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Lisbon. / 38.72528°N 9.15000°W / 38.72528; -9.15000. Lisbon ( / ˈlɪzbən /; Portuguese: Lisboa [liʒˈβoɐ] ⓘ) [3] is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 548,703 as of 2022 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km 2. [4]
- Lisbon Cathedral
The Cathedral of Saint Mary Major (Portuguese: Santa Maria...
- Belém Tower
The Belém Tower was added on 7 July 2007 to the registry of...
- Vasco Da Gama Bridge
The Vasco da Gama Bridge (Portuguese: Ponte Vasco da Gama;...
- List of Tallest Buildings in Lisbon
Vasco da Gama Tower, an observation tower, is the tallest...
- Estremadura
Estremadura Province (Portuguese pronunciation:...
- Port of Lisbon
The Port of Lisbon (Portuguese: Porto de Lisboa) is the...
- Rua Augusta Arch
The Rua Augusta Arch (Portuguese: Arco da Rua Augusta) is a...
- Lisbon Metropolitan Area
The Lisbon Metropolitan Area (Portuguese: Área Metropolitana...
- Oldest Cities in The World
This is a list of present-day cities by the time period over...
- Gare Do Oriente
Sources. Cerqueira, Luís; Gregório, Miguel (2004), A...
- Lisbon Cathedral
A new chapter in the history of Lisbon was written with the social revolution of the 1383–1385 Crisis. This was a time of civil war in Portugal when no crowned king reigned. It began when King Ferdinand I of Portugal died without male heirs, and his kingdom ostensibly passed to the King of Castile, John I of Castile.
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Civil parishes
The municipality of Lisbon have 24 freguesias (civil parishes).
Metro
The Lisbon Metro connects the city centre to different districts, it also reaches some suburbs around the Lisbon metropolitan area, like Amadora and Loures.
Trams
Trams are a traditional public transport in Lisbon. It was first introduced in 1901, many of the electric trams were originally imported from the US, and were called americanos. Trams in Lisbon are coloured yellow and is one of the tourist icons of the city, and their size is great for steep hills and narrow streets of the central city.
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Portugal, [e] officially the Portuguese Republic, [f] is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, its mainland west and south border with the North Atlantic Ocean and in ...
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Lisbon is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 548,703 as of 2022 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Lisbon is mainland Europe's westernmost capital city and the only one along the Atlantic coast, the others being on islands. The city lies in the western portion of the Iberian Peninsula, on the northern shore of the River Tagus. The ...
Lisbon - Capital, Portugal, Age of Discovery: The valley in which the heart of Lisbon now lies was, in prehistoric times, the bed of a forked branch of the Tagus River. (The subway now forks at the same spot.) No evidence has been uncovered to show who were the first residents on the hills surrounding the valley. Although it seems likely that the city was founded about 1200 bce as a trading ...
Lisbon is the capital city of Portugal. It is the largest city of Portugal. The city has a population of about half million people. In Lisbon's urban area live around 2.8 million people, being the 10th-most populous urban area in the European Union. Lisbon is placed on the right bank (western) of the Tagus River, near the outfall. It has a pleasant climate and has about 220 days of sunshine ...
