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Civil parish in Lisbon, Portugal

Arroios

Arroios is a freguesia in the municipality of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.

Arroios
Arroios · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Arroios is a freguesia in the municipality of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Located in the city centre with an area of 2.13km2 in which 33,302 reside (2021), the civil parish was a result of the 2012 administrative reform, which fused São Jorge de Arroios, Anjos and Pena and takes its name from the typical quarter in the northern part of its territory.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Arroios

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
    University of Lisbon

    Public research university in Lisbon, Portugal

    3.2 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Praça do Comércio

    Square in Lisbon, Portugal

    2.4 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Lisbon Cathedral

    Roman Catholic Cathedral located in Lisbon, Portugal

    2.2 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Castle of Saint George

    Moorish castle in Lisbon, Portugal

    1.7 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    National Library of Portugal

    Portuguese national library, fulfilling the function of legal deposit and copyright

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    National Museum of Ancient Art

    Museum in Lisboa, Portugal

    3.3 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Santa Justa Lift

    Cultural heritage monument in Lisboa, Portugal

    1.9 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

    Art museum in Lisbon, Portugal

    1.6 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    NOVA University Lisbon

    University in Portugal

    2 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of Santa Engrácia

    Church in Lisbon

    1.9 km · 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 Arroios

Airports
Lisbon Humberto Delgado (LIS), 6 km · Faro - Gago Coutinho (FAO), 216 km · Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO), 283 km
Stations
Rossio railway station, 1.6 km · Santa Apolónia Station, 2.1 km · Cais do Sodré railway station, 2.6 km · Baixa-Chiado station, 2.1 km · Marquês de Pombal station, 1.2 km
  • Faro → Arroios
    218 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · €28–39
  • Porto → Arroios
    77 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · €10–13
  • Seville → Arroios
    313 km · quickest by road, 6h 15m · €46–65
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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 Arroios

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThat said, regular shuttle ferry traffic is limited to joining the banks of the Tagus river, i.e.
  • Get inthere are no ferries to Lisbon other than the small ones from neighbouring municipalities.
  • Get aroundIt consists of a bus and tram network operated by Carris, the separately-run Lisbon Metro underground rail, as well as commuter trains and ferries which connect Lisbon to its neighbouring suburbs.
  • Get aroundMost public transport in Lisbon uses an integrated ticketing system, allowing the same smartcard to be used across metro, buses, trams, suburban trains and many ferries.
  • Get aroundIt's valid on the metro, trams (electricos), urban trains, most buses and ferries.

From Wikivoyage: Lisbon, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    524 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    968 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    1,428 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,465 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    1,601 km

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

Around it

Next door to Arroios

Arroios is 1 km from Lisbon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.