Bonita e tranquila praça de Lisboa , onde se situa o edifício da Câmara Municipal , também denominado Paços do Concelho de Lisboa. Palácio em estilo Neoclássico , com oito colunas que sustentam um frontão com esculturas. Após a destruição de um primeiro edifício construído logo a seguir ao terramoto de 1755 que arrasou Lisboa, surgiu o actual Palácio que data de 1880 , da autoria do arquitecto Domingos Parente de Sousa. No centro da Praça ergue-se um Pelourinho do século XVIII , que simboliza a aplicação da Justiça. A Praça apresenta-se pavimentada ao modo de "calçada portuguesa ". Como apontamento histórico , refiro que foi da varanda destes Paços do Concelho que , em 5 de Outubro de 1910 foi proclamada a República e hasteada a nova bandeira nacional de Portugal.

The Praça do Município, as it is known in Portuguese, is aptly named after Lisbon's City Hall located on the eastern side of the square. From its second floor, featuring the colonnade-styled balcony, the Republic of Portugal was proclaimed in 1910. Noteworthy is the fact that a little over 2.5 years prior to the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic, on February 1, 1908, King Carlos I of Portugal was assassinated (along with his son, an heir apparent to the throne), across the street, about 350 feet away, kitty-corner of the Municipal Square (refer to our picture). The square, a few steps west from Praça do Comércio, is a fine example of Pombaline architecture (the dominant style of post-1775 earthquake rebuilding of Lisbon) characteristic to Baixa, the downtown area where the Municipal Square is located, and Chiado. The pavement is truly amazing. Sure, the traditional black and white Portuguese pavement ("calçada portuguesa") is out there, in so many parts of the city, and not even limited to Lisbon squares only but very common to Portugal's urbanscape, but on the Municipal Square it is really beautiful creating awesome optical wavy illusions. In the middle of the square there is the Pillory of Lisbon. Erected after the 1775-earthquake it has barely if ever served as a real public defamation site, with only one person having been executed there.