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Santo António Church – a small chapel dedicated to one of the greatest saints of Lisbon

Santo António Church, or Saint Anthony’s church, marks the birthplace of one of Lisbon’s most beloved saints. We may share Saint Anthony with the Italian city of Padua, where Saint Anthony became famous, but it was in the beautiful city of Lisbon that Fernando de…

Ajuda National Palace Neoclassical building in Lisbon

Ajuda National Palace – the royalty of Lisbon’s monuments

The Ajuda National Palace is one of Lisbon’s most beautiful palaces. Nevertheless, its construction was affected by several critical moments in Portuguese History, such as the country invasion by the french troops in 1807, and it has always existed somehow as a second choice for…

Torre de Belém, or Belém Tower, in Lisbon

Torre de Belém – Lisbon’s most famous tower

It was elected one of Portugal’s 7 Wonders, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of the most singular monuments in Lisbon. We are talking about Torre de Belém, or Belém Tower. It was built in the early 16th century, between 1514 and 1519…

Lusitano Clube, one of Lisbon's oldest clubs in Alfama

Lusitano Clube – Last call to know one of Lisbon’s oldest clubs

Lisbon used to have dozens of local clubs, places where people from a neighbourhood would gather to socialize and where sport, cultural, and social events would take place. These places are part of the city’s history as well as its memories but over the last…

The largest modern art museum in Lisbon, Museu Berardo, located in Belém

The largest modern art museum in Lisbon – Museu Coleção Berardo

The Museu Coleção Berardo occupies a large portion of Centro Cultural de Belém (Belém Cultural Centre) and it displays the biggest private collection of modern and contemporary art existing in Portugal. In the early 2000s, José Berardo, a Portuguese business man that made fortune around the…

São Pedro de Alcântara Viewpoint near Bairro Alto, in Lisbon

São Pedro de Alcântara Viewpoint – a Lisbon postcard

Located on top of one of Lisbon’s hills, near Bairro Alto neighbourhood, São Pedro de Alcântara Viewpoint has one of the best views over the city. There are several viewpoints in Lisbon, each with their own amazing panorama, but São Pedro de Alcântara’s view seems like…

Where design and fashion meet – Lisbon’s Museum of Design and Fashion

The Museum of Design and Fashion, or MUDE, is temporarily closed and reopen in September 2017. The museum building , located in Baixa area and that used to be a bank headquarters, will be fully renovated and will have better spaces and conditions to welcome…

The house of Portuguese contemporary art – MNAC

Lisbon’s Museum of Contemporary Art has a rich collection of works of art from the second half of the 19th century until today. There you can find most of the iconic artists that belong to the history of Portuguese art, from the emergence of Romanticism,…