Things to do in Lisbon

150 places selected among attractions, museums, squares and viewpoints

Lisbon is the capital and most populous city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 658,236 as of 2025, within its administrative limits and 3,353,000 within the metropolis, as of 2025. The city lies in the western part of the Iberian Peninsula, fronting the northern shore of the River Tagus.

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Must-see in Lisbon

1. 🏰 castle
Belém Tower
Belém Tower (Portuguese: Torre de Belém, pronounced [ˈtoʁɨ ðɨ βɨˈlɐ̃j]; literally: Bethlehem Tower), officially the Tower of Saint Vincent (Portuguese: Torre de São Vicente), is a 16th-century fortification located in Lisbon, Portugal, which served as a point of embarkation and disembarkation for Portuguese explorers and as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon. The tower symbolizes Portugal's maritime and colonial power in early modern Europe. It was built during the height of the Portuguese Renaissance and is a prominent example of the Portuguese Manueline style, but it also incorporates other architectural styles, such as the minarets, which are inspired by Moorish architecture. (Wikipedia)

🏛️ Museums in Lisbon

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

Lisbon's Calouste Gulbenkian Museum houses one of the world's most important private art collections. (Wikipedia)

National Museum of Ancient Art

The Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (Portuguese pronunciation: [muˈzew nɐsiuˈnal dɨ ˈaɾtɐ̃ˈtiɣɐ]; MNAA), also known in English as the National Museum of Ancient Art, is a Portuguese national art museum located in Lisbon. (Wikipedia)

Monastery of São Vicente de Fora

The Church and Monastery of São Vicente de Fora (Portuguese: Igreja e Mosteiro de São Vicente de Fora), meaning "Monastery of St. (Wikipedia)

National Archaeology Museum

The National Museum of Archaeology, of Doctor Leite de Vasconcelos is the largest archaeological museum in Portugal and one of the most important museums devoted to ancient art found in the Iberian Peninsula. (Wikipedia)

National Azulejo Museum

The Museu Nacional do Azulejo (Portuguese for National Museum of the Azulejo), occasionally known in English as the National Tile Museum, is an art museum in Lisbon, Portugal dedicated to the azulejo, traditional tilework of Portugal and the former Portuguese Empire, as well as of other Iberophone cultures. (Wikipedia)

Navy Museum

The Navy Museum (Portuguese: Museu de Marinha) is a maritime museum in Lisbon, dedicated to all aspects of the history of navigation in Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Electricity Museum

The Electricity Museum is a science and industrial heritage museum in Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

National Coach Museum

The National Coach Museum (Museu Nacional dos Coches) is located in Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology

The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology or MAAT (Portuguese: Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia) (MAAT) is a museum in Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Berardo Collection Museum

The Berardo Collection Museum (in Portuguese: Museu Colecção Berardo) was a museum of modern and contemporary art in Belém, a district of Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Chiado Museum

The National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado (Chiado Museum, in Portuguese: Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado – MNAC) is an art museum located in the Chiado neighbourhood of Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Torre do Tombo National Archive

The Torre do Tombo National Archive (Portuguese: Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo), commonly known simply as the Torre do Tombo ([ˈtoʁɨ ðu ˈtõbu]; literally "Tower of the Tome") is the national archive of Portugal, located in Lisbon. (Wikipedia)

Fado Museum

The Fado Museum is a music museum dedicated to Fado located in the Lisbon neighbourhood of Alfama. (Wikipedia)

National Museum of Costume

The Museu Nacional do Traje e da Moda is located in Monteiro-Mor Palace, in Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Museu da Água

The Museu da Água (Water Museum) is a museum located in Lisbon, Portugal, primarily focusing on the subject of Lisbon's water supply infrastructure. (Wikipedia)

National Museum of Ethnology

The National Museum of Ethnology (Portuguese: Museu Nacional de Etnologia) is an ethnographic museum in Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian

The Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM) is a major venue for contemporary art in Portugal and holds one of the largest collections of modern and contemporary Portuguese artworks. (Wikipedia)

Cinemateca Portuguesa

Cinemateca Portuguesa is a public institution dedicated to the diffusion and preservation of the filmic arts in Portugal and, in particular, of Portuguese Cinema. (Wikipedia)

Carmo Archaeological Museum

Museum in Lisbon, Portugal

Don Fernando II e Glória

Dom Fernando II e Glória is a wooden-hulled, 50-gun frigate of the Portuguese Navy. (Wikipedia)

⛪ Churches and places of worship in Lisbon

Church of Santa Engrácia

The Church of Santa Engrácia (Portuguese: Igreja de Santa Engrácia, pronounced [iˈɣɾeʒɐ ðɨ ˈsɐ̃tɐ ẽˈɡɾasiɐ]) is a 17th-century monument in Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Estrela Basilica

The Estrela Basilica (Portuguese: Basílica da Estrela [iʃˈtɾelɐ]) or the Royal Basilica and Convent of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Portuguese: Real Basílica e Convento do Santíssimo Coração de Jesus), is a minor basilica and ancient carmelite convent in Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Igreja de São Roque

The Igreja de São Roque ([ˈsɐ̃w ˈʁɔkɨ]; Church of Saint Roch) is a Catholic church in Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Igreja de Santo António de Lisboa

The Church of Saint Anthony of Lisbon (Portuguese: Igreja de Santo António de Lisboa) is a Roman Catholic church located in Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Igreja de Santa Luzia

Igreja de Santa Luzia is a church in Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Igreja de Santo Estêvão

Saint Stephen Church (Portuguese: Igreja de Santo Estêvão) is a church in Alfama district of Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Igreja da Memória

Memory Church (Portuguese: Igreja da Memória) is a church in Ajuda (Lisbon), Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Basilica of Our Lady of the Martyrs, Lisboa

The Basilica of Our Lady of the Martyrs (Portuguese: Basílica de Nossa Senhora dos Mártires ) Is a Catholic church located on Rua Garrett, in Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal in the parish of St Mary (in the territory of the old parish of the Martyrs). (Wikipedia)

Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição Velha

The Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Portuguese: Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição Velha) is a church in the civil parish of Madalena, in the municipality of Lisbon. (Wikipedia)

St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral (Portuguese: Catedral de São Paulo) is an Anglican cathedral in Lisbon, seat of the Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church, which is a member church of the Anglican Communion. (Wikipedia)

Graça Convent

Graça Convent (Portuguese: Convento da Graça) is one of the oldest convents in Lisbon. (Wikipedia)

Convento de Santos-o-Novo

Building in Lisbon

Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Loreto

Church building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal

🌉 Bridges, towers and architecture in Lisbon

Lisbon Baixa

The Baixa ("Downtown"), also known as the Baixa Pombalina (IPA: [ˈbajʃɐ põbɐˈlinɐ]; "Pombaline Downtown"), is a neighbourhood in the historic centre of Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

MEO Arena

MEO Arena (formerly Altice Arena; also referred to by its former name, Pavilhão Atlântico) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Santa Justa Lift

The Santa Justa Lift (Portuguese: Elevador de Santa Justa, pronounced [elɨvɐˈðoɾ ðɨ ˈsɐ̃tɐ ˈʒuʃtɐ]), also called Carmo Lift (Portuguese: Elevador do Carmo, [elɨvɐˈðoɾ ðu ˈkaɾmu]), is an elevator, or lift, in the civil parish of Santa Maria Maior, in the historic center of Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Ascensor da Glória

The Glória Funicular (Portuguese: Ascensor da Glória, popularly also known as Elevador da Glória) is a hybrid funicular-tram line in the civil parish of Santo António, in Lisbon, Portugal, operated by Carris. (Wikipedia)

Vasco da Gama Tower

The Vasco da Gama Tower (Portuguese: Torre Vasco da Gama, pronounced [ˈtoʁɨ ˈvaʃku ðɐ ˈɣɐmɐ]) is a 160-metre (520 ft) lattice tower with skyscraper in the civil parish of Parque das Nações, the municipality of Lisbon, in Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Bairro Alto

Bairro Alto (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbajʁu ˈaltu]; literally: Upper District) is a central district of the city of Lisbon, the Portuguese capital. (Wikipedia)

Avenida da Liberdade

Avenida da Liberdade (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐveˈniðɐ ðɐ liβɐɾˈðaðɯ]; meaning 'Avenue of Liberty') is a boulevard in central Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Ascensor da Bica

The Bica Funicular (Portuguese: Ascensor da Bica), sometimes known as the Elevador da Bica (Bica Lift), is a funicular railway line in the civil parish of Misericórdia, in the municipality of Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Lisbon Synagogue

The Lisbon Synagogue, formally the Synagogue Shaaré Tikvah, (Portuguese: Sinagoga Portuguesa Shaaré Tikvah; Hebrew: שערי תקווה, lit. (Wikipedia)

Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon

The Lisbon Astronomical Observatory (Portuguese: Observatório Astronómico de Lisboa) is an astronomical observatory located in Tapada da Ajuda, in the civil parish of Alcântara, municipality of Lisbon. (Wikipedia)

Ascensor do Lavra

The Ascensor do Lavra, also known as the Elevador do Lavra or Lavra Funicular, is a funicular railway in Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Belém Cultural Center

The Belém Cultural Center (Portuguese: Centro Cultural de Belém) is a complex of artistic venues located in Belém in the city of Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Palace of the Marquises of Fronteira

The Palace of the Marquesses of Fronteira (Portuguese: Palácio dos Marqueses de Fronteira) is a Portuguese palace located in Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Prazeres Cemetery

Prazeres Cemetery (Portuguese: Cemitério dos Prazeres) is one of the largest cemeteries in Lisbon, Portugal; it is located in the freguesia (civil parish) of Estrela, in western Lisbon (formerly, within the parish of Prazeres). (Wikipedia)

Lisbon City Hall

The Lisbon City Hall (Portuguese: Paços do Concelho de Lisboa, lit. (Wikipedia)

Estufa Fria de Lisboa

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Café A Brasileira

The Café A Brasileira ([kɐˈfɛ ɐ βɾɐziˈlɐjɾɐ]; "Café The Brazilian"), previously spelled as A Brazileira, is a café located in Lisbon, specifically at 120 Rua Garrett, in the civil parish of Santa Maria Maior. (Wikipedia)

Casa dos Bicos

The Casa dos Bicos (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkazɐ ðuʒ ˈβikuʃ]; "House of the Beaks/Spikes") is a historical house in the civil parish of Santa Maria Maior, in the Portuguese municipality of Lisbon. (Wikipedia)

Instituto Superior Técnico

The Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, also known as Técnico, and stylized TÉCNICO LISBOA; English: Higher Technical Institute) is the school of engineering and technology of the University of Lisbon. (Wikipedia)

Alto de São João Cemetery

Alto de São João Cemetery (Portuguese: Cemitério do Alto de São João) is the largest cemetery in Lisbon, Portugal, located in the freguesia (civil parish) of Penha de França, in eastern Lisbon (formerly, within the parish of São João). (Wikipedia)

Livraria Bertrand

The Bertrand Library is a Portuguese book retailer operating 59 branches nationwide, including 2 in Madeira. (Wikipedia)

Pavilhão de Portugal

The Pavilhão de Portugal (In English The Pavilion of Portugal ) is a building located in Alameda dos Oceanos, in Parque das Nações, a civil parish in Lisbon, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Universidade Lusófona

Universidade Lusófona (Lusophone University) is the largest private university in Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Cadeia do Aljube

Cadeia do Aljube is a former prison in Lisbon, Portugal, now serving as a museum. (Wikipedia)

Estabelecimento Prisional de Lisboa

Prison in Lisbon, Portugal

Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil

The Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, English: National Laboratory for Civil Engineering, known as LNEC, is a Portuguese public institution of scientific and technological research and development and is a civil engineering laboratory. (Wikipedia)

Third Tagus Crossing

The Third Tagus Crossing (Portuguese: Terceira Travessia do Tejo; commonly abbreviated as TTT) is a project for a road-rail crossing over the Tagus River, with the aim of connecting the city of Lisbon, on the north bank, to the peninsula of Setúbal on the south bank. (Wikipedia)

Palacete Mayer

The Palacete Mayer ([pɐlɐˈsetɨ ˈmajɐɾ], "Little Palace of the Mayers"; sometimes referred to as the Lima Mayer Palace) is a Portuguese eclectical residence situated in the civil parish of Santo António, municipality of Lisbon. (Wikipedia)

🏔️ Nature around Lisbon

Monsanto Forest Park

Monsanto Forest Park (Portuguese: Parque Florestal de Monsanto) is a municipal forest in Lisbon, Portugal, the largest green space in the city, covering over 900 hectares (2,200 acres). (Wikipedia)

Cabo Espichel

📍 34 km from Lisbon

Cape Espichel (pronounced [(i)ʃpiˈʃɛl]) is a cape situated on the western coast of the civil parish of Castelo, municipality of Sesimbra, in the Portuguese district of Setúbal, at the very southwestern corner of the Setubal Peninsula. (Wikipedia)

Sintra-Cascais Natural Park

📍 28 km from Lisbon

The Sintra-Cascais Natural Park is a park on the Portuguese Riviera, one of the 13 Natural Parks of Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Arrábida Natural Park

📍 28 km from Lisbon

Arrábida Natural Park (Portuguese: Parque Natural da Arrábida) is a protected area in Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Tagus Estuary Natural Reserve

📍 19 km from Lisbon

Tagus Estuary Natural Reserve (Portuguese: Reserva Natural do Estuário do Tejo) is a natural reserve in Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Sado Estuary Natural Reserve

📍 44 km from Lisbon

Sado Estuary Natural Reserve (Portuguese: Reserva Natural do Estuário do Sado) is a nature reserve in Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Artificial caves of Casal do Pardo

📍 24 km from Lisbon

The four Artificial caves of Casal do Pardo (Portuguese: Grutas artificiais do Casal do Pardo), also known as the Caves of Quinta do Anjo, were neolithic tombs. (Wikipedia)

Arrábida Mountain

📍 26 km from Lisbon

Mountain in Setúbal, Portugal

Monumento Natural de Carenque

📍 13 km from Lisbon

The Carenque Natural Monument is a fossil site of dinosaur footprints located in the parish of Belas in the municipality of Sintra, Portugal. (Wikipedia)

Artificial caves of Alapraia

📍 21 km from Lisbon

The Artificial caves of Alapraia (Portuguese: Grutas Artificiais de Alapraia) constitute a prehistoric necropolis formed by four subterranean tombs or hypogea that were created by excavating marlstone rock using stone tools. (Wikipedia)

Cresmina Dune

📍 29 km from Lisbon

The Cresmina Dune extends over 66 hectares and is a part of the Guincho-Oitavos dune system, located on the edge of the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park near Cascais in Portugal. (Wikipedia)