Lisbon Travel Guide

1. Culture – It’s one of the world’s great historical cities, with characteristic and surprising sights, cultural treasures, and a beautiful setting that make it a paradise for walkers and photographers.
2. Value – It’s one of Europe’s best values — officially Western Europe’s least expensive capital.
3. Location – It’s the closest European capital to the United States and just around a 2 hour flight from all the other major European cities.
4. Climate – Its mild climate makes it an ideal year-round destination. Even in Winter, when most other European cities are freezing, Lisbon high temperatures rarely go below 10C (50F).
5. Resort – It is the only European capital located so close to sandy beaches, enabling visitors to combine culture with fun by the sea.
6. Size: It’s a compact and intimate city, ideal for a short city break or a longer romantic stay, with a lively café culture and a nightlife that is one of the most vibrant in Europe.
7. Variety – Its surroundings offer an incredible variety of tourist attractions, from fairytale palaces in one of Europe’s most romantic towns (Sintra), to world-class golf and fun in Europe’s largest casino in Estoril, to surfing in Cascais or escaping to a natural park in Arrábida, to dolphin-watching in Setúbal.
8. Gateway – It makes a perfect base to explore many of Portugal’s most outstanding towns and villages, from Evora to Obidos.
9. Safety – It’s one of the safest European capitals. Tourists are always automatic targets in all big cities and visitors should beware of pickpocketing in Lisbon, but serious random violent crime is practically unheard of in this city.
10. Welcoming – It’s a friendly city with a cosmopolitan population, welcoming to all visitors and families with children, and open to minorities and alternative lifestyles.

There is a Webcam in the Amoreiras district in Lisbon with multiple views of the city. The web cam shows views of Amoreiras, the City over Bairro Alto, Rossio and Chiado to the Tagus River that flows under Lisbon’s 2 famous bridges, the “Vasco da Gama” and the “25 de Abril”.

One of the biggest cultural cities in the world, Lisbon was once under Roman rule — around 205 BC — when it was already a 1000 years town and received the name of Olissipo. The city was then captured by Moors in the 8th century and conquered in 1147 by the Crusaders of D. Afonso Henriques.

Lisbon has a Mediterranean climate strongly influenced by the Gulf stream. The city is mostly sunny throughout the year, and in fact one of the sunniest cities capitals in all Europe with an average of 3000h of sunshine. Summers are very warm and dry with average temperatures of 26–29°C, falling to 16–18°C at night. Winters are cool and and moist with temperatures rounding from 8 to 16°C, being the months of strongest rain April and October.