Suggest Lisbon Portugal Holidays Visit

Our suggest for your hoiliday in Lisbon and Portugal

One of the most attractive cities in Europe! With its pleasant climate, visiting Lisbon is an experience not to be forgotten. Lisbon's fascinating architecture is an invitation to wander its wide avenues and narrow cobbled streets to the sound of the old trams crisscrossing the city. This destination also offers fantastic nightlife set against the backdrop of the beautiful River Tagus!

We divides the city into seven zones: Belém, Alfama, Baixa-Chiado, Bairro Alto, Parque das Nações, Alcântara and Nova Lisboa. This makes it easy to discover the best of what Lisbon has to offer!

Bairro Alto

BAIRRO ALTO is a picturesque working class quarter dating from the 16th century that has traditionally been the city's bohemian haunt of artists and writers.

Its grid of streets is quiet during the day, but is transformed at night into the city's vibrant nightlife quarter.

Cascais

Reputada pela sua esplêndida praia de areia branca, pelas inúmeras lojas e encantadoras ruas de comércio e pelo seu cosmopolitismo, a vila piscatória de Cascais reinventou-se e tornou-se uma refinada estância à beira-mar e um dos destinos mais sofisticados da área de Lisboa.

A cidade, situada a poucos quilómetros da foz do Tejo, encontra-se aninhada entre a soalheira baía de Cascais e a majestosa Serra de Sintra. Exibe uma atmosfera deliciosamente marítima e requintada, atraindo visitantes durante o ano inteiro.

The Baixa

The “lower town”, the Baixa (pronounced Bye-sha), is at the heart of Lisbon. It was the product of a single phase of building, carried out in less than a decade by the dictatorial minister, the Marquês de Pombal, in the wake of the earthquake that destroyed much of Lisbon in 1755. At the southern, waterfront end of the Baixa, the Praça do Comércio was the climax to Pombal’s design

Belem

The Belem district alone deserves an entire day or more, with so many glorious monuments and fascinating museums, but Alfama should also be explored unhurriedly, with its number of picturesque lanes, viewpoints, and churches

Rossio

Rossio (officially Praça Dom Pedro IV) – at the northern end of the Baixa grid – is Lisbon’s oldest and busiest square and its popular cafés are a good spot for tourists to find their feet. The square’s grandest building is the Teatro Nacional de Dona Maria II, built in the 1840s. Here, prior to the earthquake, stood the Inquisitional Palace, in front of which public hangings, autos-da-fé (ritual burnings of heretics) and even bullfights used to take place.

Castelo de São Jorge

The impressively sited Castelo is perhaps Lisbon’s most splendid monument, an enjoyable place to spend a couple of hours, wandering amid the ramparts looking down upon the city. Beyond the main gates stretch terraces, walkways, viewpoints and peacocks, all lying within heavily restored Moorish walls.

Alfama

The oldest part of Lisbon, stumbling from the walls of the castle down to the Rio Tejo, Alfama was buttressed against significant damage in the 1755 earthquake by the steep, rocky mass on which it is built. Although none of its houses dates from before the Christian conquest, many are of Moorish design and the kasbah-like layout is still much as Osbern the Crusader described it, with “steep defiles instead of ordinary streets…and buildings so closely packed together that, except in the merchants’ quarter, hardly a street could be found more than eight foot wide”.

Tram 28

I t's perhaps Lisbon's most popular activity: A ride back in time over hills and medieval streets in vintage trams that are still part of the city's public transportation network. They go past some major attractions, and we take you on a virtual tour below.

Chiado

On the west side of the Baixa is one of the city’s most affluent quarters, Chiado – the nom de plume of the poet António Ribeiro and pronounced she-ah-doo. The area suffered great damage from a fire that swept across the Baixa in 1988 and many old shops in Rua do Crucifixo were destroyed, although the original belle époque atmosphere has since been superbly re-created under the direction of eminent Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira.

Parque das Nações

Parque das Nações – the Park of Nations – the former Expo 98 site, 5km to the east of the city, remains a huge attraction for Lisboetas who come here en masse at weekends – and it’s also a popular riverfront residential area. The main highlight is the Oceanário (oceanarium), though there are plenty of other attractions, from water gardens to a cable car, as well as a diverse array of bars, shops and restaurants, many overlooking Olivais docks and the astonishing 17-kilometre-long Vasco da Gama bridge.

Alcântara

Loomed over by the enormous Ponte 25 de Abril suspension bridge, the Doca de Alcântara remains the city’s main docks, with an increasing number of luxury cruise ships calling daily. After dark, its boat-bars and warehouse conversions come into their own, its clubs and bars attracting an older, more moneyed crowd than those of the Bairro Alto. Its main attraction is the Museu do Oriente, which traces the cultural links that Portugal has built up with the Orient.

Around Lisbon

You could easily make Lisbon a base for a week or two’s holiday, taking excursions out into the surrounding area. There’s no need to rent a car; you can see almost everything by public transport. The beach suburbs of Estoril and Cascais are just half an hour’s journey away to the west, while to the south, across the Rio Tejo, are the kilometres of dunes along the Costa da Caparica. Slightly further south lies the port of Setúbal, featuring one of the earliest Manueline churches, and nearby is the resort of Sesimbra (wonderful beach: Praia da Ribeira do Cavalo, Portinho da Arrabida– a popular day-trip for Lisboetas. To the north is the Rococo Palácio de Queluz and its gardens, which you can see en route to the beautiful town of Sintra, to the northwest, whose lush wooded heights and royal palaces make up Byron’s “glorious Eden”. Bear in mind that most of the Sintra palaces are closed on Mondays, and that Queluz is closed on Tuesdays.

Other beautiful place to visit for me are:

Convento de Mafra, Cabo da Roca, Praia do Guincho, Ericeira, Praia das Maças, Praia Grande, Magoito, Azenhas do Mar

Portinho da Arrabida

As montanhas, o mar e o sol radioso de Sesimbra criam um cenário pitoresco que pode ser admirado de vários pontos altos da vila: o castelo, o promontório, o Forte do Cavalo ou a Quinta de Palames.
Estes miradouros oferecem vistas sobre uma vila de pescadores rodeada por montanhas e por um mar de águas cristalinas, que preserva ainda hoje o seu carácter original, com o seu castelo Mouro vigiando os telhados vermelhos sobre o horizonte. Sesimbra remonta a tempos pré-históricos, tendo sido sucessivamente conquistada pelos Romanos, Visigodos e Mouros.

Sintra

A magnífica vila de Sintra é toda ela mágica e cheia de esplendor – um reino romântico onde palácios majestosos, um castelo de contos de fadas, propriedades régias e mansões fascinantes emergem no meio de montes e florestas luxuriantes.Caracterizada pelo seu encanto e serenidade singulares, a vila de Sintra oferece cenários de uma beleza surpreendente, com a sua vasta serra rochosa, densa vegetação e praias imaculadas. Designada de “Serra da Lua” pelos Celtas e de “Mons Lunae” pelos Romanos, a mística serra de Sintra abrange também um vasto parque natural que se estende até à costa marítima de Cascais’.