Campo Grande, Lisbon

Campo Grande is a neighborhood and former Portuguese civil parish (freguesia) in the municipality of Lisbon.

[1] In the 12th century, the area was a zone of pastures, vineyards, farms and vegetable gardens and marked one of the entrances and exits to the city of Lisbon.

This name was probably due to the presence of a small hermitage of the Invocation of the Three Holy Kings dating from the 16th century.

Diogo Inácio de Pina Manique, known for his role as Intendant-General of the Police, gave the space a new lease of life with an annual fair, which began in 1778.

On the land neighbouring the garden, in the manufacturing boom of the 19th century, a number of industries began to spring up, mainly dedicated to beer, wool, chemicals, diamond cutting and rope making.