Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Lisbon, Portugal
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Experience Lisbon in Portugal in a whole new way with our free 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 LisbonSight 1: Palácio Sinel de Cordes
The Sinel de Cordes Palace is a palace in Campo de Santa Clara, São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, Portugal.
Sight 2: Panteão Nacional
The Church of Santa Engrácia is a 17th-century monument in Lisbon, Portugal. Originally a church, it was converted into the National Pantheon, in which important Portuguese personalities are buried. It is located in the Alfama neighbourhood, close to another important Lisbon monument, the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora.
Sight 3: Museu Militar de Lisboa
The Military Museum of Lisbon is a museum unit of the Portuguese Army that is located in Largo dos Caminhos de Ferro in Lisbon, Portugal, in front of Santa Apolónia Station.
Sight 4: St. Michael's Church
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
Sight 5: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen Belvedere
The Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Viewpoint, formerly the Miradouro da Graça, is located in the parish of São Vicente (Graça), in the old churchyard of the Church of the Convent of Graça in Lisbon.
Wikipedia: Miradouro Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (PT), Website
Sight 6: Taborda
The Teatro Taborda is a theatre building in the centre of Lisbon, Portugal. It was built in 1870 according to plans by the architect Domingos Parente da Silva. It is named after the actor Taborda.
Sight 7: Igreja do Menino Deus
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
Sight 8: Porta do Sol
The Porta do Sol was an old city gate of Lisbon, inserted in the Moorish fence of the city.
Sight 9: Igreja de São Brás e de Santa Luzia
Igreja de Santa Luzia is a church in Lisbon, Portugal. It is classified as a National Monument.
Sight 10: Igreja de Santa Cruz do Castelo
The Igreja de Santa Cruz do Castelo is a Roman Catholic church in the castle district of Castelo, Lisbon, Portugal.
Sight 11: Palácio Vila-Flor
It was initially known as Casas da Costa do Castelo and later Palácio da Costa, and only later was it called Palácio Vila Flor. It owes its name to the fact that at the end of the Monarchy, at the beginning of the century. It was bought and the last counts of Vila Flor lived there, to whom it currently belongs.
Sight 12: Igreja de São Cristóvão e de São Lourenço
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.
Sight 13: Igreja da Madalena
Church of the Magdalene is a church in Lisbon, Portugal. Its portal is classified as a National Monument.
Sight 14: Galerias Romanas
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.
Sight 15: Rua Augusta Arch
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.
Sight 16: Dom José I
The equestrian statue of King José I is located in Praça do Comércio, in the city of Lisbon, Portugal, and is by the sculptor Joaquim Machado de Castro. It is a remarkable sculptural work: it is the first equestrian statue made in Portugal, and it is also, in this country, the first sculptural monument on the public road dedicated to a living person. It was also the first statue of its size to be cast from a single jet, in Portugal, and one of the first to be cast in the world.
Sight 17: Pelourinho de Lisboa
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
Sight 18: Largo do Carmo
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Largo do Carmo is a square located in Lisbon.
Sight 19: Museu Arqueológico do Carmo
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
Sight 20: Santa Justa Lift
The Santa Justa Lift, also called Carmo Lift, is an elevator, or lift, in the civil parish of Santa Maria Maior, 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
Sight 21: Igreja de São Domingos
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
Sight 22: Casa do Alentejo
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The Alverca Palace is a palace located in the parish of Santa Justa, in Lisbon, Portugal.
Wikipedia: Palácio Alverca (PT), Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website
Sight 23: Teatro Politeama
The Teatro Politeama is a theatre in Lisbon, Portugal that opened in 1913.
Sight 24: Coliseu dos Recreios
The Coliseu dos Recreios is a multi-purpose auditorium located in Lisbon, Portugal.
Sight 25: Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II
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
Sight 26: Estação Ferroviária de Lisboa - Rossio
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
Sight 27: Museu Nacional do Desporto
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, predecessor of the bicycle, are some of the pieces in 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 the various sports have left. The Museum's facilities at Palácio Foz closed to the public in December 2022, for conservation works on the building.
Sight 28: Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara
The Garden of São Pedro de Alcântara is a garden located in Lisbon, in the parish of Misericórdia. It was built in 1864, on two terraces.
Sight 29: Museu-Igreja de São Roque
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.
Sight 30: Museu Maçónico Português
The Portuguese Masonic Museum is a museum founded in 1984, in Lisbon, in Bairro Alto, and is housed in the headquarters of the Grand Orient Lusitano, a Masonic obedience founded in 1802.
Sight 31: Igreja de Santa Catarina
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.
Sight 32: Verride Palácio de Santa Catarina
Verride Palace, or the Palace of Santa Catarina, is an 18th-century Portuguese palace located in Lisbon, Portugal.
Sight 33: Museu da Farmácia Lisboa
The Pharmacy Museum of Lisbon is a museum dedicated to the history of pharmaceutical activity. It was established in the building of the National Association of Pharmacies, in the Santa Catarina district of the Portuguese capital, and was inaugurated in June 1996. A branch of the museum was created in the city of Porto in 2010. The first pieces that formed the Lisbon museum were those donated from the private collection of Dr. Salgueiro Basso. These were followed by several donations from other pharmacists and institutions, following a request sent out by the association, which were augmented by purchases worldwide. The collection represents over 5,000 years of health history.
Sight 34: Palácio do Manteigueiro
The Palácio do Manteigueiro is a former noble palace in the municipality of Misericórdia, Lisbon, Portugal. The address is Rua da Emenda, 87-91; Rua da Horta Sêca, 13-19
Sight 35: Luís de Camões
The Camões Monument is a monument located in Luís de Camões Square in the Chiado neighbourhood of Lisbon, Portugal. The monument comprises a tall bronze statue of Luís de Camões, the national poet, on a lioz limestone pillar surrounded by eight smaller statues of leading figures of Portuguese culture and literature in the Age of Discoveries: Fernão Lopes, Pedro Nunes, Gomes Eanes de Zurara, João de Barros, Fernão Lopes de Castanheda, Vasco Mouzinho de Quevedo, Jerónimo Corte-Real, and Francisco de Sá de Meneses.
Sight 36: Palácio Quintela
The Quintela Palace, also known as the Palace of the Baron of Quintela and Count of Farrobo, is a palace located in the parish of Misericórdia, in Lisbon, built on the initiative of the family of the Barons of Quintela for their residence at the end of the eighteenth century.
Sight 37: Igreja do Loreto
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, having been rebuilt in 1785.
Sight 38: Teatro da Trindade
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.
Sight 39: Muralha Fernandina
The Fernandina Fence, also known as the Fernandine Walls of Lisbon, are the walls of the city of Lisbon corresponding to the extension of the old fence of the era of Caesar, carried out by King Ferdinand I in 1373.
Sight 40: Basilica of Our Lady of the Martyrs
The Basilica of Our Lady of the Martyrs Is a Catholic church located on Rua Garrett, in Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal in the parish of St Mary. Made in the baroque and late neoclassical style, it is an example of the quality of religious architecture in the context of the Pombaline rearrangement of Lisbon.
Sight 41: National Theatre São Carlos
The Teatro Nacional de São Carlos is an opera house in Lisbon, Portugal. It was opened on June 30, 1793 by Queen Maria I as a replacement for the Tejo Opera House, which was destroyed in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. The theatre is located in the historical center of Lisbon, in the Chiado district.
Wikipedia: Teatro Nacional de São Carlos (EN), Website, Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website
Sight 42: Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea - Museu do Chiado
The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), founded in 1911, is a contemporary art museum located in the historic center of Lisbon. The MNAC is housed in part of the former Convent of São Francisco da Cidade, which also houses, in the remaining area of the convent complex, the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and the National Academy of Fine Arts.
Sight 43: Banhos de São Paulo
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.
Sight 44: Jardim Sá da Bandeira
The Dom Luís Square Garden is a garden in Lisbon. It has a monument to Marquês Sá da Bandeira in the center.
Sight 45: Museu das Comunicações
The Museu das Comunicações is a technology museum in Lisbon, Portugal. Dedicated to promote the study, conservation and dissemination of the historical, scientific and technological communications heritage, The museum focuses on the History of communication, particularly in Portugal
Sight 46: Palácio da Flor da Murta
The Palácio da Flor da Murta is located at Rua Poço dos Negros, 158, parish of Misericórdia, Lisbon.
Sight 47: Museu da Marioneta
The Museu da Marioneta has been located since November 2001 in the Convent of Bernardas in Lisbon, Portugal, establishing itself as the first museum in Portugal entirely dedicated to the interpretation and dissemination of the history of puppetry, covering the history of this art form across the world, presenting the different types of puppets and the different approaches they allow, with special emphasis on Portuguese puppets.
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