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Carnide

Carnide is a freguesia and typical quarter of Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal.

Carnide
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The place

Carnide is a freguesia and typical quarter of Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal. Located in northern Lisbon, Carnide is north of São Domingos de Benfica and Benfica, east of Lumiar, and directly south of Lisbon's border with Odivelas. The population in 2021 was 18,028.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Carnide

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.

    900 m · football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    University 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
  3. 03
    Estádio 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.

    2.5 km · football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    National Library of Portugal

    The National Library of Portugal is the Portuguese national library.

    3.3 km · Portuguese national library, fulfilling the function of legal deposit and copyright · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Calouste 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.

    4 km · art museum in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    NOVA 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.

    3.9 km · university in Portugal · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Lisbon 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.

    3.8 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Catholic 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.

    2.3 km · Private Portuguese university with four campuses · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Lisbon Zoo

    Lisbon Zoo is a zoological garden in Lisbon, Portugal. It was founded in 1884.

    2.5 km · a zoo in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Palace of the Marquises of Fronteira

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

    2.3 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · 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 Carnide

Airports
Lisbon Humberto Delgado (LIS), 5 km · Faro - Gago Coutinho (FAO), 221 km · Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO), 280 km
Stations
Jardim Zoológico station, 2.7 km · Alto dos Moinhos station, 1.4 km · Colégio Militar/Luz station, 700 m · Carnide station, 300 m · Entre Campos station, 3.8 km
  • Faro → Carnide
    223 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · €28–39
  • Porto → Carnide
    269 km · quickest by air, 4h 7m · €90–130
  • Seville → Carnide
    318 km · quickest by air, 6h 45m · €120–180
  • 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 Carnide

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 Carnide. 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

    973 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    1,425 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,463 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    1,598 km

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

Around it

Next door to Carnide

Carnide is 5 km from Lisbon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.