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Lisbon

Sightseeing, Attractions, Around Lisbon

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CITY TOURS

CITIRAMA (sightseeing by bus) - Hop on hop off

Tickets: 15 EUR/adult/1 day, 7,5 EUR/child/1 day, 22 EUR/adult/2 days, 11 EUR/child/2 days

Combined tickets:

Hop on Hop off + cruise on Tagus river: 32 EUR/adult, 21,5 EUR/child (15 March-October)

Hop on Hop off + fullday Fátima, Obidos, Nazaré: 55 EUR/adult/2 days, 40 EUR/child/2 days
Hop on Hop off + fullday Sintra, Cabo de Roca, Cascais, Estoril:

45 EUR/adult/2 days, 30 EUR/child/2 days

Schedule: November-March 10:00-17:00, April-October 9:00-18:00

Frequency: 30-60 minutes

Stops: Marques de Pombal - Avenida da Liberdade - Restauradores - Rossio - Terreiro do Paco/Praca do Comercio - Alcantara/Docas - National Museum of Coaches - Jeronimos Monastery - Centro Cultural de Belem - Tower of Belem - Monument of the Discoveries - Basilica da Estrela - El Corte Ingles - Eduardo VII Park

Language: English, French, Portugese

 

CITYTOUR BY NOSTALGIC TRAM (Nr. 28)

Tickets: 1,4 EUR

Schedule: Monday-Friday 5:40-23:10, Saturday 5:45-22:35, Sunday and public holidays 6:45-22:35

Starting: Martim Moniz

 

TRANSTEJO (sightseeing by boat) 

Tickets: 20 EUR/adult, 10 EUR/child

Schedule: March-October 15:00

Starting: Terminal Fluvial do Terreiro do Paco

 

CITYTOUR BY WALK

Themes: Old Town, Downtown, Cosmopolitan, Legends-Mysteries, City of Spies etc.

 

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ATTRACTIONS in lisbon

MONASTEIRO DOS JERÓNIMOS

Opening hours: May-September 10:00-18:00, October-April 10:00-17:00

(last admission 30 minutes before closing)

Tickets: 6 EUR/adult, free for children up to 14 years

Combined tickets:

Mosteiro dos Jerónimos + Torre de Belém: 8 EUR/person

Mosteiro dos Jerónimos + Torre de Belém + Palácio da Ajuda: 10 EUR/person

Getting there: Train "Cascais" to Belém station

The Hieronymites Monastery is located in the Belém district of Lisbon. This magnificent monastery can be considered one of the most prominent monuments in Lisbon and is certainly one of the most successful achievements of the Manueline style (Portuguese late-Gothic). In 1983, it was classified by the UNESCO, with nearby Belém Tower, as a World Heritage Site.

 

TORRE DE BELÉM

Opening hours: 10:00-17:00

(last admission 30 minutes before closing)

Tickets: 4 EUR/adult, free for children up to 14 years

Combined tickets:

Mosteiro dos Jerónimos + Torre de Belém: 8 EUR/person

Mosteiro dos Jerónimos + Torre de Belém + Palácio da Ajuda: 10 EUR/person

Getting there: Train "Cascais" to Belém station

Built in 1515 as a fortress to guard the entrance to Lisbon's harbor, the Belem Tower was the starting point for many of the voyages of discovery, and for the sailors it was the last sight of their homeland. It is a monument to Portugal's Age of Discovery, often serving as a symbol of the country, and UNESCO has listed it as a World Heritage monument.

 

MUSEU NACIONAL DOS COCHES

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00

(last admission 30 minutes before closing)

Tickets: 4 EUR/adult, free for children up to 15 years

Free admission Sunday and public holidays until 14:00.

Getting there: Train "Cascais" to Belém station

One of Lisbon's most visited sights, the Coaches Museum (Museu Nacional dos Coches) has the largest and most valuable collection of its type in the world. It is housed in a richly decorated 18th century royal riding school that is part of Belem Palace, illustrating the ostentation and staggering wealth of the old Portuguese elite. Each coach is more magnificent than the other, showing how coach-makers went to extraordinary lengths to make their vehicles stand out. One of the most outstanding has gilded figures on the tailgate showing Lisbon crowned by Fame and Abundance and a dragon trampling the Muslim crescent.

 

PALÁCIO NACIONAL DA AJUDA

Opening hours: 10:00-17:30

(last admission 30 minutes before closing)

Tickets: 5 EUR/adult, free for children up to 14 years

Free admission Sunday and public holidays until 14:00.

Getting there: Tram 18

Although this palace was never completed as planned due to the exile of the royal family in Brazil caused by the Napoleonic invasion, it is still one of Europe's most perfect romantic buildings. Its interior is richly filled with furniture, tapestries, statues, and extravagant decorative arts, the result of unprecedented wealth in the 18th when diamonds were discovered in the then Portuguese colony of Brazil.

 

MUSEU NACIONAL DE ARTE ANTIGA

Opening hours: Tuesday 14:00-18:00, Wednesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00, Monday closed

(last admission 30 minutes before closing)

Tickets: 4 EUR/adult, free for children up to 14 years

Free admission Sunday and public holidays until 14:00.

Getting there: Tram 15, 18

The Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga that is located in Lisbon is the most important art museum in Portugal as well as being among the most important in Europe. It is the best museum in which to understand the development of Portuguese art prior to the early nineteenth century.

 

MUSEU NACIONAL DO AZULEJO

Opening hours: Tuesday 14:00-18:00, Wednesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00, Monday closed

(last admission 30 minutes before closing)

Tickets: 4 EUR/adult, free for children up to 14 years

Free admission Sunday and public holidays until 14:00.

Getting there: Bus 104, 105

The Tile museum is well worth a visit, presenting five centuries of decorative ceramic tiles or azulejos, tracing the history and production of the art form. Its collection is the only of its kind in the world, and contains a splendid array of tiles from as early as the 15th century along with displays on how they're made. The highlight of the museum is a blue and white composition of 1300 tiles, 23m (75ft) in length, of Lisbon's cityscape made in 1738, prior to the Great Earthquake, and reputedly the country's longest tile piece.

 

OCEANÁRIO

Opening hours: winter 10:00-19:00, summer 10:00-20:00

Tickets: 12 EUR/adult, 6 EUR/child

Audio guide (Portugese, English, French, Spanish): 2 EUR

Getting there: Metro - Oriente

Opened in 1998, the Oceanário was the centerpiece of the XXth Century's last World Fair, themed "The Oceans, a Heritage for the Future", and eternally binds Lisbon to the Oceans. The central tank houses sharks, rays, chimaeras and vertebrate fish include various tuna, barracudas, groupers, moray eels, and one of the main attractions – a large Sunfish. The Lisbon Oceanarium is one of the few aquariums in the world to house a sunfish due to their unique and demanding requirements for care.

 

MUSEO DO FADO

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00-18:00, Monday closed

(last admission 30 minutes before closing)

Tickets:  3 EUR/adult, free for children

Getting there: Bus 9, 25-A, 28, 35, 39, 46, 59, 90, 107, 206, 216

The Fado Museum  is a tribute to Fado and its promoters, promoting Fado since nineteenth century Lisbon. Throughout the exhibit, visitors are invited to discover the history of Fado, from its origins in the nineteenth century up to present, the main means that urban song used to get media coverage: theatre, radio, cinema and television – the technical and historical evolution of the Portuguese guitar, Fado Houses’ environment, as well as the biographic and artistic portrait of hundreds of Fado personalities.

 

FADO NIGHTS

 

ADEGA MACHADO

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 21:15

Tickets:

Fado + 2 drinks: 12 EUR/person

Fado est + dinner: 30-35 EUR/person (depending on menu)

Getting there: Bus 58, 100

 

A SEVERA

Opening hours: 21:00

Tickets:

Fado est + dinner: 30-40 EUR/person (depending on menu)

 

CLUBE DE FADO

Opening hours: 20:00

Tickets:

Fado + snack: 10 EUR/person

Fado est + dinner: 35-45 EUR/person  (depending on menu)

Getting there: Bus 37

 

PARREIRINHA DE ALFAMA

Opening hours: 21:30

Tickets:

Fado est + dinner: 35-45 EUR/person  (depending on menu)

Getting there: Tram 28

 

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AROUND LISBON

SINTRA

Getting there: Train "Sintra Line" from Estacao do Rossio to Sintra - 40 minutes - 3,4 EUR/adult return, 1,7 EUR/child return

 

PALÁCIO NACIONAL DE SINTRA

Opening hours: Thursday-Tuesday 10:00-17:30, Wednesday closed

(last admission 30 minutes before closing)

Tickets: 5 EUR/adult, free for children up to 14 years

Combined ticket (Royal Palaces Circuit - National Palaces of Ajuda, Mafra, Queluz and Sintra):

16 EUR/person

Free admission Sunday and public holidays until 14:00.

Getting there: Bus Nr. 434 from the train station - 10:20-17:15, every 40 minutes - 7 EUR/day

Combined ticket (Royal Palaces Circuit - National Palaces of Ajuda, Mafra, Queluz and Sintra):

16 EUR/person

The Sintra National Palace is the only surviving Royal Palace from the Middle Ages. Very likely, it was built on the residence of the former Muslim wallis and since the beginning of the Monarchy the Palace was a royal residence. The main building programmes carried out by King John I, which rebuilt the Palace, and by King Manuel I, which added the now called Manueline Wing, granted the Palace its present look.

 

QUINTA DA REGALEIRA

Opening hours: February-March and October 10:00-18:30, May-September 10:00-19:30,

November-January 10:00-17:30 (last admission 30 minutes before closing)

Tickets: 6 EUR/adult, free for children up to 9 years

Getting there: Bus Nr. 434 from the train station - 10:20-17:15, every 40 minutes - 7 EUR/day

A Quinta da Regaleira is one of the most surprising of all Sintra’s monuments. Located on the outskirts of the town, it was built 1904 e 1910, in the last days of the Portuguese monarchy. This romantic property formerly belonging to the Viscondessa da Regaleira, was acquired and enlarged by António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro as his favourite country estate. He commissioned this unique project of house and landscape from the Italian set-designer and architect Luigi Manini whose genius, along with the mastery of sculptors and stonemasons.

 

PALÁCIO DA PENA

Opening hours: October-March 10:00-18:00, April-September 10:00-19:00

(last admission 1 hour before closing)

Tickets:

Palace: 5 EUR/adult, 7 EUR/child

Park: 5 EUR/adult, 3 EUR/child

Combined tickets:

Pena Palace + Moorish Castle: 11 EUR/person

Pena Palace and Park + Monserrate Palace: 11 EUR/person

Pena Palace and Park + Capuchos Convent: 11 EUR/person

All Palaces (Pena, Moorish Castle, Monserrate, Capuchos Convent): 14 EUR/person

Audio guide: 3 EUR

Free admission Sunday and public holidays until 14:00.

Getting there: Bus Nr. 434 from the train station - 10:20-17:15, every 40 minutes - 7 EUR/day

The Pena National Palace is the oldest palace inspired by European Romanticism. The Pena Park and Palace combine the search for exoticism with the fascination for nature. Among the exotic trees and native species, discover an unmissable series of monuments including the unrivalled Pena Palace. The palace is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the Seven Wonders of Portugal.

QUELUZ

Getting there: Train "Sintra Line" from Estacao do Rossio to Queluz/Belas - 15 minutes -

2,4 EUR/adult return, 1,2 EUR/child return

 

PALÁCIO NACIONAL DE QUELUZ

Opening hours:

Palace: Wednesday-Monday 10:00-17:00, Tuesday closed

Garden: May-September Wednesday-Monday 10:00-18:00, October-April Wednesday-Monday

10:00-17:00, Tuesday closed (last admission 30 minutes before closing)

Combined ticket (Royal Palaces Circuit - National Palaces of Ajuda, Mafra, Queluz and Sintra):

16 EUR/person

Free admission Sunday and public holidays until 14:00.

Getting there: 15 minutes walking from train station

The Palace and its Gardens constitute a remarkable Monument which presents us a perception of the Royal Family daily life during the second half of the 18th century. It also represents moments of extraordinary historical importance in Portuguese History and Art, documented along the circuit.

OBIDOS

Getting there: Train "Sintra Line" from Estacao do Rossio to Sintra - 40 minutes - 3,4 EUR/adult return, 1,7 EUR/child return and there change train from Sintra station to Obidos - 80 km, 2 hours - 

13 EUR/return or Rede Expresso Bus from Arco do Cego station to Caldas das Rainha- 1 hour 15 minutes - 13 EUR/return and there change bus to Óbidos - 10 minutes - 3 EUR/return

 

CITYTOUR BY WALK

Tickets: 2,5 EUR/weekdays, 4 EUR/weekends

Schedule: 9:00-17:00

Duration: 1,5 hours

Route: Town Gate - St. Mary's Square - St. Mary's Church - Almshouse Church - 

St. Peter's Church - Main Street - Castle - Jogo da Bola

Languages: English, Portugese, French

FÁTIMA

Getting there: Rede Expresso Bus from Sete Rios station to Fátima - 1,5 hours - 18 EUR/return

 

SANTUÁRIO DE FÁTIMA

Opening hours: 9:00-19:00

 

NOSSA SENHORA DO ROSÁRIO DA FÁTIMA 

Opening hours: 9:00-19:00

TOMAR

Getting there: Train from Estacao Oriente to Tomar - 140 km, 1 hour 45 minutes - 16,3 EUR/adult return, 8,15 EUR/child return

 

CONVENTO DE CRISTO

Opening hours: monastery and fortress 9:00-17:30, dining room and kitchen 10:30-11:30 and

13:30-17:30 (last admission 30 minutes before closing)

Tickets: 6 EUR/adult, free for children up to 14 years

Free admission Sunday and public holidays until 14:00.

Getting there: taxi from the train station

Including the Templar castle and the Convent of the Order of Christ -construction of which occurred between the 12th and the 17th centuries -, the monument inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List has one of the most expressive testimonies to the history of Portuguese architecture. These are the church’s Romanesque “charola”, the cloister of King D. João III, and the famous Manueline window at the Chapter House.

BATALHA

Getting there: Rede Expresso Bus from Sete Rios station to Batalha - 2 hours - 20 EUR return

 

MOSTEIRO BATALHA (Santa Maria da Vitória, best and original examples of Late Gothic architecture in Portugal)

Opening hours: April-September 9:00-18:30, October-March 9:00-17:30

(last admission 30 minutes before closing)

Tickets: 5 EUR/adult, free for children up to 14 years

Free admission Sunday and public holidays until 14:00.

Getting there: walking from bus station

The Dominican Monastery of Batalha is the most significant testimony to the Portuguese Gothic style. It was built at the end of the 14th century with patronage from King João I, in memory of the battle of Aljubarrota. This vast complex, which is a royal Pantheon, is an excellent example of the evolution of medieval architecture up to the 16th century, from the innovative experience of the late Gothic to the Manueline decorative exuberance.  Located in the historic centre of Batalha, the Monastery is inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

ÉVORA

Getting there: Train from Estacao Oriente to Évora - 110 km, 2 hours - 20 EUR return

 

IGREJA REAL DE SAO FRANCISCO

Opening hours: 9:00-13:00 and 14:30-18:00

Tickets: 1 EUR/person

Saint Francis Church was built between the end of the 15th and the early 16th centuries in mixed Gothic-Manueline styles. The wide nave is a masterpiece of late Gothic architecture. The church contains many chapels decorated in Baroque style, including the Chapel of Bones (Capela dos Ossos), totally covered with human bones.

 

SÉ CATEDRAL DE ÉVORA

Opening hours: 9:00-17:00

Free admission.

Cathedral of Évora was built between 1280 and 1340, it is one of the most important gothic monuments of Portugal. The cathedral has a notable main portal with statues of the Apostles (around 1335) and a beautiful nave and cloister. One transept chapel is Manueline and the outstanding main chapel is Baroque.

 

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