
Belém Cultural Centre
Local name: Centro Cultural de Belém
This stop replaces the imperial scenography with Portugal’s controversial construction project within the new Europe.
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Highlights include Belém Cultural Centre, Belém Tower, Bom Sucesso Dock, Cais das Colunas, Cais do Sodré and Pink Street, Carmo Convent and Largo do Carmo.
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Local name: Centro Cultural de Belém
This stop replaces the imperial scenography with Portugal’s controversial construction project within the new Europe.
This stop replaces the imperial scenography with Portugal’s controversial construction project within the new Europe.
The finale will test the river fortress not by its decorative façade, but by one real attack.
This stop will return the story from the stone navigators to the people who tested ocean navigation in the air.
The royal family's public route will begin here, designed to project calm and cut short at the edge of the square.
The finale will show how temporary paint became a permanent transformation of a former port street.
Here, traces of the earthquake stand beside the barracks where the government agreed to surrender.
The finale will bring the cathedral revolt and the fortress walls together in a single December denouement.
Here, a major urban catastrophe comes down to a domestic way of raising money for a shared shrine.
You will need the interior to hear not only the names of the craftsmen, but also the dispute over the price of work already completed.
The square shows what the minister and the merchants used to replace the vanished royal palace.
Here it becomes clear which part of exhibition-era Belém outlasted the temporary pavilions.
A former utility building will show how performers agreed to entrust their craft to an archive.
This stop will link the royal burial place with the shore from which sea expeditions set out.
This stop shows how a private entrepreneur drew in audiences and changed the repertoire to follow their tastes.
The monument helps trace how a literary anniversary became a test of mass organization.
This stop will explain why, after an accident, the engineers completely changed how the line worked.
This stop will show how city rumor and someone else's decision could turn the main church into a trap.
This point establishes the route’s main theme: the vanished passage can explain the hill’s layout better than the better-preserved arch.
Here, a vanished church, the hill's surviving name, and two monuments from different periods come together.
Here the military frontier gives way to the story of how a church site can be lost for a century and regained.
Here, you will learn how an engineering failure left the city with a ready-made walking terrace.
Here, the permanent monument must be compared with its temporary exhibition original and its creator’s intent.
Here, a family product will open into the history of a closed monastery, sugar, and ownership of a recipe.
Here, the dispute over the constitution will move from parliament to armed townspeople.
On the main street, you can see how officials compelled owners to fill in the new city grid.
Here you will trace how a disgraced leader of reconstruction was restored to the country’s official story.
Here you will see how the clientele of one bar gradually took over neighboring buildings and streets.
Here, an engineer will turn the difference in height between Baixa and Carmo into a route for which passengers will pay.
Nearest audio-route stop: Church of Saint Anthony — 70 m in a straight line, route Alfama: from Portas do Sol to Castelo de São Jorge
Nearest audio-route stop: Belém Tower — 20 m in a straight line, route Belém by the Tagus: monastery, monuments and a river fortress
Nearest audio-route stop: Belém Cultural Centre — 140 m in a straight line, route Belém by the Tagus: monastery, monuments and a river fortress
Nearest audio-route stop: Rua Augusta and the Baixa grid — 100 m in a straight line, route Baixa and Carmo: rebuilding the city and its power
Nearest audio-route stop: Rua Augusta Arch — 50 m in a straight line, route Baixa and Carmo: rebuilding the city and its power
Nearest audio-route stop: Rossio — 110 m in a straight line, route Baixa and Carmo: rebuilding the city and its power
Nearest audio-route stop: Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara — 120 m in a straight line, route Evening Lisbon: Bairro Alto, Bica and Cais do Sodré
Nearest audio-route stop: Miradouro de Santa Luzia — 80 m in a straight line, route Alfama: from Portas do Sol to Castelo de São Jorge
Nearest audio-route stop: Church of Saint Anthony — 80 m in a straight line, route Alfama: from Portas do Sol to Castelo de São Jorge
Nearest audio-route stop: Fado Museum — 120 m in a straight line, route Alfama: from Portas do Sol to Castelo de São Jorge
Nearest audio-route stop: Rossio — 130 m in a straight line, route Baixa and Carmo: rebuilding the city and its power
Nearest audio-route stop: Church of São Miguel — 40 m in a straight line, route Alfama: from Portas do Sol to Castelo de São Jorge
Nearest audio-route stop: Miradouro das Portas do Sol — 90 m in a straight line, route Alfama: from Portas do Sol to Castelo de São Jorge
Nearest audio-route stop: Miradouro de Santa Luzia — 70 m in a straight line, route Alfama: from Portas do Sol to Castelo de São Jorge
Nearest audio-route stop: Jerónimos Monastery — 150 m in a straight line, route Belém by the Tagus: monastery, monuments and a river fortress
Nearest audio-route stop: Rossio — 120 m in a straight line, route Baixa and Carmo: rebuilding the city and its power
Nearest audio-route stop: Carmo Convent and Largo do Carmo — 80 m in a straight line, route Baixa and Carmo: rebuilding the city and its power
Nearest audio-route stop: Lisbon Cathedral (Lisbon Cathedral) — 30 m in a straight line, route Alfama: from Portas do Sol to Castelo de São Jorge
Nearest audio-route stop: Largo de Camões — 100 m in a straight line, route Evening Lisbon: Bairro Alto, Bica and Cais do Sodré
Nearest audio-route stop: Miradouro de Santa Catarina — 30 m in a straight line, route Evening Lisbon: Bairro Alto, Bica and Cais do Sodré
Nearest audio-route stop: Church of São Miguel — 60 m in a straight line, route Alfama: from Portas do Sol to Castelo de São Jorge
Nearest audio-route stop: Miradouro de Santa Catarina — 40 m in a straight line, route Evening Lisbon: Bairro Alto, Bica and Cais do Sodré
Nearest audio-route stop: Jerónimos Monastery — 40 m in a straight line, route Belém by the Tagus: monastery, monuments and a river fortress
Nearest audio-route stop: Belém Cultural Centre — 40 m in a straight line, route Belém by the Tagus: monastery, monuments and a river fortress
Nearest audio-route stop: Largo do Calhariz and the Bica Funicular — 100 m in a straight line, route Evening Lisbon: Bairro Alto, Bica and Cais do Sodré
Nearest audio-route stop: Miradouro de Santa Luzia — 60 m in a straight line, route Alfama: from Portas do Sol to Castelo de São Jorge
Nearest audio-route stop: Church of Saint Anthony — 130 m in a straight line, route Alfama: from Portas do Sol to Castelo de São Jorge
Nearest audio-route stop: Rossio — 140 m in a straight line, route Baixa and Carmo: rebuilding the city and its power
Nearest audio-route stop: Cais do Sodré and Pink Street — 100 m in a straight line, route Evening Lisbon: Bairro Alto, Bica and Cais do Sodré
Nearest audio-route stop: Commerce Square — 20 m in a straight line, route Baixa and Carmo: rebuilding the city and its power
Nearest audio-route stop: Belém Cultural Centre — 70 m in a straight line, route Belém by the Tagus: monastery, monuments and a river fortress
Nearest audio-route stop: Cais das Colunas — 80 m in a straight line, route Baixa and Carmo: rebuilding the city and its power
Nearest audio-route stop: Pastéis de Belém — 120 m in a straight line, route Belém by the Tagus: monastery, monuments and a river fortress