4-bedroom home in a quiet area of Lisbon

The parish takes its name from the former Quinta de Santa Clara. The parish territory lies in the old “saloia” area, which supplied the city with its estates and cultivated fields, remaining so until the first decades of the 20th century. The name Ameixoeira is said to have come from a Moor named Mixo who lived there. Until the 18th century it was called Mixoeira. It was a place chosen by Lisbon residents to spend the summer months, and a “resting” retreat for writers, politicians and liberal professionals. From 1901 to 1928, on the Estrada Militar, the “fashion” for duels in defense of honor took hold. In Charneca there is still the old Terreiro of the Fair of St. Bartholomew, Lisbon’s last fairground. Famous in both parishes was “Vinho do Termo”, which supplied the taverns of the capital; its vines were grown mainly on the Quintas da Torrinha and da Mourisca. A practice that lasted there until the first decade of the 20th century was the “waiting for bulls”, on the Calçada de Carriche. Another popular custom among Lisbon’s workers and bourgeoisie was the “going to the market gardens” on Sundays. In the first decades of the 20th century, the estates began to be abandoned by their owners, who later authorized the use of courtyards and uncultivated land for the building of “shacks”, beginning the area’s decline. In 1959 a large part of Charneca’s territory was transferred to the parishes of Lumiar and Olivais. Today the “old centers” of Ameixoeira and Charneca coexist with 20th-century built-up areas such as Torres do Lumiar and Paço da Ameixoeira, and with social housing such as Alto do Chapeleiro, Galinheiras, Grafanil, Quinta da Torrinha and part of Alta de Lisboa. Merger of the former parishes of Charneca and Ameixoeira.