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Along the route, details of some of the most striking and terrible episodes that took place in the capital will be revealed.

The perfect program for all fans of horror stories, mystery and dark episodes in history is back.

If you have always dreamed of playing the role of the famous British detective Sherlock Holmes, you will have the opportunity to discover some of the most notable crimes perpetrated in the capital.

The “Lisbon Crimes” tour takes you to discover the places where some of the most terrible and bloody episodes in the Portuguese capital took place.

Along the way you will learn about stories of psychopaths and murders that happened in the city. These are bloody and frightening events — but real. During the walk you will pass through emblematic places in Lisbon and hear stories of cases and terrible events that changed the course of Portugal’s history.

The regicide of King D. Carlos, the 1755 earthquake, the Távora trial, the Lisbon Ripper and the records of the Inquisition, will be some of the events covered. And, in order not to clash with the reported facts and maintain the dark atmosphere of the narrative, the tours are carried out at night.

Each tour lasts an hour and a half and starts at 9:30 pm from the meeting point, Arco da Rua Augusta (in Baixa). The next night tours are scheduled for the 3rd, 4th, 17th, 18th and 25th of February. Tickets cost €12 per person

During four centuries of slavery, more than 12 million African slaves were transported. Portugal was responsible for the trafficking of 5.8 million people, the vast majority were sent to Brazil.

Naky Gaglo makes the attendance call to make sure that the almost 20 people joining the African Lisbon Tour have found the right group.

They arrive from various latitudes. Americans, English, Belgians and Brazilians. The meeting point is at Terreiro do Paço in Lisbon, or in this context, the place that represents the arrival of many slaves to Portugal across the Tagus.

“It is one of the means of circulation by which many Africans arrived on the boats, where they were disembarked. So Terreiro do Paço is one of the places and there are many more.”

Naky Gaglo, guide for the African Lisbon Tour, is from Togo. He arrived in Lisbon almost five years ago and realized that the city’s streets were empty of a history that needed to be rescued.

“What’s missing, not only in Portugal but in many European countries, is a physical presence of African history. I’m talking about the names of streets, museums, statues that don’t exist.”

To talk about slavery and how it was done in Portugal and Europe, the Togolese went looking for more information and equipped himself with knowledge from the work of Isabel Castro Henriques and Pedro Pereira Leite, creating a guided tour to provide an alternative to the various tourist routes that already exist in Lisbon.

“Most of the tours here are about Portuguese history. So I had the idea of creating something that would be an alternative to what already exists in the country,” he says.