Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Lisbon, Portugal

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Number of sights 29 sights
Distance 8.4 km
Ascend 367 m
Descend 378 m

Experience Lisbon in Portugal in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in LisbonIndividual Sights in Lisbon

Sight 1: Museu Militar de Lisboa

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Museu Militar de Lisboa

The Military Museum of Lisbon is a museum unit of the Portuguese Army located in Largo dos Caminhos de Ferro in Lisbon, Portugal, in front of Santa Apolónia Station.

Wikipedia: Museu Militar de Lisboa (PT)

451 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Igreja de Santo Estêvão

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Igreja de Santo Estêvão Georges Jansoone / CC BY 2.5

Saint Stephen Church is a church in Alfama district of Lisbon, Portugal. It is classified as a National Monument.

Wikipedia: Igreja de Santo Estêvão (Lisbon) (EN), Website, Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website

385 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: Igreja de São Brás e de Santa Luzia

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Igreja de Santa Luzia is a church in Lisbon, Portugal. It is classified as a National Monument.

Wikipedia: Igreja de Santa Luzia (Lisbon) (EN)

265 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Igreja do Menino Deus

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Igreja do Menino Deus is a church in Portugal. It is classified as a National Monument. It was designed by the architect João Antunes.

Wikipedia: Igreja do Menino Deus (EN), Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website

356 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen Belvedere

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The Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Viewpoint, formerly the Graça Viewpoint, is located in the parish of São Vicente (Graça), in the former churchyard of the Convent of Graça in Lisbon.

Wikipedia: Miradouro Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (PT), Website

826 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 6: Igreja de São Cristóvão e de São Lourenço

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The Church of São Cristóvão is a church located at the top of the Escadinhas de São Cristóvão, in Lisbon. Due to the strong need for preservation, the Church has been added to the biennial list of World Monuments Watch.

Wikipedia: Igreja de São Cristóvão (Lisboa) (PT)

370 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Igreja da Madalena

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Church of the Magdalene is a church in Lisbon, Portugal. Its portal is classified as a National Monument.

Wikipedia: Igreja da Madalena (EN)

181 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Galerias Romanas

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The Roman galleries of Rua da Prata or cryptoporticus of Rua da Prata, are an architectural structure that is located in the basement of Rua da Prata and Rua da Conceição, extending to Rua do Comércio, in downtown Lisbon.

Wikipedia: Galerias Romanas da Rua da Prata (PT)

188 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Rua Augusta Arch

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The Rua Augusta Arch is a stone, memorial arch-like, historical building and visitor attraction in Lisbon, Portugal, on the Praça do Comércio. It was built to commemorate the city's reconstruction after the 1755 earthquake. It has six columns and is adorned with statues of various historical figures. Significant height from the arch crown to the cornice imparts an appearance of heaviness to the structure. The associated space is filled with the coat of arms of Portugal. The allegorical group at the top, made by French sculptor Célestin Anatole Calmels, represents Glory rewarding Valor and Genius.

Wikipedia: Rua Augusta Arch (EN)

282 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: Pelourinho de Lisboa

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Pelourinho de LisboaBernt Rostad from Oslo, Norway / CC BY 2.0

The Pillory of Lisbon is a pillory situated in the municipal square of the Portuguese capital, classified as a National Monument.

Wikipedia: Pillory of Lisbon (EN), Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website

558 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 11: Santa Justa Lift

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The Santa Justa Lift, also called Carmo Lift, is an elevator, or lift, in the civil parish of Santa Justa, in the historic center of Lisbon, Portugal. Situated at the end of Rua de Santa Justa, it connects the lower streets of the Baixa with the higher Largo do Carmo.

Wikipedia: Santa Justa Lift (EN), Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website

146 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Museu Arqueológico do Carmo

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The Carmo Archaeological Museum is located in the ruins of the Carmo Convent in the city and district of Lisbon, Portugal.

Wikipedia: Museu Arqueológico do Carmo (PT), Website , Website

5 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 13: Largo do Carmo

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Largo do Carmo

Largo do Carmo is a square located in Lisbon.

Wikipedia: Largo do Carmo (Lisboa) (PT)

198 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Muralha Fernandina

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Muralha FernandinaGuy MOLL from Faro, Portugal / CC BY 2.0

The fence Fernandina, also known as walls Fernandinas from Lisbon, are the walls of the city of Lisbon corresponding to the expansion of the Old César Age, carried out by D. Fernando I in the year 1373.

Wikipedia: Muralhas fernandinas de Lisboa (PT)

94 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Teatro da Trindade

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The Teatro da Trindade is a theatre in the Chiado neighbourhood of Lisbon, Portugal, built in the 19th century. It is one of the oldest theatres in Lisbon still in operation.

Wikipedia: Teatro da Trindade (EN)

163 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: Igreja do Loreto

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The Church of Loreto is located next to Largo do Chiado, on the corner of Rua da Misericórdia, in Lisbon. The author of the project to build this church was José da Costa e Silva. With the earthquake of 1755 the temple suffered great damage and was rebuilt in 1785.

Wikipedia: Igreja do Loreto (PT)

319 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 17: Museu-Igreja de São Roque

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The Igreja de São Roque is a Catholic church in Lisbon, Portugal. It was the earliest Jesuit church in the Portuguese world, and one of the first Jesuit churches anywhere. The edifice served as the Society's home church in Portugal for over 200 years, before the Jesuits were expelled from that country. After the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, the church and its ancillary residence were given to the Lisbon Holy House of Mercy to replace their church and headquarters which had been destroyed. It remains a part of the Holy House of Mercy today, one of its many heritage buildings.

Wikipedia: Igreja de São Roque (EN), Facebook , Website

494 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 18: Estação Ferroviária de Lisboa - Rossio

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The Rossio Railway Station is a railway station in Lisbon, Portugal, located in the Rossio square. The station was formerly known as Estação Central and that designation still appears in its façade. Trains gain access to the station, which is in the central urban area of Lisbon, through a tunnel which is over 2.9 km (1.8 mi) long.

Wikipedia: Rossio railway station (EN), Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website

162 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 19: Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II

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The Queen Maria II National Theatre is a theatre in Lisbon, Portugal. The historic theatre is one of the most prestigious Portuguese venues and is located in the Rossio square, in the centre of the city.

Wikipedia: D. Maria II National Theatre (EN), Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website

166 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 20: Igreja de São Domingos

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Church of St. Dominic is a Catholic church in Lisbon, Portugal. It is classified as a National Monument.

Wikipedia: Igreja de São Domingos (Lisbon) (EN), Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website

352 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 21: Teatro Politeama

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The Teatro Politeama is a theatre in Lisbon, Portugal that opened in 1913.

Wikipedia: Teatro Politeama, Lisbon (EN), Website

57 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 22: Coliseu dos Recreios

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The Coliseu dos Recreios is a multi-purpose auditorium located in Lisbon, Portugal.

Wikipedia: Coliseu dos Recreios (EN), Website

293 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 23: Museu Nacional do Desporto

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The National Sports Museum exhibits testimonies of the history and culture of sport and its material and scientific development. Cristiano Ronaldo's boots, Nelson Évora's boots or the Grand-Bi, the predecessor of the bicycle, are some of the pieces of the collection. Inaugurated at Palácio Foz (Restauradores) on July 12, 2012, the year in which Portugal celebrated 100 years of participation in the Olympic Games, the space resulted from the public invitation addressed to sports federations to make known the heritage that athletes and various sports have left. The Museum's facilities at Palácio Foz closed to the public in December 2022, for conservation works on the building.

Wikipedia: Museu Nacional do Desporto (PT)

455 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 24: Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara

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Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara

The Jardim de São Pedro de Alcântara is a garden located in Lisbon, in the parish of Misericórdia. It was built in 1864, on two terraces.

Wikipedia: Jardim de São Pedro de Alcântara (PT)

283 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 25: Museu Maçónico Português

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Museu Maçónico Português

The Masonic Museum Portuguese is a museum founded in 1984, in Lisbon, in Bairro Alto, being installed in the headquarters of the Grand Orient Lusitano, a Masonic obedience founded in 1802.

Wikipedia: Museu Maçónico Português (PT)

414 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 26: Igreja de Santa Catarina

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The Church of Santa Catarina, also referred to as the Church of the Convent of the Paulistas, the Parish Church of Santa Catarina and the Church of Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai, was built in the seventeenth century, located in Calçada do Combro, parish of Misericórdia, in Lisbon,

Wikipedia: Igreja de Santa Catarina (Lisboa) (PT)

321 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 27: Verride Palácio de Santa Catarina

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Verride Palace, or the Palace of Santa Catarina, is an 18th-century Portuguese palace located in Lisbon, Portugal.

Wikipedia: Verride Palace (EN), Website

473 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 28: Banhos de São Paulo

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The São Paulo Baths Building, which is currently the headquarters of the Order of Architects, was a public bathhouse built between 1850 and 1858, according to the plans of Pedro José Pézerat, located in the neighborhood of São Paulo, in the parish of Misericórdia, in Lisbon.

Wikipedia: Banhos de São Paulo (PT)

172 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 29: Jardim Sá da Bandeira

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The Praça Dom Luís Garden is a garden in Lisbon. It has a monument to Marquês Sá da Bandeira in the center.

Wikipedia: Jardim Sá da Bandeira (Lisboa) (PT)

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