It was one of the interventions framed in the new life of downtown Lisbon in the scope of the program ZER ABC but it will go ahead anyway, because it is part of A Square in Every Neighborhoodthe Lisbon City Hall program that has been creating new pedestrian squares in the city. The Largo do Conde Barão, near Santos, will gain new life.
The Largo do Conde Barão is generically circumscribed to the north by the descending built front of the Bica hillside, centered on its three adjoining Palaces - Conde-Barão de Alvito Palace, Almada Carvalhais Palace and Alarcão Palace - and to the south by the flat built front of the Boavista embankment; in the "enlarged" space that emerges between the well defined axes of Calçada Marquês de Abrantes, from Madragoa, and Rua da Boavista, from Cais do Sodré.
According to the information available at program page A Square in Every Neighborhood: "The intervention covers all the public space of the square, well delimited by its dense built fronts north/south, facing the Palaces, complemented in the surroundings to the east and west by the last block of Boavista Street, from its widening after the Beco Francisco André, and by the first block of Marquês de Abrantes Calçada, ending at Avenida Dom Carlos I, coming from the city center, as transitional spaces between these distributor axes and the square itself. This intervention also includes the requalification and functional reconversion of the entire Travessa do Cais do Tojo, as well as the final segments of Travessa dos Pescadores and Rua da Silva, at their intersection with Calçada Marquês de Abrantes and Largo do Conde Barão, respectively, in order to unify the public space of the entire Conde Barão 'square'".
The work, scheduled to last 180 days, will increase the pedestrian area, introducing new sidewalks and more comfortable sidewalk, improve accessibility and safety for pedestrians, reorganize parking and reduce the excessive occupation of public space by cars, create new areas for recreation and leisure and more green areas.
