The Pessoa Room

Fernando Pessoa spent most of his life in Lisbon, working as a translator by day and writing under four distinct literary identities by night — not pen names, but complete beings, each with their own biography, handwriting, and philosophy. Alberto Caeiro saw the world with radical simplicity. Ricardo Reis wrote Horatian odes. Álvaro de Campos was a wild modernist. He published almost nothing in his lifetime; after his death, a trunk contained over 25,000 manuscript pages. This room is for travellers who carry multiple versions of themselves — and need a quiet corner in which to think.