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Mouraria's neighbour, daily-life dense, gentrifying — coworking in Lisbon's most international district.
Anjos is the inner-city district between Mouraria and Arroios, north-east of Baixa. Once a working-class quarter, it gentrified rapidly from 2015 onwards on the back of cheap rents, the proximity to Mouraria — Lisbon's most multicultural neighbourhood, with over 50 nationalities — and a creative migration from Cais do Sodré pushed by rising central-city prices. The result is one of the most demographically interesting districts in Lisbon — a daily mix of long-time residents, recent migrants from across South Asia, China, and Brazil, and a growing layer of creative and digital professionals working from a handful of new coworking spaces.
The neighbourhood sits along the Avenida Almirante Reis spine, the city's main multicultural commercial corridor. The 2008 municipal regeneration programme — which made Mouraria the flagship of Lisbon's urban renewal strategy — spilled into Anjos within a few years, bringing specialty coffee shops, art galleries, and the first formal coworking operators to the district. LACS Anjos on Rua Febo Moniz is the main pipeline-listed venue; the membership profile is creative-leaning, multilingual, and skewing younger than the city average.
Office-business presence is light — most working professionals here are freelancers, small studios, or remote employees of European companies. The district is more known for production-side creative work than for corporate services. Casa Independente at Largo do Intendente and the Cinemateca a few minutes south anchor the cultural calendar.
Metro: Anjos station (Green Line) is direct to Baixa-Chiado (3 stops) and Saldanha (with one change). Intendente station (Green Line) is the southern alternative entry to the district.
Walking: Mouraria 5 minutes south; Baixa-Chiado 12 minutes south; Saldanha 12 minutes north on a moderate climb.
Airport: 18 minutes by Metro (change at Alameda).
Largo do Intendente — the renovated central plaza (formerly notorious, redeveloped in the 2010s as part of the Mouraria regeneration), now the pedestrian heart of the district.
A Vida Portuguesa Intendente — the former Viúva Lamego tile-factory building converted into a flagship Portuguese-design store, a frequent stop for visiting clients.
Casa Independente — the multi-room cultural centre on Largo do Intendente, hosting concerts, exhibitions and a popular outdoor café.
Avenida Almirante Reis — the multicultural commercial spine running south through the district, home to Lisbon's most concentrated Bangladeshi, Chinese, Indian and Pakistani business community.
Anjos has gentrified significantly since 2015 (and especially since the 2008 municipal regeneration programme that put neighbouring Mouraria at the centre of Lisbon's urban renewal). It's now broadly safe during the day and early evening. Late-night side streets towards Mouraria can feel gritty — standard urban precautions apply, but most coworking members find the daily rhythm comfortable.
Anjos is cheaper, denser, more multicultural, and less polished. Cais do Sodré has the food-and-bar density and the riverside; Anjos has the daily-life texture. Both attract similar member profiles — the choice is mostly about budget and aesthetic preference.
Yes — the post-2018 wave brought specialty coffee to the district. Notable spots include Comoba, Hello, Kristof's Anjos satellite, and a string of natural-wine bars on Rua dos Anjos that open mid-morning for laptop work.
Over 50 nationalities live in Mouraria, the former Moorish ghetto that stretches down to Baixa. Avenida Almirante Reis — running through Anjos and into Mouraria — hosts Lisbon's most concentrated Bangladeshi, Chinese, Indian and Pakistani business community. Coworking members in Anjos work alongside that daily-life texture.
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