Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #9 in Lisbon, Portugal
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12.5 km
337 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: 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.
Sight 2: Palacete do Conde de Agrolongo
The Palacete do Conde de Agrolongo is a historic building located in the parish of Estrela in the municipality of Lisbon, Portugal. It was designed by the architect Arnaldo Redondo Adães Bermudes, at the request of José Francisco Correia, Viscount of Sande and Count of Agrolongo in 1909. In the same year, Adães Bermudes received an honorable mention from the Valmor Architecture Prize.
Sight 3: Chafariz da Praça da Armada
The Armada Square Fountain is located in Lisbon.
Sight 4: Museu do Oriente
The Museum of the Orient in Lisbon, Portugal is a museum of Asian art. The museum opened in May, 2008, and is located in a refurbished industrial building on the Alcântara waterfront. The collection includes Indonesian textiles and shadowplays, Japanese screens, antique snuff bottles, crucifixes made in Asia for Western export, and the Kwok On Collection of masks, costumes, and accessories.
Sight 5: Scientific and Cultural Macao Museum
The Macau Scientific and Cultural Centre Museum in Lisbon is Portugal's main museum of Chinese artefacts and artworks. Made to document Sino-Portuguese relations, the museum contains over 3,500 works of art including decorative artwork, costumes, a collection of opium-smoking paraphernalia and an important extensive collection of Chinese ceramics.
Wikipedia: Macau Scientific and Cultural Centre Museum (The Macau Museum) (EN), Website, Website
Sight 6: Capela de Santo Amaro
The Chapel of Santo Amaro, also known as the Church of Santo Amaro, is located in the Portuguese parish of Alcântara, in the municipality of Lisbon, more precisely on Rua Gil Vicente and Calçada de Santo Amaro.
Wikipedia: Capela de Santo Amaro (Alcântara) (PT), Website, Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website
Sight 7: Jardim Avelar Brotero
Jardim Avelar Brotero is a public garden in Lisbon, located in the parish of Alcântara, delimited by the streets Filinto Elísio, Pedro Calmon, Jau and Gil Vicente, between the Santo Amaro sidewalk and the Tapada sidewalk. Its total area is 5 973 m² and the green of 2 433 m².
Sight 8: 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 9: 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 10: 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.
Sight 11: 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 12: Navy Museum
The Navy Museum is a maritime museum in Lisbon, dedicated to all aspects of the history of navigation in Portugal. The museum is administered by the Portuguese Navy and is located in the tourist district of Belém. It occupies a part of the neo-Manueline western wing of the Jerónimos Monastery with the National Museum of Archaeology, as well as a modern annex built to the north of the monastery.
Sight 13: National Archaeology Museum
The National Museum of Archaeology is the largest archaeological museum in Portugal and one of the most important museums devoted to ancient art found in the Iberian Peninsula. Located in Lisbon, the museum was founded in 1893 by the archaeologist José Leite de Vasconcelos. The museum is located in the western wing of the Jeronimos Monastery where the monks had their dormitory. The museum is built in the Neo-Manueline style and was officially opened in 1906.
Wikipedia: National Museum of Archaeology, Lisbon (EN), Website, Website
Sight 14: Jardim Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama Garden is a garden located in Lisbon. Its name honors the discoverer of the sea route to India, the navigator Portuguese Vasco da Gama.
Sight 15: Afonso de Albuquerque Square Garden
The Afonso de Albuquerque Garden is a garden located in Praça Afonso de Albuquerque, in the parish of Belém, Lisbon.
Sight 16: MAAT - Tejo Power Station
Tejo Power Station is a cultural centre that presents the evolution of energy with a Museum of Science and Industrial Archaeology concept, where themed and experimental exhibits live side by side with a great variety of cultural events. Located in the Belém area on terrain Lisbon usurped from the Tagus river at the end of the 19th century, in one of the city's areas with the greatest concentration of historical monuments where one can find, among others, the Jerónimos Monastery, the Belém Cultural Centre, the Tower of Belém, the Padrão dos Descobrimentos, the Portuguese Presidential Palace and Museum, the Coach Museum or the Cordoaria Nacional . A building classified as a Public Interest Project, the Electricity Museum unfolds along the perimeter of the old thermoelectric plant – the Tejo Power Station, which illuminated the city of Lisbon for more than four decades.
Sight 17: Monument to the Discoveries
The Monument of the Discoveries is a monument on the northern bank of the Tagus river estuary, in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém, Lisbon. Located along the river where ships departed to explore and trade with India and the Orient, the monument celebrates the Portuguese Age of Discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries.
Sight 18: Museum of Popular Art
The Museu de Arte Popular is an Art museum in Lisbon, Portugal.
Sight 19: Jardim António Viana Barreto
The Belém Tower Garden, officially António Viana Barreto Garden, is a garden located in Lisbon.
Sight 20: The combatants Overseas
The Monument to the Overseas Combatants is a monument located next to the Bom Sucesso Fort, in Belém, Lisbon. It was created to honor all the soldiers who fought in the African War (1961-1974), in defense of the Homeland. Created in 1991 by a team led by architect Francisco José Ferreira Guedes de Carvalho.
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