Lisbon in 3 days: the melancholy and beauty of a city that once ruled the world — Manueline stone carved with armillary spheres, fado in a 20-seat room, and the best custard tart ever made.
The only neighbourhood to survive the 1755 earthquake — blue azulejos, steep alleys and fado windows.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideMoorish fortress with peacocks in the bailey — the finest overview of the city from its ten towers.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideShredded cod with scrambled eggs, matchstick potatoes and olives at a formica-table tasca.
Graça and Senhora do Monte viewpoints — the full Lisbon skyline at golden hour.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe most intimate fado house in Lisbon — saudade sung 2 metres from you. Book weeks ahead.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe finest cloister in the world (after Mont-Saint-Michel) — ropes, corals and exotic flora in limestone.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe monks' secret custard tart, unchanged for 189 years, at the only licensed bakery. €1.30 each.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe 1519 river fortress — the last thing explorers saw before leaving for India and Brazil.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide1846 industrial complex reinvented — best Sunday market in Lisbon, bicycle floating over 3-storey library.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe most extraordinary concentration of 19th-century Romantic architecture in Europe.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideKing Ferdinand II's 1842 technicolor fairy-tale palace above the Atlantic forest.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe westernmost point of mainland Europe — 140m cliffs above the Atlantic, nothing to America.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideSour cherry liqueur in a chocolate cup at the Alfama viewpoint — the most Lisbon farewell.