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Massamá e Monte Abraão

Massamá e Monte Abraão is a civil parish in the municipality of Sintra, Lisbon District, Portugal.

Massamá e Monte Abraão
Massamá e Monte Abraão · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Massamá e Monte Abraão is a civil parish in the municipality of Sintra, Lisbon District, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Massamá and Monte Abraão. The population in 2011 was 48,921, in an area of 3.09 km2.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Massamá e Monte Abraão

7 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
    Castro de Leceia

    The Castro de Leceia or Leceia Eneolithic Station is an archeological site of the Castro culture located in the Portuguese civil parish of Barcarena in the municipality of Oeiras. The area was first occupied during the end of the Neolithic and throughout the Chalcolithic, being abandoned somewhere between the end of the 4th and the beginning of the 3rd millennium BCE. The Castro was first dug and reported in 1878 by Carlos Ribeiro, who presented his results to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences in what may be considered the first monograph dedicated to a pre-historical Portuguese settlement.

    3.3 km · building in Oeiras, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Taguspark

    Taguspark is a science and technology park located in the municipality of Oeiras, Greater Lisbon subregion, Portugal. The Park covers an area of approximately 150 acres, and accommodates several research and development labs, innovative startups and business incubators in a range of fields such as information technologies (e.g.

    3.3 km · building in Porto Salvo, Oeiras · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Anta do Senhor da Serra

    The Anta da Pedra dos Mouros, also known as the Anta do Senhor da Serra, is a megalithic dolmen situated near Belas and Queluz in the Lisbon District of Portugal. It is believed to date back to the late-Neolithic and early-Chalcolithic eras.

    1.9 km · megalithic site near Belas, Portugal · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Anta do Monte Abraão

    The Anta do Monte Abraão was a megalithic dolmen located in the parish of Monte Abraão, in Queluz, Sintra Municipality, Lisbon District, Portugal. The dolmen was first identified in 1876, by Carlos Ribeiro, who carried out excavations until 1878 and published his results in 1880.

    1.5 km · megalithic site in Queluz-Belas, Portugal · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Monumento ao Bombeiro

    The Monumento ao Bombeiro or Monument to the Firefighter is a monument/memorial located in the civil parish of Belas, in the municipality of Sintra, in the central region of Portugal. The Monumento was designed to honour the service and sacrifice of several firemen, who lost their lives in 1967, during their efforts to rescue people during the torrential downpours that breached the banks of the Jamor River, causing heavy flooding.

    2.7 km · firefighter monument in Portugal · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Archaeological Site of Colaride

    The archaeological site of Colaride, is a Roman necropolis in a natural cave, located in the Portuguese civil parish of Agualva e Mira-Sintra, municipality of Sintra.

    1.6 km · cultural heritage monument in Sintra, Portugal · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Pousada of D. Maria

    The Pousada of D. Maria is part of the Pousadas de Portugal network of lodgings, housed in the historical servants quarters/annex of the Queluz National Palace, located in the civil parish of Queluz in the municipality of Sintra in the Portuguese sub-region of Greater Lisbon. Built in the Baroque-style, its five-stage bell tower provides an ecclesiastical appearance to the structure, due to surmounted floral finials.

    1.7 km · building in Queluz, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Massamá e Monte Abraão

Airports
Lisbon Humberto Delgado (LIS), 12 km · Faro - Gago Coutinho (FAO), 225 km · Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO), 282 km
Stations
Agualva-Cacém railway station, 2.3 km · Amadora train station, 3.4 km · Queluz-Belas train station, 1.6 km
  • Faro → Massamá e Monte Abraão
    227 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · €29–40
  • Porto → Massamá e Monte Abraão
    272 km · quickest by air, 4h 26m · €100–160
  • Seville → Massamá e Monte Abraão
    325 km · quickest by road, 6h 23m · €47–65
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Massamá e Monte Abraão

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 Massamá e Monte Abraão. 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.

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Around it

Next door to Massamá e Monte Abraão

Massamá e Monte Abraão is 11 km from Lisbon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.