Mid-range · 6-hour walk · Lisbon
Tram 28, Graça and the tile museum in six hours
The famous tram, the city's two highest miradouros, lunch in Graça, the monastery of São Vicente, the flea market, the National Pantheon and the national museum of tiles.
The Belém route follows the river west; this one takes the famous tram up into the eastern hills that most visitors see only from its window. Graça is a working neighbourhood with the best views in the city, and the route then drops down past the monastery and the flea market to the dome of the Pantheon, and on to the one museum in Lisbon that is about Lisbon's own art — the painted tile.
The route, stop by stop
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Tram 28
Board at Martim Moniz, where the line starts and you can get a seat, and ride it up the hill to Graça. The 1930s cars grind round corners with centimetres to spare.
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Miradouro da Senhora do Monte
The highest viewpoint in the city, beside a tiny chapel, with the castle below you and the whole Baixa beyond.
20 min here Walk here → -
Miradouro da Graça
Lunch at the kiosk terrace under the pines, with the castle and the river in front of you.
60 min here Walk here → -
São Vicente de Fora
A 17th-century monastery with cloisters lined in blue-and-white tiles telling La Fontaine's fables, the Braganza kings' pantheon, and a roof you can walk on.
45 min here Walk here → -
Feira da Ladra
The "thieves' market", Lisbon's flea market, on Tuesday and Saturday mornings; on other days the square is simply quiet.
20 min here Walk here → -
National Pantheon
The church of Santa Engrácia, whose dome took three centuries to finish — Lisbon still says "obras de Santa Engrácia" of any job that never ends — with the fado singer Amália Rodrigues among those buried inside.
30 min here Walk here → -
Museu Nacional do Azulejo
Twenty minutes along the river, five centuries of Portuguese tiles in a convent with a gilded chapel, and a 23-metre tiled panorama of Lisbon before the earthquake.
75 min here Walk here →
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