Marvila and Beato: the creative warehouses
Wine cellars turned breweries, a military bakery turned tech hub, the river at the end. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. Biblioteca de Marvila
Start at the library — a 17th-century riverside palace and grain store turned public reading room and garden. Sit in the back garden a minute; it sets the tone for a quarter that keeps reusing its old buildings.

2. Marvila warehouse strip
The *armazéns* (warehouses) along the back streets are the heart of it — old wine-and-grain stores now holding craft breweries, taprooms and galleries behind plain doors. Pick a door; the good ones rarely advertise.

3. Fábrica Braço de Prata
A former munitions works turned sprawling arts venue — concerts, a bookshop, studios, a courtyard bar. Hours are night-leaning, so daytime you'll mostly see the shell; check what's on before you build the evening around it.

4. Hub Criativo do Beato
The old Manutenção Militar — the army's vast 19th-century bakery and supply complex — is becoming Lisbon's flagship tech and startup campus. Walk the perimeter for the scale of the brickwork even where the inside isn't open.

5. Convento do Beato
Next door, the old convent the whole district is named for — now an events hall, but the bones are monastic and the riverside setting is the reason it was built here. Worth the short detour for the contrast with the bakery.

6. Beato riverside path
Drop to the Tagus and follow the edge back south-west toward the city. Container yards, old cranes, the bridge in the distance — the working river, then the towers of Santa Apolónia and the metro home.

Marvila and Beato: the creative warehouses