Construction Bar

Construction Bar in Santos is Lisbon's dedicated leather and bear venue — the anchor of a Santos neighbourhood that has developed into the city's leather and fetish scene hub. The bar's character is deliberately non-commercial: dark, industrial in aesthetic, oriented toward the leather and bear communities that are not primarily interested in circuit culture or drag performance. The Santos location, south of Bairro Alto toward the river, gives the venue a neighbourhood character appropriate to its community — removed from the tourist-heavy Príncipe Real and Bairro Alto streets, a bar for people who know where they are going. Construction Bar has built an international reputation within the leather travel community and draws visitors from across Europe for themed leather events and its consistent programming. For visitors from the leather and bear communities, it is the first Lisbon address.