We LOVE music. The Best Guide to Lisbon's Record Shops

Is Lisbon Europe's best Vinyl City?

Flur Reords is featured on Financial Times list of the best record shops in the world. Its one of the 26 amazing record shops you find i Lisbon.

I used the occasion – and my daily bike rides around town -to update my map of Lisbon’s Record Shops.

Enjoy and see you at Tings/

Lisbon is a great place to find music from across the Lusophone world, and its flea markets have plenty of gems from Cabo Verde, Angola, Brazil, and Guinea-Bissau. The best record store though is Flur, home to plenty of discs, many of them local and inspired by the former Portuguese colonies.

READ: The world’s greatest record stores FT writers and editors share their go-to venues for their vinyl fix

Lisbon is heaven for Vinyl Lovers

One of my bonuses running a hotel is all the record shops we have here in Lisbon – some of them are among the best in Europe 🙂

A few years ago you would call people like me a nerd. Today things have changed.

When Thomas wants to have break from the hotel he disappears to Carbono only 15 minutes walk from Tings Lisbon. Check his Lisbon for Vinyl Lovers map.

Lisbon’s best Record Shop Carbono is only 15 min walk from Tings. Heaven for music lovers

The trends we have seen from the consumer market where crafted beers, chocolate, coffee, olive oils, herbs and spices etc. slowly but surely are taking over the mass-produced industrialized goods have spread to other industries.

Music is one of them.

As the music has become easier and more accessible on online services like Spotify, Youtube, Soundcloud etc. a growing number of music lovers returns to the old formats. Today you don’t have to be a nerd to shop vinyl.

All though Ladidadi and Mega Store by Largo – two of our local record shops – had surrendered to Covid living in Lisbon is absolutely paradise. We still have two super shops within 5 minutes from us: Bom, Bom, Bom – Cassandra & Antoine from Paris new venue for soul, house, disco, hip hop and wine. and the small heaven for classic rock, pop and soul Groovie Records.

When Thomas wants to have break from the hotel he disappears to one of Lisbon's many vinyl shops. Check his Lisbon for Vinyl Lovers map.

When Thomas wants to have break from the hotel he disappears to Carbono only 15 minutes walk from Tings Lisbon. Check his Lisbon for Vinyl Lovers map.

On a restless rainy day one of the best ways to kill time is spending a few hours surrounded by all kinds of music formats in Carbono’s vaults.

Although I have visited the shop countless times I still love looking at their collection of funny copies and interpretations of all my favorite artists’s albums that cover the shops walls.

So to all music lovers out there – with the sun, the beaches, the wine and seafood – how can you NOT visit Lisbon?

/Thomas