How To Use This E-Book Getting Around the e-Book This Pocket Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration and planning advice for your visit to Lisbon, and is also the perfect on-the-ground companion for your trip. The guide begins with our selection of Top 10 Attractions, plus a Perfect Itinerary feature to help you plan unmissable experiences. The Introduction and History chapters paint a vivid cultural portrait of Lisbon, and the Where to Go chapter gives a complete guide to all the sights worth visiting. You will find ideas for activities in the What to Do section, while the Eating Out chapter describes the local cuisine and gives listings of the best restaurants. The Travel Tips offer practical information to help you plan your trip. Finally, there are carefully selected hotel listings.
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Table of Contents Lisbons Top 10 Attractions
Top Attraction #1 Shutterstock The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology MAAT is the newest landmark of the transformed Belem riverside.
Top Attraction #2 Lydia Evans/Apa Publications Elevador de Santa Justa A century-old iron lift with great city views.
Top Attraction #2 Lydia Evans/Apa Publications Elevador de Santa Justa A century-old iron lift with great city views.
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Top Attraction #3 iStock The Torre de Belm This fine example of Manueline architecture guards the entrance to Lisbon. For more information, .
Top Attraction #4 iStock Mosteiro dos Jernimos A jewel from Portugals Golden Age. For more information, .
Top Attraction #5 Lydia Evans/Apa Publications Castelo de So Jorge Built by the Moors, this castle is where present-day Portugal began.
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Top Attraction #6 iStock Parque das Naes The highlight here is the state-of-the-art aquarium. For more information, .
Top Attraction #7 Public domain Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga Home to the citys finest art collection. For more information, .
Top Attraction #8 iStock The Bairro Alto Bars, clubs and restaurants make the Upper City Lisbons centre of nightlife.
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Top Attraction #9 Lydia Evans/Apa Publications The Museu Gulbenkian A superb and wide-ranging art collection. For more information, .
Top Attraction #10 Lydia Evans/Apa Publications The Alfama district Narrow alleyways and red-roofed houses give a taste of medieval Lisbon. For more information, .
A Perfect Day In Lisbon
9.00am Start the day Breakfast of coffee and pastries at a laid-back caf in Alfama, Lisbons steeply inclined, characterful Mooris district that is topped by the Castelo de So Jorge.
Then slowly saunter around the corner to Lisbons cathedral. The S is a handsome, defensive-looking place of worship dating from the 12th century, and forms a contrast to the web of narrow Alfama lanes.
11.00am Castle views From here its a picturesque meander through alleys splashed with vibrantly colourful azulejos (tiles), up the steep incline to the Castelo de So Jorge, with sweeping panoramic views over the city and the River Tagus.
1.00pm Lunch Time for a lazy lunch of grilled sardines or bacalhau (salted cod). In one of the family-run restaurants in the backstreets of Alfama. 28, and head down to the Baixa district, an appealing grid of old-fashioned streets. 28, and head down to the Baixa district, an appealing grid of old-fashioned streets.
Have a wander around the Praa do Comrcio, whose proud colonnades overlook the Tagus, before taking a bus westwards along the waterfront to Belm, Lisbons monumental district.
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