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November 20, 2025 49 mins

Entre 1884 e 1901, Lisboa assiste à concretização de um sonho: a construção de uma rede de ascensores e elevadores que ousavam vencer as íngremes colinas que tanta moléstia causavam aos lisboetas e sofrimento ao transporte de tração animal. Inspirados nas inovações importadas dos Estados Unidos e no centro da Europa.

O primeiro a ser projetado foi o da Glória, mas acabaria por caber ao do Lavra , na colina oposta da Avenida da Liberdade, as honras de pioneiro da capital. Dois anos mais tarde, a 24 de outubro de 1885, no dia da abertura do Elevador da Glória, compareceram algumas das figuras mais importantes da cidade. As fotografias e gravuras da época mostram-nas, com chapéu alto e fatos de gala, a empreenderam a viagem inaugural dos Restauradores ao Bairro Alto. 

Estrela, Chiado, Bica, Mouraria e Graça passariam a estar servidas por elevadores e ascensores, alguns descrevendo por vezes curvas surpreendentes para uma tecnologia concebida para ruas tendencialmente ortogonais, causando espanto, muitos percalços e alguns acidentes.

Neste episódio de ‘Histórias de Lisboa’, o jornalista Miguel Franco de Andrade conversa com o investigador João Firmino da Costa sobre a extraordinária viagem dos elevadores e ascensores de Lisboa.

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