Alvalade
Alvalade is a freguesia and typical quarter of Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal.
Alvalade is a freguesia and typical quarter of Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal. Located in central Lisbon, Alvalade is south of Lumiar and Olivais, west of Marvila, east of São Domingos de Benfica, and north of Avenidas Novas and Areeiro. The population in 2021 was 33,309.
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Worth seeing in and around Alvalade
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.
2.1 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.
2.7 km · football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 03Castle of Saint George
São Jorge Castle, sometimes known in English as Saint George's Castle, is a historic castle in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, located in the freguesia of Santa Maria Maior. Human occupation of the castle hill dates to at least the 8th century BC while the oldest fortifications on the site date from the 2nd century BC. The hill on which Saint George's Castle stands has played an important part in the history of Lisbon, having served as the location of fortifications occupied successively by Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, and Moors, before its conquest by the Portuguese in the 1147 Siege of Lisbon.
3.7 km · Moorish castle in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 04National Library of Portugal
The National Library of Portugal is the Portuguese national library.
1.5 km · Portuguese national library, fulfilling the function of legal deposit and copyright · Wikipedia - 05Santa Justa Lift
The Santa Justa Lift, also called Carmo Lift, is an elevator, or lift, in the civil parish of Santa Maria Maior, in the historic center of Lisbon, Portugal. Situated at the end of Rua de Santa Justa, it connects the lower streets of the Baixa with the higher Largo do Carmo.
3.9 km · cultural heritage monument in Lisboa, Portugal · Wikipedia - 06Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Lisbon's Calouste Gulbenkian Museum houses one of the world's most important private art collections. It includes works from Ancient Egypt to the early 20th century, spanning the arts of the Islamic World, China and Japan, as well as French decorative arts.
2 km · art museum in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 07NOVA University Lisbon
NOVA University of Lisbon, or just NOVA, is a Portuguese public university whose rectorate is located in Campolide, Lisbon. Founded in 1973, it is the newest of the public universities in the Portuguese capital city, earning its name as the "New" University of Lisbon.
2.6 km · university in Portugal · Wikipedia - 08Church of Santa Engrácia
The Church of Santa Engrácia is a 17th-century monument in Lisbon, Portugal. Originally a church, it was converted into the National Pantheon, in which important Portuguese personalities are buried.
3.7 km · church in Lisbon · Wikipedia - 09Lisbon Central Mosque
The Central Mosque of Lisbon is a mosque in Campolide, Lisbon, Portugal, serving the capital city's main mosque. The mosque is the largest mosque in Portugal.
2.3 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia - 10Águas Livres Aqueduct
The Águas Livres Aqueduct is a historic aqueduct system in Lisbon, Portugal. It is considered one of the most remarkable examples of 18th-century Portuguese engineering and one of Lisbon's best-known landmarks.
3.5 km · historic aqueduct in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia
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Getting to Alvalade
- Airports
- Lisbon Humberto Delgado (LIS), 4 km · Faro - Gago Coutinho (FAO), 218 km · Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO), 281 km
- Stations
- Humberto Delgado Airport, 3 km · Gare do Oriente, 4 km · Rossio railway station, 3.6 km · Santa Apolónia Station, 3.8 km · Marquês de Pombal station, 2.8 km
- Faro → Alvalade220 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · €28–39
- Porto → Alvalade270 km · quickest by air, 4h 7m · €80–130
- Seville → Alvalade315 km · quickest by road, 6h 14m · €46–65
- 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 Alvalade
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 Alvalade. 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 Alvalade
Alvalade is 3 km from Lisbon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Lisbon Baixaneighborhood of Lisbon, Portugal4 km
- Bairro Altoneighborhood in Lisbon, Portugal3.8 km
- Lumiarcivil parish in Lisboa2.8 km
- São Domingos de Benficacivil parish in Lisboa3 km
- Penha de Françacivil parish in Lisboa1.9 km
- Campolidecivil parish in Lisboa3.3 km