Museums & Monuments

Discover all of the city’s museums and monuments. Whether you have a pre-defined list of interests or prefer to go with the flow, here you can check out all the cultural venues and museums in the city, from major icons to the most unexpected of collections. From historic places to the most recent museum and architecture projects, there is much to see in a city which is constantly reinventing itself. From the classic to the contemporary, visual arts to performing arts, listed monuments to new interactive exhibitions, in Lisbon there is always a unique show to see or an impressive monument to visit. And this is the place to find them.

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Located in the centre of Sesimbra Bay, Santiago Fort was part of the line of defences protecting the entrances to the Douro, Tejo and Sado rivers.

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This imposing and formal site, between two of the most popular beaches on this part of the coast, is one of Portugal’s largest maritime military structures.

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Visit one of the largest known collections of epigraphs and an exhibition about the “Book of Stone”, covering 2, 000 years of history, very close to Sintra.

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São Roque Museum is one of the most beautiful and complete museums of Portuguese religious art.

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Come and discover this unique church and its history, which dates back to the reconquest of Lisbon and the centuries that followed right up to today.