Portugal: Grande Lisboa: Lisboa

geoveo
Rugby

A question about this place:
I will be going to Lisboa at the end of November for one week. What are the highlights of the city that I should not miss? Will 7 days be too much time in the city, should I split some days and go to another place, if so where would you suggest?

Answers:

wafel9
Amsterdam

Hi! The city is beautiful, you should see all the standard monuments, but what I like most personally is simply the atmosphere and the small streets all over.. just walking around.

7 days might be a bit much, but transportation out of the city is cheap, so it’s a good city to use as home base. I went to Sintra and Cascais (both about 40min by train, EUR 3 for a train return ticket).. that was amazing.

geoveo
Rugby

Thanks for your tips. We are now planing 3 days in the city staying in Rossio area. Then taking a day/night trip to Obidos, then 3 days at Sintra/Cascais.

geoveo
Rugby

Just back and Lisbon was lovely. The sun shone every day from a blue, blue sky though it was cold when the wind blew; this was the last week in November. A very easy city to walk around and a delight to jump on a tram an clatter through some very pictuesque areas. We stayed for 3 nights at the hotel Florescente. A superb location on the edge of Rossio. Took a trip by tram to Belem which couldn’t have been much easier as the tram terminates in Lisbon at Praca Da Figueira, just a few minutes walk from the hotel which is just behind the Teatro Maria II in Praca Dom Pedro IV (Rossio Square) pictured above.

I now intend to discover more about the history of Lisbon (and Portugal) and must go back again with a bit more knowledge and time to visit more of this delightful city. The city itself seems so bijou and compact that I couldn’t believe the extent of the suburbs and outer areas, they are vast, such an unexpected contrast to the central area.