Alta de Lisboa
Alta de Lisboa is a Portuguese community on the northern edge of Lisbon.
Alta de Lisboa is a Portuguese community on the northern edge of Lisbon. The community covers an area of roughly 3 square kilometres.
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Worth seeing in and around Alta de Lisboa
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.
- 01University of Lisbon
The University of Lisbon is a public research university in Lisbon, and Portugal's largest university. After its initial foundation as a studium generale in 1290 moved to Coimbra in the 16th century, its first modern iteration was founded in 1911.
2.7 km · public research university in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 02Estádio José Alvalade
The Estádio José Alvalade is a football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal, and is the home of Sporting CP. It was built adjacent to the site of the older stadium. The stadium is named after José Alvalade, the founder and first club member of Sporting CP in the early 20th century.
2 km · football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 03National Library of Portugal
The National Library of Portugal is the Portuguese national library.
2.6 km · Portuguese national library, fulfilling the function of legal deposit and copyright · Wikipedia - 04Catholic University of Portugal
The Catholic University of Portugal, also referred to as Católica for short, is a non-state public university based in Lisbon with four campuses: Lisbon, Braga, Porto and Viseu. Established in 1967 by decree of the Holy See, it is a higher education institution with a humanistic focus.
3.3 km · Private Portuguese university with four campuses · Wikipedia - 05Lisbon Zoo
Lisbon Zoo is a zoological garden in Lisbon, Portugal. It was founded in 1884.
4 km · a zoo in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 06Campo Pequeno Bullring
The Campo Pequeno Bullring is the current Praça de Touros of the city of Lisbon, in Portugal. It is located in Avenida da República, in Lisbon.
3.5 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia - 07Estádio Universitário de Lisboa
The Lisbon University Stadium is a unit within the University of Lisbon, and a multivenue park located in Alvalade, Lisbon, comprising several sports facilities, and mostly known for its main venue and namesake, the Estádio de Honra, a multi-use stadium. It also includes several indoors arenas, tennis courts, football fields, a golf course, a swimming pool complex and a medical centre.
2.8 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia - 08Monastery of São Dinis de Odivelas
The Monastery of Saint Denis a former Cistercian nunnery in the city of Odivelas, near Lisbon, in Portugal. The Cistercian was founded by King Dinis I and was built during the 14th century in Gothic style.
3.9 km · building in Odivelas, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia - 09Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere
The Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera is the national meteorological, seismic, sea and atmospheric organization of Portugal. It also provides the weather for RTP's channels.
1.6 km · Portuguese meteorological institute · Wikipedia - 10Estádio do Lumiar
Estádio do Lumiar was a multi-use stadium in Lisbon, Portugal. It was initially used as the stadium of Sporting Clube de Portugal matches.
1.6 km · football stadium in Lisbon · Wikipedia
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Getting to Alta de Lisboa
- Airports
- Lisbon Humberto Delgado (LIS), 1 km · Faro - Gago Coutinho (FAO), 221 km · Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO), 278 km
- Stations
- Humberto Delgado Airport, 900 m · Gare do Oriente, 4 km · Laranjeiras station, 3.8 km · Entre Campos station, 3 km · Campo Pequeno station, 3.6 km
- Faro → Alta de Lisboa223 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · €28–39
- Porto → Alta de Lisboa268 km · quickest by air, 4h 7m · €80–130
- Seville → Alta de Lisboa316 km · quickest by air, 6h 45m · €120–180
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Alta de Lisboa
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 Alta de Lisboa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Alta de Lisboa
Alta de Lisboa is 5 km from Lisbon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Alvaladecivil parish in Lisboa3.1 km
- Lumiarcivil parish in Lisboa1.5 km
- Carnidecivil parish in Lisboa3.7 km
- Santa Maria dos Olivaiscivil parish in Lisboa2.1 km
- Odivelascivil parish in Odivelas3.8 km
- Avenidas Novascivil parish in Lisboa3.9 km