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Interesting places to visit in the neighbourhood
To make your stay more interesting we give you some tips about the places to visit in the neighbourhood.
Museu do Fado pays tribute to all of them, investigating, maintaining and promoting the singularities of this performing art, born in Lisbon’s historic neighbourhoods. Throughout its approximate 200 years of history, fado was able to absorb several cultural and technological influences, tracing a consecration path in the most distinct areas, and perpetuated during nearly the entire 20th century, in the exact proportion of its popular celebration.
With origins in the Middle Ages, 13th century, the Feira da Ladra, that literally means “Thieves Market” is the oldest market in Lisboa that still takes place nowadays.
Situated in the Campo de Santa Clara, in São Vicente de Fora, since 1882, this Market steered previously many others places in the city.
Every Tuesday and Saturday from the sunrise until it sets, in tents, tables or on the floor, the Feira da Ladra exposes its products, mainly antiques and second hand items.
In this Flea Market one can come across books, clothes, military artefacts, ceramics, glass, office items, old coins, vinyl’s, cd' s, footwear, photographs, furniture and what else imagination can conceive
Classified as a National Monument since 1910, the São Jorge Castle rises up on one of the highest hills in Lisboa, and has been since early times a place occupied by Men. The first construction known in this site dates back from the 2nd century b. C..
Archaeological intervention and researches registered occupancy testimonies since, at the very least, the 6th century b. C.. Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans and Moors passed through this site.
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.
The Church and Monastery of São Vicente de Fora are situated in the lovely old part of Lisboa, considered to be one of the historical monuments of the Portuguese capital, honouring the Patron Saint of the town since 1173: Saint Vincent.
The origins of the Monastery are quite ancient: it is said that here camped the D. Afonso Henriques (the first king of Portugal) Christian troops in 1147, when Lisboa was conquered from the Moors, yet the present building was constructed between 1582 and 1629 by the architectonic plan of the renowned Filippo Terzi.
Lisboa Cathedral is the city’s oldest and most venerated monument, a symbol of medieval religious architecture.
Unique Lisboa monument of Roman origins, it also features archaeological vestiges of Roman, Visigoth and Arab occupations. Within its thick walls you can admire the austere beauty of its main and lateral facades, its towers, naves, transept, chapel, walkways, Afonsine chapels, King D. Dinis cloisters and its various rooms such as the sacristy and the religious order’s house, the chapels of St. Bartholomew and St. Vincent. Don’t leave without first visiting the Treasure Museum of the Sé, comprising some noteworthy artefacts and the mother of pearl safe that stores the relics of St Vincent, the city’s patron saint.
The National Pantheon is located in the historic district of Santa Clara, on the original site of the church of Santa Engrácia. It houses the tombs of Portugal’s major historic celebrities. Founded in the second half of the 16th century, the building was totally rebuilt at the end of the 17th century by the architect João Antunes. Even though it was never used as a place of worship, it still preserves, under its modern dome, a majestic nave enlivened by a polychrome marble decoration typical of the Portuguese Baroque architecture. Being an icon of Lisbon’s cityscape and having a privileged location, as it overlooks the city’s historic centre and the river Tagus, it is listed as a National Monument.
Close to the Senhora do Monte Sanctuary, this Viewpoint is one of the less frequented, yet one of the most beautiful in Lisboa.
The Senhora do Monte Miradouro has an half-orange shape and provides a wonderful sight over Lisboa’s city centre and its beautiful old quarters. A beautiful glazed-tiles panel with a map indicating the visible sights from this spot, some benches and toilets complete the offer of this viewpoint, that benefits from the shadow of the surrounding pine trees.
Santo Estêvão Church is proudly classified as National Monument since 1918.
The present building would have been re-built in between 1733 and 1740 over a previous temple of the 12th century, under the project of the renowned Architect José da Costa Negreiros, with an unusual orientation, on the north-south way.
With the big earthquake of 1755 the Church suffered great damages, opening later on 1773 and afterwards in the 1930’s had some conservation works.
The Church presents a Barroque style with an irregular façade divided in three structures, with two bell towers, which presently only one is erected as the other one got completely destroyed with the big 1755’s earthquake.