tore through the surrounding Chiado district, gutting eighteen buildings and reshaping the neighbourhood. The reconstruction, led by the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, became a project of national significance.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours use the square as a pivot point between Chiado's literary history and Bairro Alto's bohemian traditions, tracing the neighbourhood's reinvention from the ashes of the 1988 fire through Siza Vieira's careful restoration.