{"id":19655,"date":"2018-10-18T11:19:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T10:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/portugalafora.com\/?p=19655"},"modified":"2024-08-19T16:26:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:26:26","slug":"sabe-a-origem-do-nome-alfama-um-dos-bairros-mais-cool-do-mundo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portugalafora.com\/en\/sabe-a-origem-do-nome-alfama-um-dos-bairros-mais-cool-do-mundo\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you know the origin of the name Alfama, one of the coolest neighborhoods in the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alfama<\/strong>. Have you ever heard this name? If you live in Portugal, certainly yes. If you have already visited the country, too. If you study history, arts or architecture, for example, too. Alfama is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Lisbon and is considered one of the 25 oldest neighborhoods cool<\/em> of the world. The neighborhood is known for its narrow, centuries-old streets, with buildings so old that they tell stories of those who passed by them. But the question now is: what is the origin of the name of one of the most famous neighborhoods in the world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alfama, the Tagus and a transatlantic, to contrast Photo: CML<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The existence of Alfama dates back to Moorish times, and in this Muslim period there were hot springs, called \u201cal-hamm\u00e3\u201d in Arabic. This is where the name Alfama derives from. Currently, they are no longer found in the region, which is a great shame. But if you want to go to the place where it is known for sure where some of them were, be sure to go to the Largo do Chafariz de Dentro<\/em>, where there were three of these sources.
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Largo do Chafariz de Dentro, in Alfama Photo: LisbonLux<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Arabic influence on the Portuguese and Spanish languages is quite visible and left a considerable legacy for these languages, if we take as an example the many words that begin with the suffix \u201cal\u201d such as lettuce, village, tailor and\u2026 Alfama, among others. But do you know why some words start like that, with \u201cal\u201d? Because the fixed \u201cal\u201d at the beginning of words represents the definite article in the Arabic language! The \u201cal\u201d accompanies any noun, masculine or feminine, singular or plural.
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Alfama. Ser\u00e1 que j\u00e1 ouviu este nome? Se mora em Portugal, certamente que sim. Se j\u00e1 visitou o pa\u00eds, tamb\u00e9m. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[200,187,631,188,418,632],"class_list":["post-19655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curiosidades","tag-alfama","tag-lisboa","tag-mouros","tag-portugal","tag-turismo","tag-visitar-portugal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portugalafora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portugalafora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portugalafora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portugalafora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portugalafora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/portugalafora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19659,"href":"https:\/\/portugalafora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655\/revisions\/19659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portugalafora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portugalafora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portugalafora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portugalafora.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}