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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
Themes: Old Town, Downtown, Cosmopolitan, Legends-Mysteries, City of Spies etc.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Opening hours: 21:00
Tickets:
Fado est + dinner: 30-40 EUR/person (depending on menu)
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
Getting there: Train "Sintra Line" from Estacao do Rossio to Sintra - 40 minutes - 3,4 EUR/adult return, 1,7 EUR/child return
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.
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.
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.
Getting there: Train "Sintra Line" from Estacao do Rossio to Queluz/Belas - 15 minutes -
2,4 EUR/adult return, 1,2 EUR/child return
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.
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
Getting there: Rede Expresso Bus from Sete Rios station to Fátima - 1,5 hours - 18 EUR/return
Opening hours: 9:00-19:00
NOSSA SENHORA DO ROSÁRIO DA FÁTIMA
Opening hours: 9:00-19:00
Getting there: Train from Estacao Oriente to Tomar - 140 km, 1 hour 45 minutes - 16,3 EUR/adult return, 8,15 EUR/child return
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.
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.
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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