Queluz
Queluz is a city within the Sintra Municipality, on the Portuguese Riviera, in the Lisbon metropolitan area of Portugal.
Queluz is a city within the Sintra Municipality, on the Portuguese Riviera, in the Lisbon metropolitan area of Portugal. It is famed as the home of Queluz National Palace, the 18th century pleasure palace of the Portuguese Royal Family, as well as notable institutions like the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art. Queluz had a population 78,273 inhabitants in 2001.
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Worth seeing in and around Queluz
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.
- 01Belém Tower
Belém Tower, officially the Tower of Saint Vincent, is a 16th-century fortification located in Lisbon, Portugal, which served as a point of embarkation and disembarkation for Portuguese explorers and as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon. The tower symbolizes Portugal's maritime and colonial power in early modern Europe.
8 km · fortified tower located in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém in the municipality of Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 02Jerónimos Monastery
The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery ʒɨˈɾɔnimuʃ]) is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in the parish of Belém, in the Lisbon Municipality, Portugal. It became the necropolis of the Portuguese royal dynasty of Aviz in the 16th century but was secularized on 28 December 1833 by state decree and its ownership transferred to the charitable institution, Real Casa Pia de Lisboa.
8 km · building in Santa Maria de Belém, Lisbon District, Portugal · Wikipedia - 03Estádio 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.
7.1 km · football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 04University 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.
9.3 km · public research university in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 05Estádio 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.
9.2 km · football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 0625 de Abril Bridge
The 25 de Abril Bridge ˈsĩku dɨ ɐˈbɾil]) is a suspension bridge connecting the city of Lisbon, capital of Portugal, with the municipality of Almada on the left bank of the Tagus River. It has a main span length of 1,013 metres, making it the 56th longest suspension bridge in the world.
10 km · suspension bridge in Portugal · Wikipedia - 07Padrão dos Descobrimentos
The Monument of the Discoveries is a monument on the northern bank of the Tagus River estuary, in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém, Lisbon. Located along the river where ships departed to explore and trade with India and the Orient, the monument celebrates the Portuguese Age of Discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries.
8.3 km · memorial in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia - 08Estádio Nacional
The Estádio Nacional, also known as Estádio do Jamor, Estádio Nacional do Jamor or Estádio de Honra, is a multi-purpose stadium located within the Centro Desportivo Nacional do Jamor. Located in the municipality of Oeiras some 12 kilometres from the centre of the national capital Lisbon, the stadium has a capacity of 37,593 spectators.
4.8 km · football national stadium in Oeiras, Portugal · Wikipedia - 09National Library of Portugal
The National Library of Portugal is the Portuguese national library.
9.9 km · Portuguese national library, fulfilling the function of legal deposit and copyright · Wikipedia - 10Calouste 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.
9.9 km · art museum in Lisbon, Portugal · Wikipedia
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Getting to Queluz
- Airports
- Lisbon Humberto Delgado (LIS), 12 km · Faro - Gago Coutinho (FAO), 224 km · Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO), 282 km
- Stations
- Jardim Zoológico station, 8.5 km · Praça de Espanha station, 9.4 km · Carnide station, 6.5 km · São Sebastião station, 9.9 km · Alto dos Moinhos station, 7.5 km
- Faro → Queluz226 km · quickest by road, 3h 58m · €29–40
- Porto → Queluz272 km · quickest by air, 4h 22m · €100–150
- Seville → Queluz323 km · quickest by road, 6h 22m · €47–65
- 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 Queluz
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 Queluz. 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 Queluz
Queluz is 11 km from Lisbon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.