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Adjacent to the cathedral is the lovely Igreja de Santo António da Sé, named for Lisbon’s patron saint, St. Anthony of Padua.
His two most Borgesian works are The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984), an hommage to the great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, and The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989), in which a proofreader inserts a single word--"not"--into a single sentence in a book he's checking, thereby questioning every celebrated theme of Portuguese history.
A wide pedestrian shopping street, Rua Augusta, leads from the Praça do Comércio through a stately arch to the central square of Lisbon, Praça Dom Pedro IV, better known as the Rossio (the Common).
Vila Franca de Xira (45 km/28 miles down the Tagus in the direction of Lisbon) is a modest town, but the center of Portuguese bullfighting.
It leads to several destinations south of Lisbon popular with Portuguese and international visitors alike.