Whether you research them or just go for holidays, you can bump into allotments all around Europe, even in Lisbon. In some ways, the allotments there are similar to the ones in the Czech Republic; in other, they seem completely different. Due to the last (and still reverberating) crisis, the allotments in Lisbon are much more utilitarian – mainly in the vicinity of large housing areas, further away from the city centre, these are the places of intense growing of vegetables. Along the officially supported allotments, there appear also informal gardens in Lisbon where there is available place – in between houses, on the hillsides, on vacant lots, by the church, etc. In the gallery, you can find photographs from our exploration of allotment gardening in Lisbon from June 2016. For more information about the strategy for urban agriculture in Lisbon and the map of existing allotments, visit this page.
