Holidaying in Lisbon

Bloged in travel by admin Friday October 10, 2008

About Lisbon

Lisbon, a city of awesome nightlife and legendary monuments, is the capital of Portugal and is now better known as Europe’s cosmopolitan center.

Most famous places of Lisbon

The Gulbenkian museum

St. Jorge’s castle- This place from where you could see and enjoy a wonderful view of the city. You could reach there walking and that way you could also enjoy the beauty of ancient and nearby city named alfama.

Santa justa’s elevator-this elevator connects the downtown to a place called trinidade which is located several meters uphill.
Praca do comercio-A wonderful mall.
Belem-this is a nearby place full of monuments. Here we could see the world’s largest collection of coaches and royal vehicles in the famous coach museum.
Chiado-this place is the hub of the city’s most famous nightclubs. Just go to an uphill place named bairro and soothe your eyes with spectacular view of the entire place
Downtown (baixa)-. The deliberate design of this rebuild place destroyed in an earthquake is a must watch for all visitors.
Ponte 25 de abril-this is a bridge connecting Lisbon and setubal peninsula across the river tagus(tejo).
Cristo rei-just climb at the top of this 100 meters tall statue for a breathtaking view.
Jardim zoologico- dolphins and sea-lions are major attraction here.
Parque das nacoes-this place is having one of the world’s largest aquariums
Lisbon metro-it’s a sort of free art gallery.
Fundacao arpad szenes

Hotel accomodations

Here you could find several hotels providing quality service to their guests. These hotels are having meeting and dinner services as well and this way they enable you to turn your leisure cum work trip a memorable experience. The working staff in these hotels does their level best to ensure comfort to their guests.

Food

Here you could find a large and delicious variety of sea food. Lisbon’s cuisine is well famed for using large number of spices its delicious salted cod and pork. Some of its popular dishes include bacalhua, caldeira, cozida a portuguesa, pasties de nata and almost all kind of sea food.

Shopping

What makes the shopping variety in Lisbon special is the beautiful variety of hand woven things like baskets. Here you could find an amazing variety of copper utensils, eye catchy embroideries, beautiful laces, pottery, different artistic materials and popular stonewares.

Festivities

The most famous festivities here are Lisbon’s well famed saint’s celebrations ,montijo’s famous S. Pedro festival ,Festas do Colete Encarnado, Estoril Handicrafts Fair , Santiago Fair and The Sea Festival.

Museum

Lisbon is also famous for its various museums like Ancient Art, Theater and Modern Art Center. Some of the famous churches include São Vicente de Fora;, Madre Deus, Santa Engrácia Pantheon and the Estrela Basilica.