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Miradouro do Adamastor
Adamastor Miradouro is known essentially because of its esplanada. With its interesting statue of Adamastor, this is the ideal spot for observing the ferry-boats making their way back and forth, whilst enjoying the magnificent view of the Cristo Rei statue and the 25 de Abril Bridge. |
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Aqueduto das Águas Livres
The Águas Livres Aqueduct has been supplying the town of Lisbon of its waters since 1748 and it is considered to be one of the most remarkable examples of 18th-century Portuguese engineering. |
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Museu da Carris
Com o seu Museu, a Carris permite ao visitante a realização de uma empolgante viagem no tempo, composta por duas zonas distintas. A primeira zona relata a evolução da empresa através de documentos e pequenos objectos, bilhetes, uniformes entre outros. |
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Museu de Arqueologia
A exposição permanente, que alberga a maior colecção de mosaicos romanos em museus portugueses, apresenta duas exposições temáticas: os ‘Tesouros da Arqueologia Portuguesa’ e o núcleo de Antiguidades Egípcias. |
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Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga
The wonderful National Museum of Ancient Art is situated in the historical centre of Lisboa, on the Rua das Janelas Verdes, from where one has an astonishing panorama over the superb Tejo river estuary, housing in the interior some of the most beautiful and important works of art in the Country. |
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Casino de Lisboa
Located right in the centre of the beautiful Parque das Nações, in the modern part of Lisboa, on a business, tourist, and contemporary environment, with excellent accesses, the Lisboa Casino, inaugurated on the 19th of April 2006, is a place of election for shows, games and animation and for its wide Restaurant offer. |
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Botanic Garden of Ajuda
The garden houses many national and international species, which the main highlight is the Dragon Tree original of Madeira island with over 400 years old.
Beyond all the botanical species and features, the Garden also has leisure, recreation and contemplation purposes, housing as well the “aromatic garden”, with aromatic and medicinal plants. |
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Tropical Botanic Garden
Este Jardim, com uma forte vocação didáctica, é considerado "base indispensável ao ensino" por ser "indispensável o exemplar vivo para que a demonstração seja rigorosamente cientifica e educativa, para que o aluno não fique imaginando somente como são os animais e os vegetais, mas tenha a noção viva da realidade". |
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Castle of São Jorge
The Castle received important conservation and improvement interventions in the 1940’s and on the end of the 1990’s, which endowed the monument, nowadays one of the greatest highlights and most visited places in the beautiful Lisboa town. |
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Belem Cultural Centre
The Belém Cultural Centre is endowed with technical departments, auditoriums, shops, restaurants, exhibition galleries, gardens, pedagogic activities, museums, among many other amenities serving the arts, in one of the most beautiful and historic places in Lisboa, side by side with the legendary Tejo river. |
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Lift of Santa Justa
The Santa Justa Elevator, also known as Carmo Elevator, is one of the most interesting monuments of Lisboa historical centre. Conceived by Raoul Mesnier du Ponsard in a Gothic Revival Romantic style, and inaugurated in 1902, it serves to link downtown Lisbon with the Largo do Carmo by means of a viaduct between Rua do Ouro and Rua Nova do Carmo. |
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Coliseu dos Recreios
Considerada uma das salas de espectáculo mais importantes de Lisboa, o Coliseu dos Recreios é um monumento histórico da capital Portuguesa, situado no coração da cosmopolita Baixa Pombalina, na bonita Rua das Portas de Santo Antão. |
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Estrela Minster
The Basílica is also the own pantheon of the Queen Mary I of Portugal, the only queen of the of Bragança Dynasty that is not buried in the São Vicente de Fora Monastery. |
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Cold Greenhouse
The Estufa Fria is a garden and a greenhouse situated in the heart of Lisboa, housed right in the Park Eduardo VII, in the place where, in the 19th century, existed a quarry that was reused by a modest gardener to house diverse vegetables species, that would be served in the gardening plan of the Liberdade Avenue. |
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Nations Park
Situated in the Northeastern side of the town of Lisboa next to the Tagus estuary, Parque das Nações (Nations Park) is almost an “urban centre inside an urban centre“: it is an extensive leisure, commercial and residential area. |
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Jerónimos Monastery
The magnificient Jerónimos (Hieronymites) Monastery is considered to be the most prominent monument of Lisbon and certainly the most successful achievement of the Manueline architecture style. |
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Nations Park Marina
O cais de eventos e ponte cais reúnem todas as condições para a realização de festivais náuticos, actividades marítimo turísticas, promoções e boatshows. A ponte cais permite ainda a acostagem de vários tipos de embarcações, sejam navios de cruzeiro ou históricos. |
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Monsanto Forest Park
Parque Florestal de Monsanto is the largest green space in the heart of Lisboa, with an area of almost 1000 hectares of woodland, usually known as the “Lisboa lung”, providing wonderful sights over Lisboa and its special light. |
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City Museum
This Museum presents a rich collection, along with the also very rich history of Lisboa, comprising collections of archaeology, painting, drawing, ceramics, among many others that testify the town’s history since the remote pre-historical times up until the beginning of the 20th century. |
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National Coaches Museum
This is one of the most visited museums in Portugal, presenting an exceptional collection of ceremonial vehicles from the Royal family, dating from 17th Century to late19th Century, considered to be the most remarkable collection in the world of this kind. |
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Electricity Museum
Located on the bank of the wide Tejo river, on the privileged quarter of Belém, in the heart of Lisboa, the Electricity Museum occupies the building of the important Central Tejo that supplied the town of Lisboa with electricity since the beginning of the 20th century. |
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Fado Museum
O Museu conta a história do Fado, desde os becos e vielas às tabernas e salões aristocráticos, ao teatro de revista, alicerce do Fado Canção, a rádio, a gravação discográfica, o cinema, a televisão e as Casas de Fado. |
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Navy Museum
Situated on the western side of the wonderful Jerónimos Monastery, in the privileged quarter of Belém, in Lisboa, the Marinha Museum aims for the preservation and information of the rich Portuguese maritime heritage. |
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Far East Museum
The entertainment activities are diversified and will count with concerts, theatre, dance, cinema, workshops, puppets, debates and conferences, organized in thematic cycles. |
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Lisbon Oceanarium
The Lisboa Oceanarium, a big aquarium and biology museum that aims to alert for the protection need of the wonderful and important natural heritage that are the ocean, is situated on the northern side of Lisboa, on the modern area of the Parque das Nações. |
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The Monument to the Discoveries
Padrão dos Descobrimentos, or Monument to the Discoveries, is a monument that celebrates the Portuguese who took part in the Age of Discovery of the 15th and 16th centuries. |
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Jerónimos Monastery
The magnificient Jerónimos (Hieronymites) Monastery is considered to be the most prominent monument of Lisbon and certainly the most successful achievement of the Manueline architecture style. |
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National Palace of Ajuda
The Museum has a wide royal collection of decorative arts, dated from the 15th to the 20th century, from the collection of the old Ajuda Royal Palace. |
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Se Cathedral of Lisbon
This Cathedral started to be built in 1147, when the city of Lisboa was reconquested from the Moors, by the first king of Portugal, Dom Afonso Henriques. The project had an identical plan adopted from the Coimbra Cathedral, in accordance with the Romanesque style of that time. |
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National Pantheon
The temple is built in Mannerist architectural style from the 17th century, and was modified in the 18th century in Baroque style, and started functioning as a Pantheon from 1916 onwards.
Several of the most prestige Portuguese personalities here are buried: Presidents of the Portuguese Republic, National Poets and Artists, and individualities important in the Portuguese History. |
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Pastries of Belem
In the early nineteenth century, in Belém, at the Jeronimos Monastery, a laboring refining cane sugar associated with a small local trade varied. As a result of the Liberal Revolution of 1820, 1834 are closed all the convents of Portugal, expelling the clergy and workers. In an attempt to survive, one of the monastery that offers for sale a candy store crayons, quickly called "Pastel de Belém". |
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Calouste Gulbenkian Planetary
Following the new technologies, the Planetarium exhibits daily commented projections about the Cosmos and the role and evolution that Men has in it. It is possible to observe a projected sky with about 9.000 stars and the Milky Way. |
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25 de Abril Bridge
É uma ponte rodo-ferroviária que liga a cidade de Lisboa à cidade de Almada, e atravessa o estuário do rio Tejo na parte final e mais estreita. A grandeza e a imponência da Ponte 25 de Abril está expressa no facto de, à data da sua inauguração, ser a quinta maior ponte suspensa do mundo e a maior fora dos EUA. |
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Ribeira Market
The Ribeira Market now presents a new ground floor selling flowers, vegetables and traditional products, and a first floor with a restaurant, an handicraft shop with wines and promotion books and a bar/musical space with a diversified range of activities. |
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Torre do Tombo
In the Tombo Tower are archived several important and historic documents. The access is free for everyone older than 18 years old with a valid identification card.
There is also available a permanent exhibition named as “National Memory Museum”, as well as a restaurant and cafeteria and a shop with multimedia and art products. |
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Belem Tower
The Belém Tower was built in homage to the patron Saint of Lisboa: São Vicente, in the place where was once anchored the Grande Nau (Big Ship), that combined firepower with the São Sebastião tower on the other bank of the river. |
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Lisbon Zoo
O Zoo de Lisboa, com mais de 120 anos de existência, é um dos mais conceituados parques temáticos do mundo com uma das maiores colecções zoológicas, 2000 animais distribuídos por 364 espécies. |
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