Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #10 in Lisbon, Portugal
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13.7 km
359 m
Explore Lisbon in Portugal with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in LisbonIndividual Sights in LisbonSight 1: Réplica da Pedra de Dighton
The Dighton Rock is a 40-ton boulder, originally located in the riverbed of the Taunton River at Berkley, Massachusetts. The rock is noted for its petroglyphs, carved designs of ancient and uncertain origin, and the controversy about their creators. In 1963, during construction of a coffer dam, state officials removed the rock from the river for preservation. It was installed in a museum in a nearby park, Dighton Rock State Park. In 1971, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
Sight 2: Capela de São Jerónimo
The Hermitage of Restelo, alternately Chapel of Saint Jerome, is a hermitage in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém, in the municipality of Lisbon. The religious architecture has Manueline and revivalist Neo-manueline elements, consisting of a single-nave structure with a vaulted ceiling and surrounded by a modernist landscape, as evidenced by a preoccupation with choice of plants and manicured environment, in order to create a zone of protection for the hermitage.
Wikipedia: Restelo Hermitage (EN), Website, Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website
Sight 3: National Museum of Ethnology
The National Museum of Ethnology is an ethnology museum in Lisbon, Portugal. The museum holds in its collections the most relevant ethnographic heritage in Portugal. It is responsible for the safeguarding and management of nearly half a million items.
Wikipedia: National Museum of Ethnology (Portugal) (EN), Website
Sight 4: Igreja da Memória
Memory Church is a church in Ajuda (Lisbon), Portugal. It holds the Mausoleum of the Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal It is classified as a National Monument.
Wikipedia: Igreja da Memória (EN), Website, Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website
Sight 5: Palácio Vale-Flor
Pestana Palace is a luxury hotel in Lisbon, Portugal, in the Alcântara district. Housed in the historic Palácio Vale Flor, Pestana Palace is the flagship luxury hotel of the Pestana Group, one of Portugal's premier hotel groups. It is a member of The Leading Hotels of the World.
Sight 6: Chafariz da Praça da Armada
The Armada Square Fountain is located in Lisbon.
Sight 7: Estrela Basilica of the Sacred Heart
The Estrela Basilica or the Royal Basilica and Convent of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, is a minor basilica and ancient carmelite convent in Lisbon, Portugal.
Sight 8: Casa Fernando Pessoa
Casa Fernando Pessoa is a cultural center in Campo de Ourique of Lisbon, Portugal.
Sight 9: Aqueduto das Águas Livres
The Águas Livres Aqueduct is a historic aqueduct in the city of Lisbon, Portugal. It is one of the most remarkable examples of 18th-century Portuguese engineering. The main course of the aqueduct covers 18 km, but the whole network of canals extends through nearly 58 km.
Sight 10: Capela do Rato
The Chapel of Rato is the name by which the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Bonança, later the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, located in Calçada Bento da Rocha Cabral, in Lisbon, is commonly known.
Sight 11: Casa-Museu Mestre João da Silva
The João da Silva Museum House is located at Rua Lieutenant Raul Cascais, to Rato, in Lisbon.
Sight 12: Sinagoga Shaaré Tikva
The Lisbon Synagogue is a historical synagogue situated in the civil parish of Santo António, in the municipality of Lisbon, Portugal.
Sight 13: Museu Medeiros e Almeida
The Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida is one of the most important Portuguese private decorative arts collections, gathered by the businessman, collector, and benefactor António Medeiros e Almeida (1895–1986).
Sight 14: Cinemateca
Cinemateca Portuguesa is a public institution dedicated to the diffusion and preservation of the filmic arts in Portugal and, in particular, of Portuguese Cinema. It functions as a film archive and promotes daily screenings of worldwide films at its headquarters, now located on Rua Barata Salgueiro in Lisbon. It was established in 1948.
Sight 15: Teatro Variedades
The Teatro Variedades was a theatre in Lisbon, capital of Portugal, that offered variety or revue shows of the type known in Portugal as Teatro de Revista. Opened in 1926, it has not been used since 1992, but as of 2020 there were active plans to construct a new theatre on the site, incorporating elements of the existing building.
Sight 16: Teatro Maria Vitória
The Teatro Maria Vitória is a theatre in Lisbon, capital of Portugal. It is located in the theatre district of Parque Mayer.
Sight 17: Parque Mayer
Parque Mayer is a theatrical and entertainment district in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. Originally created as a summer amusement park, it at one time had four theatres, although one was demolished in 2015 and another has not been used since 1992. Successive proposals have been made for upgrading the area, but none has yet come to fruition.
Sight 18: Cineteatro Capitólio – Teatro Raúl Solnado
The Teatro Capitólio, officially called Cineteatro Capitólio - Teatro Raul Solnado, is located in Parque Mayer, in Lisbon, Portugal. It was opened in 1931. Because of its early modernist design it has been recognized as the first building of the Modern movement in Portugal and was declared a "Building of Public Interest" in 1983. Suffering from water damage, the theatre was closed in the 1980s and only finally reopened in November 2016 after extensive restoration.
Sight 19: Igreja de São José dos Carpinteiros
The Church of São José dos Carpinteiros is a church of Baroque and Pombaline architecture located on Rua de São José, in Lisbon.
Sight 20: Mártires da Pátria (Março de 1994)
The field of the martyrs of the Fatherland, currently known by its previous name of Campo de Santana, is a square of the parish of Arroios in Lisbon. It occupies the upper part of the slope that separates the two converging valleys in the city center, which correspond to Avenida da Liberdade and Almirante Reis Avenue.
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