Agualva-Cacém
Agualva-Cacém is a Portuguese city within the municipality of Sintra, in the Lisbon metropolitan area.
Agualva-Cacém is a Portuguese city within the municipality of Sintra, in the Lisbon metropolitan area. It comprises the civil parishes of Agualva e Mira Sintra and Cacém e São Marcos, equivalent to 81,845 inhabitants of the municipalities population.
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Worth seeing in and around Agualva-Cacém
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Pena Palace
The Pena Palace is a Romanticist palace in São Pedro de Penaferrim, in the municipality of Sintra, on the Portuguese Riviera. The castle stands on the top of a hill in the Sintra Mountains above the town of Sintra, and on a clear day it can be easily seen from Lisbon and much of its metropolitan area.
8.2 km · palace in Sintra, Portugal · Wikipedia - 02Estádio Nacional
The Estádio Nacional, also known as Estádio do Jamor, Estádio Nacional do Jamor or Estádio de Honra, is a multi-purpose stadium located within the Centro Desportivo Nacional do Jamor. Located in the municipality of Oeiras some 12 kilometres from the centre of the national capital Lisbon, the stadium has a capacity of 37,593 spectators.
7.4 km · football national stadium in Oeiras, Portugal · Wikipedia - 03Sintra National Palace
The Palace of Sintra, also called Town Palace, is located in the town of Sintra, in the Lisbon District of Portugal. It is a present-day historic house museum.
8.6 km · building in Sintra, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia - 04Quinta da Regaleira
Quinta da Regaleira [ˈkĩtɐ ðɐ ˈʁɨɣɐlɐjɾɐ] is a quinta constructed from 1904 to '10 and located near the historic centre of Sintra, Portugal. It is classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO within the "Cultural Landscape of Sintra".
9 km · culture heritage estate near Sintra, Portugal · Wikipedia - 05Castle of the Moors
The Castle of the Moors is a hilltop medieval castle located in the central Portuguese civil parish of Santa Maria e São Miguel, in the municipality of Sintra, about 25 km northwest of Lisbon. Built by the Moors in the 8th and 9th centuries, it was an important strategic point during the Reconquista, and was taken by Christian forces after the fall of Lisbon in 1147.
8.3 km · cultural heritage monument in Sintra, Portugal · Wikipedia - 06Sintra Mountains
The Sintra Mountains, is a mountain range in western Portugal. Its highest point is at 529 meters near Sintra.
8.3 km · mountain in Portugal · Wikipedia - 07Estádio José Gomes
The Estádio José Gomes, informally known as Estádio da Reboleira, after its location, is the stadium of the Portuguese football team C.F. Estrela da Amadora and it has a capacity of 9,288.
6.4 km · football stadium in Amadora, Portugal · Wikipedia - 08Colombo Center
The Colombo Centre is a shopping mall located in the parish of Carnide in Lisbon and attracts many visitors. It is situated next to the Lusíada avenue and the Segunda Circular; there is a bus terminal next to the building and the Lisbon Metro station Colégio Militar/Luz allows visitors easy access to Colombo.
9.7 km · shopping center in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia
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Getting to Agualva-Cacém
- Airports
- Lisbon Humberto Delgado (LIS), 14 km · Faro - Gago Coutinho (FAO), 227 km · Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO), 281 km
- Stations
- Alfornelos station, 8.2 km · Amadora Este station, 7.1 km · Colégio Militar/Luz station, 9.7 km · Carnide station, 9.3 km · Pontinha, 8.9 km
- Faro → Agualva-Cacém229 km · quickest by road, 4h 1m · €29–40
- Porto → Agualva-Cacém271 km · quickest by road, 4h 22m · €32–45
- Seville → Agualva-Cacém327 km · quickest by road, 6h 25m · €47–65
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Agualva-Cacém
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Agualva-Cacém. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inin Lisbon, take the commuters train from Rossio station to explore Sintra and/or the Nature Reserve finishing in Cascais, a beautiful day trip on a bicycle, in the end take a train back to Cais do Sodre station in Lisbon where you may drop back your bicycle.
- Get aroundTuktuks are freely available to go up the mountain to the fort, or Pena (ask to be dropped off at the high entrance if you are going to Pena).
- Get aroundThe walking trail through the woods to the Moorish castle starts above the Sintra city at .
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Next door to Agualva-Cacém
Agualva-Cacém is 14 km from Lisbon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Sintramunicipality in the Lisbon District, Portugal8.5 km
- Amadoramunicipality in Portugal6.1 km
- Oeirasmunicipality of Portugal7.9 km
- Queluzcity in Sintra municipality, in the Greater Lisbon Area of Portugal4.1 km
- Benficacivil parish in Lisboa8.6 km
- Algueirão - Mem Martinscivil parish in Sintra, Portugal4.9 km