Lisbon celebrates the Popular Saints – Festas dos Santos Populares –by decorating the city. Barely a street escapes as paper lanterns, streamers and colored lights are hung from balconies and railings.
 
The main saints' celebrated in Lisbon are St. Antonio, 12th to 13th of June, and St. Peter, 28th to 29th of June and As a symbol of affection, people present each other with little pots of basil and paper carnations on which they write poems.

There are parades in each district and everywhere there is music and dancing. In the evening, make your way up to the Alfama, where sardines are grilled outside the houses and the narrow streets fill with people in a party mood.

There is a big parade on the night of the 12 June for St. Antonio which makes its way along the Avenida da Liberdade. The old quarters of Alfama and Mouraria are particularly busy and celebrations continue until dawn.
 
On St Peter's Day there's a boat procession on the Tagus, the river which runs through Lisbon near Montijo, which is situated on the opposite side of the river from the capital, dating back to the middle ages.
 
Source. lastminute.com
 
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