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Lisbon Free Walking Tour: The Heart of the City, its History and Plenty of Local Tips
Take is a small local company that wants to show its cities to the world. We have a team of talented and passionate guides who want to show you the nooks and crannies, secrets and stories of our unforgettable city. Come and discover Lisbon, Porto, Braga and Guimarães and all the charms and charisma of Portugal. 2018, 2019 & 2020 Certificates of Excellence by TripAdvisor.
Tour description
Our Heart of Lisbon Free Walking Tour was created to offer you the very core of Lisbon. Step by step, street by street, we will reveal to you the city that was the harbor of the Phoenicians, the happiness of the Romans and the capital of the Discoveries. The Lisbon Free Tour is ideal as an introduction to the city and we will have dozens of suggestions and advice to share. A tour not to be missed in an unforgettable city.
In our Lisbon Free Tour we will visit the cosmopolitan Chiado & the enlightened Baixa.
Unmissable sites and the stories around it like the Church of Carmo, the Elevator of Santa Justa, the plaza Dom Pedro IV, the Church of São Domingos, the Triumphal Arch and the astonishing Praça do Comércio are some of the places we will visit together.
Join us and learn the meaning of the word Saudade!.
What will we visit on this tour?
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Meeting point:Restauradores, 1249-970 Lisboa, PortugalRestauradores, 1249-970 Lisboa, PortugalDirections
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1Outside visitMonumento aos Restauradores
We kick off the tour at the Monumento aos Restauradores. This plaza opens up to Avenida da Liberdade and celebrates the moment when Portugal regained independence from Spain in 1640.
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2Outside visitEstação do Rossio
Another beautiful monument in the center of the city, the Rossio train station establishes a dialogue with the Jerónimos Monastery in Belém.
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3Free admissionLargo de São Domingos
This is the place where the Jewish Massacre took place in 1506. Learn more about this impressive story and discover one of the most beautiful churches in the city, the Igreja de São Domingos.
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4Outside visitPraça da Figueira
Once an important market in the city, Praça da Figueira is now a busy spot at the city center.
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5Outside visitPraça D. Pedro IV
Rossio is a place rich in recent Portuguese history, when Lisbon was a center of espionage battles in the 2nd World War. But there's plenty more to discover here.
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6Outside visitRua Augusta
The main artery of Lisbon's downtown and one of the most photographed places in the city.
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7Outside visitRua do Carmo
The entrance from Rossio to Chiado, the cultural center of the city.
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8Outside visitElevador de Santa Justa
Another Lisbon landmark. Lisbon has a handfull of elevators but this one is really the one to look at. Yet another recent monument like the Estação do Rossio, the Santa Justa Elevator stands out with the Church of Carmo just behind it.
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9Outside visitConvento do Carmo
The living testimony of the great earthquake of 1755, the gothic church of Carmo is another unmissable monument in Lisbon, where medieval history merges with the April Revolution of 1974.
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10Outside visitLargo do Carmo
This is where the dictator Marcelo Caetano presented is surrender to the people of Portugal. A meaningful place in our recent history.
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11Outside visitCasa do Ferreira das Tabuletas | Rua Trindade
Post earthquake, this is probably one of the most beautiful tilled houses in the country.
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12Outside visitIgreja de São Roque
This is where the Company of Jesus built there first temple back in the XVI century. It's also the place where the lottery was announced one hundred years ago.
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13Outside visitBairro Alto
Once the city's most modern district, Bairro Alto is the bohemian place in Lisbon. With over 500 years of stories, Bairro Alto is in the heart of every true Lisboeta.
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14Outside visitTasca do Chico
If you ever want to listen to amateur Fado, this is the place to be.
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15Outside visitLuís de Camões Square
The prince of poets, the inventor of the Portuguese language, Camões stands above everyone else. Only one thing surpassed his work: his incredible aventurous life.
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16Outside visitLargo do Chiado
The entrance to Chiado from Bairro Alto. Stories of coffee, Fernando Pessoa and Chiado himself are here to be told.
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17Outside visitTeatro Nacional de São Carlos
The most beautiful theatre in Portugal, São Carlos has plenty to discover.
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18Outside visitCalçada Nova de São Francisco
Still in Chiado, we will wander around its streets and secrets.
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19Outside visitArco da Rua Augusta
The Arch of Triumph. It speaks for itself.
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20Outside visitPraça do Comércio
Lisbon's largest plaza, an amazing place to finish our walking tour.
How much does this tour cost?
Free tours do not have a set price, instead, each person gives the guru at the end of the tour the amount that he or she considers appropriate (these usually range from €10 to $50 depending on satisfaction with the tour).
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