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Graça

A hilltop neighbourhood of viewpoints and local life.

Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Less touristy than Alfama, it keeps workers' villages, taverns and two of the city's best viewpoints.

Top sights

Viewpoints · Graça

Miradouro Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

On Largo da Graça, this viewpoint bears Sophia’s name and offers a view stretching from the castle to the river.

Viewpoints · Graça

Miradouro da Senhora do Monte

Graça's highest point, facing the castle and the river.

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Featured in these itineraries

Day trips from Lisbon that pair with this area

Beach · Heritage

Sesimbra

A fishing town between beach and castle: walk the waterfront, enjoy the bay and save energy for the climb to the medieval enclosure.

  • 5-6 hours
  • about 40 km
  • Bus, Car
  • Partial accessibility
  • Booking recommended

Heritage

Azeitão

Explore Vila Nogueira de Azeitão and its wine heritage, with a visit to the José Maria da Fonseca house-museum if you confirm a place ahead.

  • 4-6 hours
  • about 40 km
  • Bus, Car
  • Partial accessibility
  • Booking recommended

Nature · Beach

Setúbal and the Arrábida hills

A riverside city with a lively market and fish on the Sado, and limestone hills above the sea with some of the clearest beaches near Lisbon.

  • 8-11 hours
  • about 50 km
  • Train, Bus, Car
  • Partial accessibility
  • No booking needed

Nature · Beach · Heritage

Arrábida, Sesimbra and Setúbal

Start at Mercado do Livramento, cross Arrábida’s landscape on the N379-1 where permitted and finish in Sesimbra’s town centre and beach.

  • 9-11 hours
  • about 50 km
  • Car
  • Partial accessibility
  • No booking needed

Heritage

Évora, the Alentejo's museum city

A UNESCO-listed old town with a Roman temple, cathedral and whitewashed streets inside the walls, about an hour and a half away by train.

  • 9-12 hours
  • about 135 km
  • Train, Bus, Car
  • Partial accessibility
  • No booking needed

Heritage

Évora

An independent day linking the Roman Temple, cathedral, Chapel of Bones and university, travelling from Lisbon and back by Intercidades train.

  • 10-12 hours
  • about 135 km
  • Train, Car
  • Partial accessibility
  • Booking recommended

Neighbouring areas

On the agenda nearby

Source: Agenda Cultural de Lisboa (CC BY). Events

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