Lisbon - Travessa do Saliter

In the Travessa do Saliter - a short way from the Avenida da Liberdade - can be found an entrance to the so called Parque Mayer. This "pleasure park" has existed here since 1922 on land once belonging to the Lima Mayer family, whose city palace still remains in the neighboring Rua do Saliter (no. 1).

The Parque Mayer contains four theaters, constructed in the 1920s and 1930s: Maria Vitória, Variedades, Capitólio and ABC. Particularly in the 1940s and 1950s the extraordinarily well loved revistas were performed here. These were a special form of lively musical theater, peculiar to Lisbon, with shades of satire and even veiled criticism of the times of dictatorship. The first Portuguese films, produced in the 1930s, took on