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Alfragide

Alfragide is a parish in Amadora Municipality.

Alfragide
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The place

Alfragide is a parish in Amadora Municipality. The population in 2011 was 17,044, in an area of 2.51 km2 (0.97 sq mi).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Alfragide

10 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.

  1. 01
    Estádio da Luz

    The Estádio da Luz, officially named Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, is a multi-purpose stadium located in Lisbon, Portugal. It is owned by association football club Sport Lisboa e Benfica, and hosts the club's home matches.

    3.6 km · football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Palace of Ajuda

    The Palace of Ajuda is a neoclassical monument in the civil parish of Ajuda in the city of Lisbon, central Portugal. Built on the site of a temporary wooden building constructed to house the royal family after the 1755 earthquake and tsunami, it was originally begun by architect Manuel Caetano de Sousa, who planned a late Baroque-Rococo building.

    3.4 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Estádio do Restelo

    The Estádio do Restelo is a multi-purpose stadium in Lisbon, Portugal. The stadium has a seated capacity of 19,856 people and was built in 1956, in an old stone quarry.

    3.6 km · football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon

    The Lisbon Astronomical Observatory is an astronomical observatory located in Tapada da Ajuda, in the civil parish of Alcântara, municipality of Lisbon. Recognized internationally for its quality of work in the field of positional astronomy, in 1992, it became a dependency of the University of Lisbon, responsible for scientific and historical research, along with media relations.

    3.7 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Palace of the Marquises of Fronteira

    The Palace of the Marquesses of Fronteira is a Portuguese palace located in Lisbon, Portugal.

    3.3 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Estádio 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.

    2.2 km · football stadium in Amadora, Portugal · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Colombo 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.

    3.4 km · shopping center in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Igreja da Memória

    Memory Church is a church in Ajuda, Portugal. It holds the Mausoleum of the Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal.

    3.7 km · church building in Ajuda, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    National Museum of Ethnology

    The National Museum of Ethnology is an ethnographic museum in Lisbon, Portugal. The museum holds the most important ethnographic collections in the country.

    3.4 km · Ethnographic museum in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Museu Benfica

    The Museu Benfica – Cosme Damião is the museum of Portuguese sports club S.L. Benfica. Named after Cosme Damião, one of the club's founders in 1904, the museum was inaugurated on 26 July 2013 under the presidency of Luís Filipe Vieira and opened to the public on 29 July, one year and three months after the start of construction.

    3.6 km · S.L. Benfica museum · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Alfragide

Airports
Lisbon Humberto Delgado (LIS), 9 km · Faro - Gago Coutinho (FAO), 220 km · Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO), 283 km
Stations
Alto dos Moinhos station, 3.8 km · Colégio Militar/Luz station, 3.3 km · Carnide station, 3.6 km · Alfornelos station, 3.1 km · Amadora Este station, 2.6 km
  • Faro → Alfragide
    222 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · €28–39
  • Porto → Alfragide
    274 km · quickest by air, 4h 17m · €100–150
  • Seville → Alfragide
    319 km · quickest by road, 6h 17m · €46–65
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Alfragide

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 Alfragide. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are two airports within the Lisbon Region: Lisbon Portela Airport, which handles scheduled and charter passenger flights, and Aeródromo Municipal de Cascais, which is a small airport for general aviation (private planes) in Cascais.
  • Get aroundAt its backbone are the local railways, supported by the light rail systems and the ferries across the Tagus, complemented by bus connections, all of which have several operators.
  • Get aroundThe line starts in Barreiros on the south bank of the Tagus, where you can get by a ferry from the very heart of Lisbon.
  • Get aroundTo close the gap the Tagus poses, a company called Transtejo operates a number of regular ferry connections between various quays in Lisbon and municipalities on the southern side of the river.

From Wikivoyage: Estremadura, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    529 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    972 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    1,429 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,467 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    1,601 km

If you know how people move in Alfragide – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Alfragide

Alfragide is 6 km from Lisbon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.