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Best boutique hotels in Lisbon
Lisbon, with its cobbled streets, bougainvillea-clad squares and seven steep hills (with the signature yellow trams rattling up and down), suits small boutique properties that maintain a sense of character and a feeling of a home as opposed to a hotel. Unlike so much of the world, this is a city that has not gone global; it remains resolutely Portuguese, looking out to sea, with its back to the rest of Europe and its identity very much intact.
Below you’ll find a line up of the finest small, stylish and independent stays tucked into hidden corners of the capital, like Hotel das Amoreiras, set in one of Lisbon’s prettiest squares and looking out to the 18th-century aqueduct, or Memmo Príncipe Real, reached down a tiny alleyway that opens onto a view right across the red roofs to the Tagus River. Or secret oases like Palácio Príncipe Real, where a lush garden transports you to a fragranced, purple-hued world of wisteria and jacaranda. Little gems, all of them, and all of them waiting for visitors. These are the best boutique hotels in Lisbon.