Feira Popular returned to Lisbon with an unexpected challenge – NiT
Feira Popular returned to Lisbon with an unexpected challenge
Carousels, bumper cars and children’s amusements. Reminisce about the past as you solve puzzles in the city’s new escape room.
We all remember the smell of churros and plenty, the music of bumper cars and the screams that came from the carousels at the Feira Popular. It was inaugurated on June 10, 1943, in José Maria Eugénio Park, and then moved to Entrecampos. In 2003, much to the displeasure of Lisbon residents, it closed.
Despite being the same thing for a long time, you will be pleased to know that the Escape Hunt company will open on September 1st a new escape room inspired precisely by the Popular Fair.
It is in downtown Lisbon that you will find this new 100% original room “difficult, but extremely dynamic and cooperative”, reveals NiT Marta Pereira Duarte, project manager of Escape Hunt Lisboa.
In this escape room you won’t feel the frenzy you feel when you’re in Lisbon, nor will the chicken arrive with the smell of sardines and chicken mixed with popcorn and cotton candy. Instead, you’ll find an empty, long-abandoned fairground. But, it seems that there is a glimmer of key in the air: finding all the attractions again, is the element to turn on the party spirit.
Visually very different from what you would expect in a traditional escape room, A Escape Hunt promises to keep the puzzles and make any lover of this type of games live the experience intensely until the last second. “Visitors should expect many attractions and surprises typical of the Fair, with puzzles in the mix and good doses of laughter”, guarantees Marta Pereira Duarte.
And he adds: “Since he doesn’t bring the Fair in the background again, we pay him this little tribute with the theme that he asks for exactly that: to connect”.
If you know original, it is to try this concept really that the brands only open on the 1st of September. However, from August 22nd it is possible to make a pre-booking through the place from the company.