Marvila
Marvila is a freguesia and typical quarter of Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal.
Marvila is a freguesia and typical quarter of Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal. Located in eastern Lisbon, Marvila is to the southwest of Parque das Nações north of Beato, and east of Alvalade. The population in 2021 was 35,479.
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Worth seeing in and around Marvila
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.
- 01Church 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.
3.8 km · church in Lisbon · Wikipedia - 02Vasco da Gama Tower
The Vasco da Gama Tower is a 160-metre lattice tower with skyscraper in the civil parish of Parque das Nações, the municipality of Lisbon, in Portugal. Built on the north bank of the Tagus river, it is named after the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama.
3.5 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia - 03Monastery of São Vicente de Fora
The Church and Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, meaning "Monastery of St. Vincent Outside the Walls", is a 17th-century church and monastery in the city of Lisbon, Portugal.
3.9 km · church and monastery in Lisbon · Wikipedia - 04National Azulejo Museum
The Museu Nacional do Azulejo, occasionally known in English as the National Tile Museum, is an art museum in Lisbon, Portugal dedicated to the azulejo, traditional tilework of Portugal and the former Portuguese Empire, as well as of other Iberophone cultures. Housed in the former Madre de Deus Convent, the museum's collection is one of the largest of ceramics in the world.
2.4 km · museum in Lisbon · Wikipedia - 05Pantheon of the House of Braganza
The Pantheon of the House of Braganza, also known as the Pantheon of the Braganzas, is the final resting place for many of the members of the House of Braganza, located in the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora in the Alfama district of Lisbon, Portugal. The pantheon's burials have included Portuguese monarchs, Brazilian monarchs, Carol II of Romania, queen consorts of Portugal, and notable Infantes of Portugal, among others.
3.9 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, 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.
3.6 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia - 07Palácio da Bemposta
The Bemposta Palace, also known as the Paço da Rainha, is a neoclassical palace in the area of Bemposta, now the civil parish of Pena, in Lisbon. It was originally built for Queen Dowager Catherine of Braganza on her return from London to Lisbon and served for several years as her residence.
3.8 km · palace in Lisbon · Wikipedia - 08Instituto Superior Técnico
The Instituto Superior Técnico is the school of engineering and technology of the University of Lisbon. It was founded as an autonomous school in 1911, and was integrated into the Technical University of Lisbon in 1930.
3.2 km · school of engineering and technology of the University of Lisbon · Wikipedia - 09Alto de São João Cemetery
Alto de São João Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Lisbon, Portugal, located in the freguesia of Penha de França, in eastern Lisbon. Similar to Prazeres Cemetery, it is the resting place for many prominent figures, from literature to the arts, from science to politics, from working class to nobility, side by side with anonymous citizens who are buried and cremated there.
2.3 km · cemetery in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 10Palácio dos Duques de Lafões
Palácio do Grilo, also known as the Palace of the Dukes of Lafões, is located at the corner of Grilo Street with the Dukes of Lafões Sidewalk, standing in the Beato parish in the heart of the city of Lisbon. The structure constitutes an architectural complex of the 18th century and predominantly Neoclassic style punctuated by baroque expressions and motifs.
1.4 km · Palace in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia
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Getting to Marvila
- Airports
- Lisbon Humberto Delgado (LIS), 5 km · Faro - Gago Coutinho (FAO), 216 km · Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO), 281 km
- Stations
- Gare do Oriente, 2.6 km · Santa Apolónia Station, 3.8 km · Alameda station, 2.8 km · Entre Campos station, 3.8 km · Saldanha station, 3.7 km
- Faro → Marvila217 km · quickest by road, 3h 49m · €28–39
- Porto → Marvila271 km · quickest by air, 4h 7m · €90–140
- Seville → Marvila311 km · quickest by road, 6h 13m · €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 Marvila
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 Marvila. 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 Marvila
Marvila is 5 km from Lisbon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Alvaladecivil parish in Lisboa2.8 km
- Parque das Naçõescivil parish in Lisboa2.8 km
- Penha de Françacivil parish in Lisboa2.9 km
- Beatocivil parish in Lisboa1.2 km
- Santa Maria dos Olivaiscivil parish in Lisboa3.1 km
- Arroioscivil parish in Lisboa3.5 km