Half-day tour of Lisbon city
Saturday 17 September. 36 euro per person.
Including: Transportation + English Speaking guide + Jeronimo Monastery’s entrance
Itinerary:
See the sights of Lisbon according to your preferences on a half-day private tour tailored to your needs. Visit traditional and cosmopolitan neighborhoods, stroll along the cobbled streets.
Jeronimos Monastery
The Jerónimos Monastery is a highly ornate monastery located in the parish of Belém, west of Lisbon. This great religious building was historically associated with the first navigators as explorers, as it was from here that Vasco da Gama spent the last night before his voyage to the Far East.
Belém Tower
Torre de Belém is a small fort that was built in the center of the Tagus estuary to protect Lisbon from maritime invaders. For such a trivial role, the fort was lavished with beautiful, intricate details that include North African Moorish-style watchtowers, shield-shaped battlements and the first European stone carving of a rhinoceros.
Commerce Square (Terreiro do Paco)
Praça do Comércio is the largest of Lisbon's largest squares, which is positioned on the edge of the Tagus estuary. This place was traditional, where traders sold their foreign goods and businessmen financed dangerous expeditions to the far reaches of the known world.
Alfama
Alfama is one of Lisbon's oldest neighborhoods, and is a charming labyrinth of narrow cobbled streets and old houses, which lead up the steep hill of the Tagus Estuary to the castle. Contained in a diverse and charismatic parish, there are many historic buildings, including the Sé Cathedral, the Castle, the National Pantheon and the Church of Santo Antônio.
Edward VII Park
Lisbon's central park rises up one of the city's hills and offers a wonderful view from the top. It is made up of symmetrical box cover and a variety of plants, most of them found inside 1930s greenhouses (the cold greenhouse and the heated greenhouse), which are filled with exotic species from tropical climates. This is one of the most important green spaces in Lisbon, considered an authentic living museum, with its small lakes and waterfalls, statues and hundreds of plant species. Opposite is an attractive tile-covered building dedicated to Carlos Lopes (winner of the Los Angeles Olympic Games marathon), which will soon be renovated to host cultural and sporting events. Every June, the park hosts the city's annual book fair, lasting several days. The name is a tribute to the English monarch Edward VII, who visited Lisbon in 1903, five centuries after the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance. At the top of the park there is a viewpoint with a huge Portuguese flag 20 meters long and a monument to the Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974, inaugurated in 1997.