📘 Flâneur [fla:ner]: (n.) A person who idly roams the city in order to experience it; deliberately aimless.
The flâneur was a popular French figure in the 1800s. He was the quintessentially modern man, of sophisticated character, who spent his days strolling city streets and inhabiting cafés, with no other purpose than to observe, from a metaphorical distance, the ways and manners of an ever-busier society around him.
The Portuguese Flâneur takes you on virtual walks around Portugal.