São Jorge Castle Castle is the city’s most emblematic and most visited monument. The hill on which the Castle stands has played an important part in the history of Lisbon, having served as the location of fortifications occupied successively by Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, and Moors, before its conquest by the Portuguese in the 1147 Siege of Lisbon. Since the 12th century, the castle has variously served as a royal palace, a military barracks, home of the Torre do Tombo National Archive, and now as a national monument and museum.

The Lisbon Cathedral is one of Portugal’s most important religious buildings and one of Lisbon’s oldest monuments. Built on the orders of the first Portuguese king, Afonso Henriques, it still retains its character as a medieval fortress.
Soon after the Christian reconquest of Lisbon, in 1147, the the city’s Cathedral was built in place of the Greater Mosque, which, in turn, had been built on an old Visigothic church, during the Muslim occupation. Remains of the old church and Mosque can still be found inside.
 

The National Pantheon, originally built as a church in the 16th century, is a grand Baroque building which houses the tombs of the country’s most distinguished figures.
Such as politicians, authors, diplomats, poets, singers, military, athletes.

One of the most iconic images of Lisbon, the Aqueduct of Águas Livres provided the whole city with fresh drinking water when it was built in 1744, and withstood the 1755 earthquake. The ambitious baroque and neoclassical-style project is over 14 km in length. The most visible part of this magnificent structure is the Alcântara section which crosses the entire valley. It has 21 round arches and 14 pointed ones, the largest of which is 65 metres high and 29 metres across, making it the world’s largest.

Estrela Basilica was ordered built by Queen Maria I of Portugal as the fulfilment of a vow, the Basilica is not only a product of the Queen’s particularly fervent devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, but remains the most important architectural endeavour of her reign. The Estrela Basilica was the first church in the world dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

This majestic triumphal arch of the Arch of da Rua Augusta is the noble gateway onto the interior of the “Downtown”. It symbolises the rebirth of a new Lisbon after the tragedy of the earthquake, fire and tsunami in 1755. At the top stand the sculptures represent figures of our history: Marquis of Pombal, Vasco da Gama, Viriato and Nuno Álvares Pereira. Now you can visit the top of this unique structure for a truly singular and impressive view of Downtown and the river.