Jose Saramago won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His works, fiction and non, are timeless enquiries into the human condition as seen through the eyes of a man who grew up in a poor rural village, lived in Lisbon for years under a repressive dictatorship and finally survived to experience post Salazar Portugal. He is funny, clever, unexpected. The Foundation provides a complete expose of the man with an excellent series of photographs as well as a bookstore with all of his works translated into many languages.
Free archeological expo on the first floor shows walls of ancient Lisbon and a little city history, and history of this famous building. Upstairs is a museum devoted to Saramago, Nobel Prize winner, important writer.
Beautiful and very unique building. Can only comment on this as we did not go inside. Very interesting architecture.
Visited only because of the reference to Jose Saramago, one of the great creative talents of the 20th century, and found a wonderful interior in a reconstructed renaissance exterior, with a free ground floor exhibit of exposed city walls and aspects of Portuguese history in Roman Times.
The ground floor is free and explains the Roman ruins on the site. Upper floor there is a free, only worth it if you enjoy portugese literature or authors
