Devoted to Lisbon’s urban song universe, Museu do Fado opened its doors to the public on the 25 September 1998, celebrating Fado’s exceptional value as an identifying symbol of the City of Lisbon, its deep roots in the tradition and cultural history of the country, its role in the cultural identity statement and its importance as an inspiration source and intercultural trade between people and communities. Fado was declared Intangible World Heritage by UNESCO, in November 2011.

OPENING TIMES
Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (last admission: 5.30 p.m.)
Closed on Mondays and January 1st, May 1st and December 25th

PRICES
Admission 5 euros
Reduced admission prices for: Cartão-jovem and students, children under 14 years of age and adults over 65 years of age, OAPs and other pensioners, organized groups and families, Lisboa Card

CONTACTS
Museu do Fado
Largo do Chafariz de Dentro, 1
Tel. (+351) 218 823 470
info@museudofado.pt
www.museudofado.pt
Photo: EGEAC (Empresa de Gestão de Equipamentos e Animação Cultural)

Santa Marta Museum Lighthouse, located near Marina of Cascais, was opened to the public in July 2007 as a cultural space, but it has kept its coastline signing functions. The exposition, the documentation centre and the cafeteria of the museum are located in the former residences of the lighthouse keepers and platforms.

It is a journey through time along the lighthouse universe, divided by several themes: Portugal’s lighthouses; Santa Marta fort and lighthouse; lighthouses and their role in navigation; the work of the lighthouse keeper. The visit also includes the projection of a documentary called “Portugal’s Lighthouses, Five Centuries of History”.

Location
Rua do Farol, Cascais

Contacts
Tel.: 214 815 328
fmsm@cm-cascais.pt

Hours
Tuesday to Friday: from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Weekends: from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Closed every Monday

Access
By car
Park just beside Cidadela de Cascais.

By train
At Cascais Train Station you may go by foot or you can take the BusCas.

By bus
BusCas (Cascais public bus every 10 minutes).

JOANA VASCONCELOS (1971) lives and works in Lisbon. In 2012, she became the first woman and the youngest artist to present her work at the Palace of Versailles in France. Exhibitions in Venice include The World Belongs to You, where Contamination (2008-10) was shown alongside other works from the collection of the Fondation François Pinault at Palazzo Grassi in 2011; and in 2005, The Bride [2001-05] was presented at the Venice Biennale, where it greeted visitors at the entrance of the Arsenale. Her key solo shows include institutions such as the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves (Porto, 2000); Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville, 2003); Passage du Désir/BETC EURO RSCG (Paris, 2005); The New Art Gallery Walsall(Walsall, 2007); Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo, 2008); Es Baluard (Palma de Mallorca, 2009); Museu Coleção Berardo (Lisbon, 2010); and Kunsthallen Brandts (Odense, 2011). Her work is represented in private and public collections, including the AMOREPACIFIC Museum of Art; Caixa Geral de Depósitos; Câmara Municipal de Lisboa; Coleção António Cachola; Domaine Pommery; Fundação EDP; Fundación Helga de Alvear; Fondation François Pinault; Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la Création; MUSAC; Museu Coleção Berardo. Her work is often described as seductive, lush, humorous and irreverent. Her creations are very large in scale; usually objects we recognize, but sculpted with materials completely far removed from the subject matter itself. This is the ingenious, wacky, innovative, crazy, joyful mind of Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos.

http://www.ilovelisboa.pt/en 
http://www.joanavasconcelos-pnajuda.pt/en/joana-vasconcelos

LISBON FISH &FLAVOURS from 4th to 14th April, at Pátio da Galé, Terreiro do Paço 10 RESTAURANTS with fish and see food to taste, open daily from midday to midnight.

LIVE GASTRONOMIC PRESENTATIONS by renowned chefs from Portugal and abroad.

COOKING CLASSES to learn tips and tricks with reputed chefs from Portugal.

GOURMET MARKET with dozen of products to taste and purchase.

PAIRINGS based on fish and seafood to combine with wines.

COME AND HAVE FUN!

http://www.peixemlisboa.com

Urban City Guides site has named Lisbon 4th in its top 10 list of the most beautiful cities in the world to visit after Venice, Paris and Prague. The site describes the Portuguese capital as being “magnificently sited on a series of hills running down to the grand Tagus River” with amazing views and “every turn down picturesque streets.” The city attributes also include “an unpolished, seductive appearance; an effortless beauty with captivating details”. In the same ranking, Rio de Janeiro was placed in 5th place.

Urban City Guides has also placed Portugal 6th in its top 10 list of beautiful countries in the word to visit, together with Italy, Spain, France, Australia, Greece, USA, Brazil, South Africa and Germany.

http://www.ucityguides.com/cities/top-10-most-beautiful-cities.html

http://www.ucityguides.com/cities/top-10-most-beautiful-countries-in-the-world.html

The Lisbon Zoo invites you to spend an unforgettable day in the center of Lisbon. Dare to be kissed by a Sea Lion and to feel a Snake’s skin. Be surprised by the cable car view and go on the Zoo’s train for a different perspective.

Don’t miss the opportunity to participate in the Sea Lions feeding session and in the Pelicans’ one. Have fun in the Dolphins’ Bay, and come meet Birds and Reptiles from all over the world in our Enchanted Forest. For the youngest we have the Children’s Farm where there’s a lot from them to learn. Among many other possible areas, visit the Primates’ Temple and the Tigers’ Valley. In our Zoo we have around 2000 animals waiting your visit of 360 different species.

In the Zoo’s Shop you’ll find a wide variety of funny, different and educative products with the Lisbon Zoo signature. Nature, animals and ecology are the themes to all our products.

Visitor Information

- The picnic area has tables and benches, WC and lots of shadow for the perfect family lunch;- Please note, there is no provision for left luggage.

Main Entrance

Praça Marechal Humberto Delgado

Sete-Rios metro station and bus stop

Phone: (+ 351) 217 232 900

Email: info@zoo.pt

Open every day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

http://www.zoo.pt/attractions.aspx

Opened in 1993, the cultural centre Casa Fernando Pessoa was conceived by the Lisbon City Council as a tribute to the poet and his memory in the city where he lived and at Campo de Ourique – a traditionally neighbourhood linked to artists and intellectuals, where he spent his last fifteen years.

Casa Fernando Pessoa has an auditorium, a garden, exhibition rooms, works of art, a library dedicated to poetry, and also an area with furniture and personal items of the poet. The cultural center also provides to its visitors poetry readings, meetings with authors, concerts and theatre, lectures, workshops, art exhibitions, book launches and children’s ateliers in a calendar of diversified events.

Opening times:

Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. – Free Admission every day

Rua Coelho da Rocha, 16

Campo de Ourique, Lisboa

Tel.: +351 213 913 270

info@casafernandopessoa.pt

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The Aqueduto das Águas Livres will reopen to the general public in Mars, after being closed since last December. Recently opened, walk across this majestic Aqueduct following a 941m long path, from Campolide to Monsanto, and at 65m height enjoy the panoramic view over the city.

The Aqueduct was built in the 18^th century by king John V, to supply fresh water to the city of Lisbon, and spans the Alcântara valley with a series of 35 long arches. It is also one of the monuments that survived to the historic earthquake in 1755.

General information:

Travessia do Vale de Alcântara – entrance by Calçada da Quintinha, 6

Ticket price – 2 euros (individual or group visitors)

Opening hours from 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.

Closed on Sundays, Mondays and holidays

http://www.servicoaguaslivres.com

Tapada Nacional de Mafra was created during King João V’s realm as a part of the monarchy’s and his court’s entertainment and leisure after the construction of the Convent. Today it stands out as a natural patrimony of unique features with an area of over eight hundred hectares where red deers, fallow deers, wild boars, foxes, birds of prey and many other species dwell in a scenery of an unusual rich and diversified flora.

Not only is the Tapada de Mafra interesting due to its natural patrimony but also because of its Museums. The former undoubtedly plays and important role in awareness activities and in environmental education and the latter comprise the Tojeira Museum with its antique fire arm collection and the collection of red deer’s and fallow deer’s antlers. The Car Museum of Animal Traction with its breques, aranhas, landaus, vitórias, faytons, coupés and other cars of the nineteenth century. All of this make the Tapada de Mafra a necessary stop in every quality tour guide of the Lisbon region.

The Tapada de Mafra has a great variety of activities and services at your disposal however it does so bearing in mind its constant harmony with nature. The public in general can visit and travel in the Tapada by articulated train or by following its pedestrian trails.

Contact information:

Tapada Nacional de Mafra

Portão do Codeçal, 2640-602 Mafra

Opening hours from 9.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.

GPS coordinates

38º57’53 N

009º18’09 W

Phone:

+351 261 817 050 (weekdays)

+351 261 814 240 (weekends and public holidays)

geral@tapadademafra.pt

Anyone with a sweet tooth shouldn’t miss the chance to take part in the International Chocolate Festival in Óbidos.

During several days the medieval town’s narrow streets will be transformed into genuine showcases of cakes and sweets that everyone can sample and purchase.

For younger visitors, the “Kids’ Chocolate House” offers recreational and pedagogical activities and a kitchen where they can prepare several recipes.

Adults can attend culinary classes where chocolate is always the base ingredient and also watch competitions involving professional pastry-makers, such as the “Chocolatier of the Year” and the “International Competition of Chocolate Recipes”, and also marvel at an array of chocolate sculptures – genuine works of art.

Place: Óbidos
Date: Friday, 22nd February 2013 – Sunday, 17th March 2013

Website: http://www.festivalchocolate.cm-obidos.pt/