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The main museums to visit in Lisbon

Lisbon offers a number of museums to visit quite recommendable. If you go to the Portuguese capital, it is practically obligatory to go to one of the best museums on the long list that the city has to offer. We already talked about the first of them, the Fado Museum, in a previous article. Here we make a small list of those that we think are the best but surely you would recommend another one, which one? The most famous, the Fado Museum One of the museums that can be visited is the Museu do Fado, where the visitor will…

A walk with the best things to see in Lisbon in one day. 24 hours in the capital of Portugal

A walk through the Baixa, the most commercial district of Lisbon

Located in the flat lower part between the hills where the neighborhoods of Alfama and Bairro Alto meet, we find the most commercial area of ​​Lisbon. It is one of the liveliest neighborhoods and the first place visited by almost everyone who arrives in the Portuguese capital. It is also known as the Baixa Pombalina, in honor of the Marquis of Pombal, the architect of the reconstruction of Lisbon after the earthquake that almost completely destroyed it in 1755 and in which a third of its population died. Restauradores Square and Rossio Square Our walk through the Baixa can begin…

Visit the best viewpoints to admire the city of Lisbon

One of the most interesting features of the capital city of Portugal is being able to visit the multitude of viewpoints that adorn it. They are found throughout the city, since thanks to its topography, it allows us to contemplate wonderful and beautiful views of all of Lisbon. Here we will talk about several viewpoints that are worth visiting to enjoy enchanting views. Surely from them you will have the best views of the city. You even have a Tour of the Lisbon viewpoints that takes you through the best ones where you can enjoy the roofs of Lisbon. The…

The Castle of San Jorge. Watching Lisbon from above

The São Jorge Castle in Lisbon is one of the best-known monuments in the capital of Portugal. The castle stands on the top of the hill of San Jorge, the highest in the entire city, and you can enjoy its view both day and night. Getting to the Castle of San Jorge is not easy at all since you will have to climb some steep slopes to the top of the hill. But for a few years there has been an elevator that leaves you near the top and makes the climb more bearable. History of the São Jorge Castle…

How to get to know Chiado and the Bairro Alto in Lisbon

These two neighborhoods united to the point of almost not being able to differentiate the borders of one and the other, are two emblematic neighborhoods of Lisbon. Only by the Praça de Luis de Camões, or Largo de Camões, which was one of the most important stages of the Carnation Revolution, delimits the borders between one neighborhood and another. What to see and what to do in Chiado Until Chiado there are several ways to get there. From the Rossio there is a street with a steep slope through which we can get there. But whoever wants to avoid the…