Amadora
Amadora, officially City of Amadora, is a city and municipality in the northwest of the Lisbon metropolitan area and 10 km from central Lisbon.
Amadora, officially City of Amadora, is a city and municipality in the northwest of the Lisbon metropolitan area and 10 km from central Lisbon. The population in 2011 was 175,136, in an area of 23.78 km2. It is the fourth biggest and most densely populated city in Portugal.
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Worth seeing in and around Amadora
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.
- 01Belém Tower
Belém Tower, officially the Tower of Saint Vincent, is a 16th-century fortification located in Lisbon, Portugal, which served as a point of embarkation and disembarkation for Portuguese explorers and as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon. The tower symbolizes Portugal's maritime and colonial power in early modern Europe.
4.9 km · fortified tower located in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém in the municipality of Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 02Jerónimos Monastery
The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery ʒɨˈɾɔnimuʃ]) is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in the parish of Belém, in the Lisbon Municipality, Portugal. It became the necropolis of the Portuguese royal dynasty of Aviz in the 16th century but was secularized on 28 December 1833 by state decree and its ownership transferred to the charitable institution, Real Casa Pia de Lisboa.
4.6 km · building in Santa Maria de Belém, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia - 03Estádio 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.
4.7 km · football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 04Padrão dos Descobrimentos
The Monument of the Discoveries is a monument on the northern bank of the Tagus River estuary, in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém, Lisbon. Located along the river where ships departed to explore and trade with India and the Orient, the monument celebrates the Portuguese Age of Discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries.
5 km · memorial in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 05Estádio 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.
3.6 km · football national stadium in Oeiras, Portugal · Wikipedia - 06Belém Palace
The Belém Palace, officially the National Palace of Belém, is the current official residence of the president of Portugal, the head of state of Portugal. Located in the Belém freguesia of Lisbon, the palace's main façade faces the Afonso de Albuquerque Square, facing the Tagus River.
4.8 km · building in Santa Maria de Belém, Lisbon District, Portugal and official residence of the President of the Portuguese Republic · Wikipedia - 07Palace 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.
4.2 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia - 08Águas 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.
5.8 km · historic aqueduct in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 09National Archaeology Museum
The National Museum of Archaeology, of Doctor Leite de Vasconcelos is the largest archaeological museum in Portugal and one of the most important museums devoted to ancient art found in the Iberian Peninsula. Located in Lisbon, the museum was founded in 1893 by the archaeologist José Leite de Vasconcelos.
4.6 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia - 10Estádio 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.
4.1 km · football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Necrópole de Carenque
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Things to do
Football: CF Estrela da Amadora were promoted in 2023 so they play soccer in Primeira Liga, Portugal's top tier. Their home ground Estádio José Gomes (capacity 9300) is 500 west of Reboleira railway station. The women's team play in their top tier.
- 01KidZania Lisboa
Centro Comercial UBBO, Loja 1054, Avenida Cruzeiro Seixas 7, info@kidzania.pt.
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Where to eat
- 01Lugar ao Sul
Avenida Eduardo Jorge 8B, lugaraosulrest@gmail.com.
- 02Maria Azeitona
Rua Alfredo Keil 16, suavalecrim@gmail.com.
- 03O Quintal
Rua Bernardim Ribeiro 5B, info@oquintal.pt.
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Getting to Amadora
- Airports
- Lisbon Humberto Delgado (LIS), 10 km · Faro - Gago Coutinho (FAO), 221 km · Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO), 284 km
- Stations
- Jardim Zoológico station, 5.7 km · Alfornelos station, 3.9 km · Alto dos Moinhos station, 5 km · Laranjeiras station, 5.5 km · Amadora Este station, 3 km
- Faro → Amadora224 km · quickest by road, 3h 55m · €28–39
- Porto → Amadora271 km · quickest by air, 4h 16m · €100–150
- Seville → Amadora321 km · quickest by road, 6h 19m · €47–65
- 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 Amadora
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 Amadora. 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 Amadora
Amadora is 7 km from Lisbon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.