Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #15 in Lisbon, Portugal
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5.7 km
251 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: Forte do Alto do Duque
The Fort of Alto do Duque is located 75 meters above sea level at the southwestern tip of the Monsanto Forest Park, in the parish of Ajuda, in Portugal's capital of Lisbon. Built at the end of the 19th century as part of Lisbon's Campo Entrincheirado defensive ring around the city, with the intention that it, together with the Fort of Bom Sucesso, would defend against attacks along the River Tagus, the fort is now headquarters of the criminal investigation division of the Polícia de Segurança Pública (PSP) in Lisbon.
Wikipedia: Fort of Alto do Duque (EN), Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website
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: Parque Recreativo dos Moinhos de Santana
The Moinhos de Santana Recreational Park is a park located in Lisbon, in the parish of Belém, in the vicinity of the Monsanto Forest Park. It owes its name to the presence of two windmills, the Moinhos de Santana, in the highest part of the space.
Sight 5: Jardim das Damas
Jardim das Damas is a green space in the parish of Ajuda in Lisbon. It has elements of baroque design and has a gazebo.
Sight 6: Monastery of the Hieronymites
The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in the parish of Belém, in the Lisbon Municipality, Portugal. It became the necropolis of the Portuguese royal dynasty of Aviz in the 16th century but was secularized on 28 December 1833 by state decree and its ownership transferred to the charitable institution, Real Casa Pia de Lisboa.
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