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Alta de Lisboa
Community in Portugal

Alta de Lisboa

Alta de Lisboa is a Portuguese community on the northern edge of Lisbon.

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The community covers an area of roughly 3 square kilometres.

How locals move

Getting around Alta de Lisboa the local way

  • 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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