Set on Praca Afonso de Albuquerque in the historic Belem district of western Lisbon, the Palacio Nacional de Belem has been the official residence of the Portuguese head of state continuously since the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic in 1910. The palace is a substantial pink-painted complex of buildings developed in stages between the late seventeenth and early twentieth centuries and serves both as the principal working office and the principal ceremonial residence of the current Portug.....

Standing approximately one hundred metres offshore in the central Tagus estuary at the western Belem district of Lisbon, the Torre de Belem is one of the most internationally recognised individual monuments of the Portuguese capital and one of the principal surviving examples of the distinctive late Gothic Portuguese Manueline architectural style. The tower was completed in 1519 and originally served as a substantial military fortification guarding the western maritime approach to the central po.....

Sprawling across the central Belem district approximately seven kilometres west of central Lisbon, the Mosteiro dos Jeronimos is one of the most architecturally distinguished surviving examples of the wider Portuguese late Gothic Manueline architectural style. The substantial monastery covers approximately three hundred metres of continuous monumental frontage along the principal northern side of the great Praca do Imperio square and was originally completed in stages between 1501 and 1601. The.....

Housed in a substantial converted warehouse on Rua da Cintura do Porto de Lisboa in the central Alcantara district of Lisbon, the Museu do Oriente is the principal museum of the wider Portuguese colonial and trading relationship with the various Asian regions of the wider international community. The museum is operated by the Fundacao Oriente and opened on 8 May 2008 in the substantial converted Comercio Geral do Bacalhau cod commercial warehouse on the central Alcantara docks. The Fundacao Ori.....

Housed in a substantial purpose-built modern museum building on Avenida da India in the historic central Belem district of Lisbon, the Museu Nacional dos Coches is the principal Portuguese national collection of historic royal carriages and ceremonial coaches. The current substantial new museum building opened on 23 May 2015 and is one of the principal contemporary purpose-built museum facilities anywhere in central Portugal, with the principal exhibition gallery housing around seventy individua.....

Set on Avenida da Ilha da Madeira in the central Restelo district of western Lisbon, the Museu Nacional de Etnologia is the principal Portuguese national ethnographic museum and one of the principal continuing centres of the wider Portuguese anthropological and ethnographic research community. The museum was originally founded in 1965 by the Portuguese ethnologist Jorge Dias as the Museu de Etnologia do Ultramar and was substantially expanded and renamed during the post-1974 revolutionary period.....

Set in the substantial Palacio dos Condes de Alvor on Rua das Janelas Verdes in the central Lapa district of Lisbon, the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga is the principal Portuguese national art collection covering the principal centuries of European, African and Asian art collected by the wider Portuguese royal and aristocratic communities continuously from the medieval period through to the early nineteenth century. The wider museum was originally founded in 1884 and is the largest single Portugu.....

Set on the substantial elevated Ajuda hillside in the historic Ajuda district of western Lisbon, the Palacio Nacional da Ajuda is the principal surviving substantial royal palace complex of the wider Portuguese Kingdom of Portugal of the early nineteenth century. The substantial principal palace complex was originally commissioned by King Joao VI in 1796 as the principal new permanent royal residence of the wider Portuguese royal family following the substantial destruction of the various centra.....

Standing on the substantial waterfront Avenida Brasilia in the historic central Belem district of Lisbon, the Padrao dos Descobrimentos or Monument to the Discoveries is one of the most distinctive single monumental sculptures of the historic central Portuguese capital. The substantial principal monument was originally completed in its current substantial concrete form on 9 August 1960 to commemorate the five-hundredth anniversary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator, the famous fifteenth-.....

A substantial nine-hundred-hectare urban forest covering the principal Monsanto hilltop and the western slopes of the wider central Lisbon hillside, the Parque Florestal de Monsanto is the largest single urban park anywhere in central Portugal and accounts for approximately ten per cent of the entire municipal area of Lisbon. The park was originally established in 1934 by Duarte Pacheco, the principal Portuguese urban planner of the wider Estado Novo regime of the 1930s. The Monsanto hillside h.....