{"id":70,"date":"2026-09-06T22:56:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T22:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.rodh-it.com\/?touriza_city=lisbon"},"modified":"2026-09-06T22:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T22:56:55","slug":"lisbon","status":"publish","type":"touriza_city","link":"https:\/\/news.rodh-it.com\/?touriza_city=lisbon","title":{"rendered":"Lisbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why go<\/h2>\n<p>Lisbon is a low city of tiled facades and steep gradients, where the light comes off the Tagus estuary and makes everything look better than it should at 6pm. It has become busy; the answer is to sleep outside Baixa and eat where the lunch menu is written by hand.<\/p>\n<h2>Five things to do<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"rule-list\">\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">01<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Tram 28, boarded early<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Do it at 8am or not at all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">02<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>One meal at the Time Out Market<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Then eat in tascas the rest of the trip.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">03<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Fado in Alfama<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Small rooms, no amplification.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">04<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Miradouro da Senhora do Monte<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">The best of the viewpoints.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">05<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Sintra by train<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Go midweek and book the palaces ahead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Neighbourhoods<\/h2>\n<div class=\"grid g2\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">Alfama<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">The Moorish quarter the 1755 earthquake spared.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">Pr\u00edncipe Real<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">Botanical garden, design shops, long lunches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">Marvila<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">Warehouses, breweries and new galleries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">Bel\u00e9m<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">Monastery, tower and the original custard tart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Getting around<\/h2>\n<p>Buy the transport card on arrival \u2014 every city on this list has one, and it is cheaper than single fares within about four journeys. Walking covers more than the map suggests: most of the districts above are within thirty minutes of each other on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Taxis and ride apps are worth it late at night and when you are carrying luggage. Everything else is faster on the metro, the tram or the ferry, in that order.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to eat<\/h2>\n<p>The rule that holds in Lisbon is the rule that holds everywhere: eat at the busy place, at the hour the locals eat, and order the thing the kitchen makes most of. Reserve for dinner in the districts above; lunch rarely needs it.<\/p>\n<h2>Two days here<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Morning: Tram 28, boarded early<\/li>\n<li>Afternoon: walk Alfama<\/li>\n<li>Evening: Fado in Alfama<\/li>\n<li>Day two: Sintra by train<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven hills, Atlantic light and trams that still climb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"touriza_continent":[3],"touriza_theme":[],"class_list":["post-70","touriza_city","type-touriza_city","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","touriza_continent-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.rodh-it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.rodh-it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.rodh-it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/touriza_city"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.rodh-it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.rodh-it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.rodh-it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.rodh-it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.rodh-it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"touriza_continent","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.rodh-it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftouriza_continent&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"touriza_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.rodh-it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftouriza_theme&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}