Adrinson Yanes Hernández - Rua Morais Soares

Rua Morais Soares: A golden avenue in the Portuguese capital

The glow is intense. Come sunset time in the city of Lisbon, one of the most transited and busy avenues of the city lights up like a light at the end of the tunnel. That tunnel is the RuaMorais Suarez, where everybody seems so busy, they can’t take time to see what is going on around them. The truth is that there aren’t many places, at least not in Lisbon, where the Sun so consistently rests its final light of the day with such beauty and intensity. Before the last ray greets the city good night, for about 10 to 15 minutes the high buildings full of glass windows in patterns like boxes serve as a conductor for this light to flash the avenue. The pavement turns yellow, and the cars, and so does everybody’s faces. A legion of shadows cross the street from one side to another, bikes, kids, dogs, pigeons. A full sensory experience that repeats itself almost everyday for an instance before the magic goes away and the night falls upon the City of Light.