Description: This is My City is a show about what cities mean to the people who live in them.
Rita Machado, a Lisbon native, has worked as a TV producer since she was seventeen but really wants to live a stress-free life on a farm. She sings along to pop music when she’s driving her tiny car skillfully around Lisbon’s narrow streets and she enjoys showing foreigners her hometown. She also likes weekend getaways to her family’s summerhouse in Sintra and she loves Lisbon’s many lookout points. Rita dislikes opportunism, arrogance, cream cheese, butter and everything else white that you can eat.
Francisco Ferreira is from Évora, Portugal and has lived in Lisbon since 1999 working in television and fashion. As observed by Rita, the life of Francisco is ‘party, party, party’. As observed by Francisco, there’s nothing quite like a shot or two of Jägermeister on a Friday night. Francisco likes the theater, dinner with friends and dancing the night away in one of Lisbon’s many clubs. Fran is too modest to say it but he actually knows every single person in Lisbon.
This is where we rested our weary heads in Lisbon. Great place, very central. Rooms are small but well designed with different themes. Feels more like a hotel than a hostel. A really cool place!