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Moscavide e Portela

Moscavide e Portela is a civil parish in the municipality of Loures, Portugal.

The place

Moscavide e Portela is a civil parish in the municipality of Loures, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Moscavide and Portela. The population in 2011 was 21,891, in an area of 1.66 km².

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Moscavide e Portela

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
    Vasco 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.

    1.1 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere

    The Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera is the national meteorological, seismic, sea and atmospheric organization of Portugal. It also provides the weather for RTP's channels.

    2 km · Portuguese meteorological institute · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pavilhão de Portugal

    The Pavilhão de Portugal is a building located in Alameda dos Oceanos, in Parque das Nações, a civil parish in Lisbon, Portugal.

    1.5 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bela Vista Park

    The Bela Vista Park is one of the largest open areas within the city limits of Lisbon, Portugal. "Bela Vista" is the name of its adjacent neighborhood.

    3.9 km · park in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Casino Lisboa, Portugal

    Casino Lisboa is a casino located at Parque das Nações in the city of Lisbon, Portugal. It was inaugurated and opened to the public on April 19, 2006.

    1.7 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Centro Vasco da Gama

    Centro Vasco da Gama is a shopping mall in Parque das Nações, Lisbon named for Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama. The mall known for its unique architecture, extensive retail options, and integration with public transportation.

    1.4 km · shopping mall in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Fort of Sacavém

    The Redoubt of Mount Cintra, commonly known as the Fort of Sacavém, is located in the town of Sacavém in the municipality of Loures in the Lisbon District of Portugal. It is situated immediately to the north of Lisbon.

    1.9 km · fortress near Lisboa, Portugal · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Ceramics Museum of Sacavém

    The Ceramics Museum of Sacavém is situated in the town of Sacavém in the municipality of Loures, just northeast of Lisbon in Portugal. The museum was opened in July 2000 and was constructed on the grounds of a former ceramics factory.

    1.7 km · museum near Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Parque Tejo

    Parque Tejo was created in Parque das Nações, Lisbon, Portugal, following the International Exhibition of 1998, based on the idea of re-establishing the environmental quality of the Tagus riverfront. In 2023, it was renovated under the supervision of the architect António Maria Braga, renamed "Campo da Graça" during World Youth Day 2023, and to Parque Papa Francisco in July 2025.

    1.1 km · park in Portugal · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Teatro Camões

    Theatre Camões is a concert hall situated in the civil parish of Parque das Nações, municipality of Lisbon.

    2.2 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 Moscavide e Portela

Airports
Lisbon Humberto Delgado (LIS), 3 km · Faro - Gago Coutinho (FAO), 220 km · Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO), 277 km
Stations
Humberto Delgado Airport, 2.8 km · Gare do Oriente, 1.3 km · Aeroporto station, 2.5 km · Oriente station, 1.4 km · Olivais station, 2.2 km
  • Faro → Moscavide e Portela
    221 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · €27–38
  • Porto → Moscavide e Portela
    267 km · quickest by air, 4h 7m · €80–130
  • Seville → Moscavide e Portela
    313 km · quickest by road, 6h 8m · €46–65
  • 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 Moscavide e Portela

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 Moscavide e Portela. 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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    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    526 km
  2. 02
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    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

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  3. 03
    LundyGB

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  4. 04
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  5. 05
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    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

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

Around it

Next door to Moscavide e Portela

Moscavide e Portela is 7 km from Lisbon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.