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city guide","hw_hub_city_hero_h1":"Things To Do In Lisbon","hw_hub_city_hero_intro":"Seven hills, yellow trams, tiled facades and the cheapest capital in western Europe. Also the hostel capital of the continent, and it knows it.","hw_hub_city_hero_image":"1304322","hw_hub_city_hero_overlay":"light","hw_hub_city_hero_cta":"Where to stay | #areas\r\nWhat it costs | #money","hw_hub_city_live_stats":"1","hw_hub_city_stats":"7 | Hills, allegedly\r\n1755 | The earthquake that rebuilt it\r\n\u20ac1.80 | A pastel de nata","hw_hub_city_intro_title":"A capital that runs downhill to the water","hw_hub_city_intro_body":"Lisbon sits on a wide estuary where the Tagus meets the Atlantic, built across hills steep enough that the city installed funiculars rather than expect anyone to walk them. The 1755 earthquake flattened the centre, and what replaced it \u2014 the grid of Baixa, rebuilt in five years \u2014 is the reason the middle of the city looks nothing like the medieval streets of Alfama above it.\r\n\r\nIt has been the busiest hostel city in Europe for a decade, and that has changed prices and the centre. Rents have risen sharply, short-term lets have hollowed out parts of the old town, and locals will tell you so if you ask.\r\n\r\nThree or four days covers the city itself. Add a day for Sintra and another for the beaches, both of which are a short train ride away and both of which people wish they had given longer.","hw_hub_city_facts":"Getting in from the airport | Metro red line, 20 minutes, about \u20ac1.80. Taxi \u20ac15\u201320\r\nGetting around | Viva Viagem card, \u20ac0.50 once, then \u20ac1.80 a journey or \u20ac6.80 a day\r\nLanguage | Portuguese. English is widely spoken in the centre\r\nTipping | Round up, or 5\u201310% for good service. Not expected\r\nTap water | Safe to drink\r\nCouvert | Bread and olives brought unasked are charged for. Send them back if you do not want them","hw_hub_city_areas_title":"Where to stay","hw_hub_city_areas_intro":"The centre is walkable but vertical. Where you sleep decides how many hills you climb at 2am.","hw_hub_city_areas_map":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_zoom":"13","hw_hub_city_hostels_pins":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_live":"1","hw_hub_city_areas":"Baixa | First-timers | The rebuilt grid between the two big squares: flat, central, and surrounded by everything. Busy and priced for it. | 38.7101 | -9.1390 | Rua Augusta Shopping | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/portugal\/lisbon\/d\/rua-augusta-shopping\/\nAlfama | Atmosphere | The oldest quarter, which survived the earthquake: stepped lanes, fado houses and washing over the street. | 38.7118 | -9.1290 | Alfama | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/portugal\/lisbon\/d\/alfama\/\nBairro Alto | Nightlife | Quiet until eleven, then the whole street becomes the bar. Loud until dawn and not for light sleepers. | 38.7130 | -9.1450 | Bairro Alto | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/portugal\/lisbon\/d\/bairro-alto\/\nCais do Sodr\u00e9 | Going out without living in it | The river end: Time Out Market, Pink Street, and a ten-minute walk home from most of the nightlife. | 38.7065 | -9.1450 |  | \nPr\u00edncipe Real | A calmer stay | Uphill from Bairro Alto: gardens, independent shops, good restaurants and the centre of gay Lisbon. | 38.7160 | -9.1490 |  | \nGra\u00e7a | Value and views | Above Alfama, with the best miradouros in the city and prices that drop the further you climb. | 38.7175 | -9.1300 |  | ","hw_hub_city_itin_title":"How long have you got?","hw_hub_city_itin_intro":"The routes we would walk, in the order we would walk them.","hw_hub_city_itin":"","hw_hub_city_do_title":"Things to do in Lisbon","hw_hub_city_do_body":"Start high and walk down. The miradouros \u2014 Senhora do Monte, Gra\u00e7a, Santa Luzia \u2014 are free, and the walk between them through Alfama is the single best few hours in the city.\r\n\r\nTram 28 is the famous one and it is a working tram, so it is packed by nine in the morning and a pickpocket's office by ten. Ride it early from Martim Moniz or skip it and take the 12 instead.\r\n\r\nIn Bel\u00e9m, six kilometres west, the Jer\u00f3nimos Monastery and the Torre de Bel\u00e9m are the two UNESCO sites, and the queue for the original past\u00e9is de Bel\u00e9m moves faster than it looks.\r\n\r\nThe 1755 earthquake is the thread running through everything: what stands, what does not, and why the middle of the city is a grid.","hw_hub_city_do_points":"Tram 28 | Ride it before 9am from Martim Moniz, or take the 12 instead\r\nMiradouros | Free viewpoints. Senhora do Monte is the highest and the quietest\r\nBel\u00e9m | Monastery, tower and the original custard tarts. Half a day\r\nBook ahead | Jer\u00f3nimos and the castle sell timed tickets that do run out in summer","hw_hub_city_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_city_do_more":"All things to do in Lisbon","hw_hub_city_free_title":"Free things to do in Lisbon","hw_hub_city_free_body":"Lisbon is generous if you are broke. Every miradouro is free, and there are a dozen of them. The Feira da Ladra flea market runs Tuesdays and Saturdays behind the Pante\u00e3o. Fado spills out of bars in Alfama most evenings without a cover charge, and the ones with no sign are usually the real ones.\r\n\r\nThe Gulbenkian gardens are free to walk, and the museum is free on Sundays after two. The Museu do Aljube, on the resistance to the dictatorship, is free on the first Sunday of the month, as are most municipal museums.\r\n\r\nWalking the whole riverfront from Cais do Sodr\u00e9 to Bel\u00e9m takes about ninety minutes and costs nothing.","hw_hub_city_free_points":"Miradouros | Every one of them, all day\r\nMuseums on the first Sunday | Municipal museums free until 2pm\r\nFeira da Ladra | Tuesdays and Saturdays, Campo de Santa Clara\r\nThe riverfront walk | Cais do Sodr\u00e9 to Bel\u00e9m, ninety minutes","hw_hub_city_free_tag":"free-things-to-do","hw_hub_city_free_more":"All free things to do in Lisbon","hw_hub_city_food_title":"Eating and drinking in Lisbon","hw_hub_city_food_body":"The tourist menus around Rua Augusta are the worst food in the city. Walk ten minutes in any direction and you are in tascas serving a prato do dia for \u20ac8 to \u20ac12, which is what people actually eat at lunch.\r\n\r\nBacalhau appears in hundreds of forms and the Portuguese will tell you there are 365. Grilled sardines are a June thing rather than a year-round one. Bifana \u2014 a pork sandwich in a soft roll \u2014 is the \u20ac3.50 standby, and the best ones come from places with no menu.\r\n\r\nPast\u00e9is de nata are everywhere. The original recipe is at Past\u00e9is de Bel\u00e9m, where they are called past\u00e9is de Bel\u00e9m and nothing else; Manteigaria in the centre is the best of the rest and you watch them come out of the oven.\r\n\r\nThe Time Out Market is good and expensive, and it is not where locals eat.","hw_hub_city_food_points":"Prato do dia | \u20ac8\u201312 at a tasca. The best value meal in the city\r\nBifana | About \u20ac3.50, and better from places with no menu\r\nCouvert | The bread and olives are not free. Refuse them if you do not want them\r\nPast\u00e9is | Bel\u00e9m for the original, Manteigaria for the best in the centre","hw_hub_city_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_city_food_more":"All food guides for Lisbon","hw_hub_city_nightlife_title":"Going out in Lisbon","hw_hub_city_nightlife_body":"Bairro Alto is the starting point and it works differently from most nightlife districts: the bars are tiny, everyone drinks in the street, and the whole neighbourhood is the venue. It runs from about eleven until three, when it moves down the hill.\r\n\r\nPink Street in Cais do Sodr\u00e9 is the second act, with bigger bars and clubs, and Lux Fr\u00e1gil on the riverfront is the club that made Lisbon's reputation \u2014 door policy included.\r\n\r\nFado is the other night out entirely. The tourist houses in Alfama charge \u20ac40 to \u20ac60 with dinner; the small bars where someone stands up and sings between drinks cost the price of a glass of wine and are better.\r\n\r\nGinjinha, sour cherry liqueur, is a \u20ac1.50 shot from hole-in-the-wall bars near Rossio.","hw_hub_city_nightlife_points":"Bairro Alto | From 23:00. Drinking happens in the street, not in the bars\r\nPink Street | Cais do Sodr\u00e9, bigger venues, later\r\nFado | Small Alfama bars beat the \u20ac40 dinner shows\r\nGinjinha | \u20ac1.50 a shot, standing up, near Rossio","hw_hub_city_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_city_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for Lisbon","hw_hub_city_transport_title":"Getting around Lisbon","hw_hub_city_transport_body":"Get a Viva Viagem card at any metro station: it costs \u20ac0.50 once, and a day of unlimited metro, tram, bus and funicular is \u20ac6.80. Loading single journeys at \u20ac1.80 works out worse than the day pass if you make four.\r\n\r\nThe metro is quick and reaches the airport, but Lisbon is a walking city and a hilly one. The funiculars and the Santa Justa lift are public transport, not attractions, and the day pass covers them.\r\n\r\nFerries across the Tagus to Cacilhas cost about \u20ac1.55 and give you the best view back at the city, plus seafood restaurants on the other side.\r\n\r\nUber and Bolt both work and are cheap. Taxis from the airport occasionally take the long way; agree on the meter.","hw_hub_city_transport_points":"Viva Viagem | \u20ac0.50 for the card, then \u20ac6.80 for a day of everything\r\nFuniculars | Covered by the day pass. Use them rather than climbing\r\nFerry to Cacilhas | About \u20ac1.55, and the best view of the city\r\nAirport | Red line metro, 20 minutes, no transfer to the centre","hw_hub_city_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_city_transport_more":"All transport guides for Lisbon","hw_hub_city_money_title":"What Lisbon costs","hw_hub_city_money_body":"Lisbon is the cheapest capital in western Europe and no longer cheap. Dorms run \u20ac18 to \u20ac35 and climb steeply from June to September, a prato do dia is \u20ac8 to \u20ac12, and a beer is \u20ac2 to \u20ac4 in a tasca and double that on a terrace with a view.\r\n\r\nA careful day is \u20ac45 to \u20ac65. The things that add up are rooftop bars, tourist restaurants in Baixa, and the \u20ac40 fado dinners.\r\n\r\nThe savings are structural: eat lunch as the main meal, buy the day transport pass, use the free miradouros instead of paid viewpoints, and take the \u20ac1.55 ferry rather than a river cruise.","hw_hub_city_money_points":"Dorm bed | \u20ac18\u201335, and highest from June to September\r\nA day, all in | \u20ac45\u201365\r\nLunch over dinner | The prato do dia is the same food for half the price\r\nFree viewpoints | Every miradouro. Skip the paid ones","hw_hub_city_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_city_money_more":"All budget guides for Lisbon","hw_hub_city_safety_title":"Staying safe in Lisbon","hw_hub_city_safety_body":"Lisbon is a safe city with very little violent crime, and a serious pickpocketing problem in specific places: tram 28, the 15 to Bel\u00e9m, Rossio, and the crowd outside any viewpoint at sunset. Keep your phone out of your back pocket and your bag in front of you on trams.\r\n\r\nThe other thing everyone meets is drug dealing on Rua Augusta and around Baixa \u2014 persistent offers of hashish that is usually not hashish at all. A firm no and walking on is all it takes.\r\n\r\nThe pavement is the underrated hazard. Cal\u00e7ada portuguesa is beautiful, polished, and lethal in the rain, and the hills are steeper than they look.\r\n\r\nEmergency number is 112, free from any phone.","hw_hub_city_safety_points":"Pickpockets | Tram 28, the 15, Rossio. Bag in front, phone out of sight\r\nStreet dealers | Rua Augusta and Baixa. It is not what they say it is\r\nWet pavements | Cal\u00e7ada is genuinely slippery in the rain\r\nEmergency | 112, free from any phone","hw_hub_city_safety_tag":"safety","hw_hub_city_safety_more":"All safety guides for Lisbon","hw_hub_city_trips_title":"Day trips from Lisbon","hw_hub_city_trips_intro":"Two of these are better than most of the city, and both are a train ride away.","hw_hub_city_trips":"Sintra | 40 minutes | Train from Rossio, about \u20ac2.50 each way | Palaces in the hills above the coast, including the Pena Palace on a crag. Go early: it is the busiest day trip in Portugal and timed tickets sell out. |  | 1304319\nCascais | 40 minutes | Train from Cais do Sodr\u00e9, about \u20ac2.50 | A seaside town at the end of the line, with beaches along the way and a coast road to Guincho behind it. |  | 1304320\n\u00c9vora | 1.5 hours | Bus from Sete Rios, about \u20ac13 | A walled Alentejo town with a Roman temple and a chapel lined with bones. A long but easy day. |  | 1304321","hw_hub_city_trips_tag":"day-trips","hw_hub_city_trips_more":"All day trips from Lisbon","hw_hub_city_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_city_season_intro":"Lisbon has a long shoulder season and a genuinely mild winter. July and August are hot, full and expensive.","hw_hub_city_season_note":"Average highs. Lisbon rarely freezes and rarely passes 35\u00b0C, but the hills make August feel hotter than the number suggests.","hw_hub_city_season_rows":"January | 15 | 1 | Cool, grey and cheap. The city belongs to itself again\r\nFebruary | 16 | 1 | Still quiet. Carnival falls here or in March\r\nMarch | 18 | 2 | Spring arrives early. Good value and lengthening days\r\nApril | 20 | 3 | Excellent. Warm enough for terraces, not yet crowded\r\nMay | 22 | 4 | The best month. Warm, long evenings, everything open\r\nJune | 26 | 5 | Santo Ant\u00f3nio fills the whole city on the 12th and 13th\r\nJuly | 28 | 5 | Hot and full. Book beds weeks ahead\r\nAugust | 29 | 5 | Peak heat and peak prices. Locals leave for the coast\r\nSeptember | 27 | 4 | Superb. Warm sea, thinning crowds, still long evenings\r\nOctober | 23 | 3 | Excellent and much cheaper. Rain starts late in the month\r\nNovember | 18 | 2 | Mild, wet and quiet. Good for museums\r\nDecember | 16 | 2 | Christmas lights, cool days, and the lowest prices of the year","hw_hub_city_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_city_events_intro":"One of these takes over the entire city for two nights.","hw_hub_city_events_source":"api","hw_hub_city_events_count":"8","hw_hub_city_events_cache":"24","hw_hub_city_events_cta_label":"All events in Lisbon","hw_hub_city_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/europe\/portugal\/lisbon\/","hw_hub_city_events":"Santo Ant\u00f3nio | 12\u201313 June | Alfama, Gra\u00e7a, Mouraria | Sardines grilled in the street, paper decorations across every lane, and the whole city out until dawn. The biggest night of the Lisbon year. |  | \nCarnaval | February or March | Citywide | Smaller than Brazil or Madeira, but parades and parties across the city. |  | \nNOS Alive | July | Alg\u00e9s | A three-day festival on the river west of the city with international headliners. |  | \nWeb Summit | November | Parque das Na\u00e7\u00f5es | Seventy thousand people arrive and every bed in the city is booked. Avoid or plan around it. |  | \nFeira da Ladra | Tuesdays and Saturdays | Campo de Santa Clara | The flea market that has run since the twelfth century, behind the Pante\u00e3o. |  | ","hw_hub_city_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_city_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel. Per person per night, in euros.","hw_hub_city_budget_note":"Transport assumes the \u20ac6.80 day pass. Day trips to Sintra or Cascais add about \u20ac5 in train fares plus entry.","hw_hub_city_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 18 | 15 | 7 | 5\r\nMiddle of the road | 30 | 30 | 7 | 15\r\nComfortable | 55 | 55 | 15 | 30","hw_hub_city_budget_currency":"\u20ac","hw_hub_city_hostels_title":"Where to stay in Lisbon","hw_hub_city_hostels_intro":"Lisbon has won more hostel awards than any city in Europe, and the standard is genuinely high. These are the top-rated right now, live from Hostelworld.","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in Lisbon","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/portugal\/lisbon\/","hw_hub_city_hostels_source":"api","hw_hub_city_hostels_count":"12","hw_hub_city_hostels_cache":"12","hw_hub_city_picks":"Best for solo travellers |  |  | \nBest for a party |  |  | \nQuietest |  |  | ","hw_hub_city_hostels":"","hw_hub_city_faq_title":"Lisbon travel questions","hw_hub_city_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_city_faqs":"How many days do you need in Lisbon? | Three or four for the city, plus a day for Sintra and ideally another for the coast. Most people who give it three wish they had given it five.\r\nIs tram 28 worth it? | Before nine in the morning, yes. After that it is a queue, a crush and the most reliable pickpocketing spot in the city. Tram 12 covers a similar route with a fraction of the crowd.\r\nWhere should I stay? | Baixa if it is your first time and you want flat and central. Alfama for atmosphere and stairs. Cais do Sodr\u00e9 if you want to go out and walk home. Bairro Alto only if you intend to be part of the noise rather than kept awake by it.\r\nIs Lisbon expensive now? | Cheaper than Madrid or Barcelona, and no longer the bargain it was. Dorms \u20ac18 to \u20ac35, a set lunch \u20ac8 to \u20ac12, and a careful day around \u20ac45 to \u20ac65. Prices in the centre have risen fast.\r\nDo I need to book Sintra in advance? | Yes. Pena Palace uses timed entry and sells out in summer, and the queues for the bus up the hill are long. Go on the first train and buy tickets online the night before.\r\nWhat is the couvert? | The bread, olives and cheese that arrive without you ordering them. They are not free, they appear on the bill, and sending them back is normal and not rude.\r\nWhen is the best time to visit? | May, September and early October. July and August are hot, full and expensive, and the city empties of locals. Winter is mild, cheap and surprisingly pleasant.","hw_hub_city_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_city_cta_body":"Compare Lisbon hostels \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. Then meet the people already there in the app.","hw_hub_city_cta_buttons":"Find hostels in Lisbon | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/portugal\/lisbon\/\r\nGet the app | https:\/\/hostelworld.onelink.me\/IdiK\/f5a50nhd","hw_hub_city_newsletter_title":"Get the good stuff monthly","hw_hub_city_newsletter_body":"New city guides, deals and route ideas. 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