Category: Monuments in Lisbon

Schedules of Belém Tower

• From 9:30am to 6:00pm, the last ticket sales time is at 5:00pm and the last entry is at 5:30pm.

Close: Mondays, 1 January, Easter Sunday, May 1, June 13, December 25.

Morada: Avenida de Brasília. 1400-038 Lisboa.

Link to Official website

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Belém Tower ticket

• Ticket: 6,00 euros.

 

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Discounts of 50 %
• Visitors aged 65 or older.
• Student’s card (not for study visits).
• Youth Card.
• Family ticket (minimum 4 members of near family or similar).

Exemptions: Proof of entitlement required.
– The entrance is free in National Museums and Monuments at sundays and holidays until 2 p.m. for residents in Portugal.
– Children aged 12 and under.
– Unemployed EU citizens.
– Visitors with reduced mobility (60% disability with documents to prove it) accompanied by one attendant.
– ICOM, ICOMOS and APOM members, Journalists, Researchers /conservators/restorers, museum and/or heritage professionals during the course of their work.
– Cultural associations (exclusively for groups of friends of museums, monuments, palaces, castles and archaeological sites).
– Volunteers working for the DGPC with one accompanying person.
– European Heritage Days (Sunday).
– International Day of Monuments and Sites – 18 April (exclusively for DGPC Monuments).
– International Museum Day – 18 May (exclusively for DGPC museums and palaces).
– Late-night Museums and Thursday Nights (access restricted to activities organised by the DGPC).
– Teachers and students of any level of education, including universities for senior citizens, during study visits duly proven, and upon prior reservation confirmed by the relevant Dependent Service.
– Groups of accredited Portuguese welfare institutions or social work departments of municipalities or other public interest institutions. Prior approval is required from the DGPC executive board.

Belém Tower history

The Tower of Belém, also called the Tower of São Vicente, was built by Dom Manuel 1, due to the success of the maritime campaigns. Built in a military architectural style at the beginning of the 16th century, between 1514 and 1519, as a defensive tower for the city of Lisbon. to avoid pirate attacks due to products arriving in Lisbon from India.

In 1983 it was classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and chosen as one of the Seven Wonders of Portugal in 2007.

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Cellphone: +351 969 550 167

Phone: +351 211 315 522

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Schedules of Ruins and Archaeological Museum of Carmo

From Monday to Saturday
November to April of 2023: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
May to October of 2023: 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Easter week: from 10 am to 7 pm
December 26th to January 6th: from 10 am to 7 pm

Close: On Sundays, January 1st, May 1st and December 25th.

Address: Largo do Carmo, 1200-092 Lisboa.

Link to official site

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Ruins and Archaeological Museum of Carmo tickets

– Adult ticket 5.00 euros.
– Student ticket 4.00 euros.
– Ticket 65 and over 4.00 euros.
– Lisbon Card ticket 4.00 euros.
– Ticket until 14 years Free.
– Ticket for groups of more than 30 people 4.00 euros.
– Ticket Persons with Reduced Mobility 4.00 euros.
– Free ICOM Membership.
– Guided Tour 5.00 euros.
– Senior or Student Guided Tour 4.00 euros.

 

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History of Ruins and Archaeological Museum of Carmo

The construction of the Carmo church dates back to 1389, driven by the desire and religious devotion of its founder, the Constable of the Kingdom, D. Nuno Álvares Pereira. Built on the hill opposite the castle of S. Jorge, due to its grandeur and monumentality, it rivaled the Cathedral of Lisbon and the Convent of S. Francisco in the same city. From an early age, this religious space was considered emblematic of the city of Lisbon and of the national identity itself, due to the fact that it was associated with the name of one of the most famous Portuguese heroes of the Middle Ages. By choosing the Carmo church for his burial, Nuno Álvares Pereira decisively marked the entire history of the Gothic monument.
The church and convent received several additions and alterations over time, adapting to new tastes and architectural and decorative styles, transforming itself into one of the richest and most powerful constructions in Lisbon. In 1755, the earthquake, which violently shook the city, caused serious damage to the building, aggravated by the subsequent fire that almost completely destroyed its contents. In 1756, its reconstruction began, already in neo-Gothic style, definitively interrupted in 1834, due to the extinction of the Religious Orders in Portugal. The pillars and arches of the naves date from this period of reconstruction, which are a true testimony of experimental neo-Gothic architecture, of a scenographic nature. In the mid-19th century, with the romantic taste for ruins and ancient medieval monuments prevailing, it was decided not to continue with the reconstruction of the building, leaving the body of the church’s naves open to the sky. A magical ruin scenario is thus created, which so pleased 19th-century aesthetes and which still enchants our contemporaries today. The Carmo ruins thus became a memorial to the 1755 earthquake.
The Carmo Archaeological Museum, located here, was founded in 1864 by the first president of the Association of Portuguese Archaeologists, Joaquim Possidónio Narciso da Silva (1806-1896). It was the first Museum of Art and Archeology in the country, and was born from the objectives of safeguarding the national heritage that was being dilapidated and deteriorating, as a result of the extinction of the Religious Orders and the countless damages inflicted during the French Invasions and the Liberal Wars.
In its first years of existence, it brought together a collection consisting of countless fragments of architecture and sculpture, as well as funerary monuments of great sculptural relief, tile panels, coat of arms, and many other objects of historical, artistic and archaeological interest. At the end of the 19th century and in the third quarter of the 20th century, important collections of art and archeology from different sources entered the Museum, among which stand out the collection of Roman epigraphy, the collection of pre-Columbian ceramics and mummies and the original collection of excavation of the Castro of Vila Nova de São Pedro, in Azambuja (Chalcolithic c.3500 BC), currently with about a thousand artifacts on permanent display.

Source Museu Arqueológico do Carmo

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