"Travelling to Cascais sitting on the left side of the train and returning to Lisbon sitting on the right side prolongs the feeling that little seems to have changed from the beginning of the 20th century to today. The landscape continues to be, as in postcards, the river that spreads into the sea towards the ocean.
But not for those who take the route sitting on the opposite side. There, forts and convents, houses and small palaces, woods and gardens collapsed or were destroyed, to make way for the growing urban march."
