Odivelas
Odivelas is a city and municipality in the Greater Lisbon area, Portugal.
Odivelas is a city and municipality in the Greater Lisbon area, Portugal. The municipality is located 8 km northwest of the center of Lisbon. Predominantly a residential suburb, the population in 2021 was 148 034, in an area of 26.54 km2.
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Worth seeing in and around Odivelas
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.
- 01Estádio 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.
4.2 km · football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 02University 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.
4.6 km · public research university in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 03Estádio 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.
3.6 km · football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 04National Library of Portugal
The National Library of Portugal is the Portuguese national library.
5 km · Portuguese national library, fulfilling the function of legal deposit and copyright · Wikipedia - 05Catholic 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.
4.7 km · Private Portuguese university with four campuses · Wikipedia - 06Lisbon Zoo
Lisbon Zoo is a zoological garden in Lisbon, Portugal. It was founded in 1884.
5.3 km · a zoo in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 07Palace of the Marquises of Fronteira
The Palace of the Marquesses of Fronteira is a Portuguese palace located in Lisbon, Portugal.
5.6 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia - 08Estádio José Gomes
The Estádio José Gomes, informally known as Estádio da Reboleira, after its location, is the stadium of the Portuguese football team C.F. Estrela da Amadora and it has a capacity of 9,288.
6 km · football stadium in Amadora, Portugal · Wikipedia - 09Estádio Universitário de Lisboa
The Lisbon University Stadium is a unit within the University of Lisbon, and a multivenue park located in Alvalade, Lisbon, comprising several sports facilities, and mostly known for its main venue and namesake, the Estádio de Honra, a multi-use stadium. It also includes several indoors arenas, tennis courts, football fields, a golf course, a swimming pool complex and a medical centre.
4.5 km · building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia - 10National Museum of Costume
The Museu Nacional do Traje e da Moda is located in Monteiro-Mor Palace, in Lisbon, Portugal. It has a collection of more than 33,000 items, which includes mainly masculine and feminine costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries.
2.1 km · palace in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Mosteiro de São Dinis
14th-century Gothic-style Cistercian convent founded by King Dinis I, who is buried here.
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Where to eat
- 01Tutto Combinato
Praça da Republica 14A, Urbanização Jardim da Amoreira, Ramada,.
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Getting to Odivelas
- Airports
- Lisbon Humberto Delgado (LIS), 4 km · Faro - Gago Coutinho (FAO), 224 km · Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO), 277 km
- Stations
- Humberto Delgado Airport, 4.3 km · Jardim Zoológico station, 5.5 km · Carnide station, 3.6 km · Entre Campos station, 5.5 km · Alto dos Moinhos station, 4.5 km
- Faro → Odivelas226 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · €28–39
- Porto → Odivelas266 km · quickest by air, 4h 7m · €90–130
- Seville → Odivelas320 km · quickest by air, 6h 45m · €120–180
- 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 Odivelas
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 Odivelas. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Estremadura, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.
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Next door to Odivelas
Odivelas is 8 km from Lisbon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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