The electric tram network (Rede de eléctricos de Lisboa) is an easy way to see historic Lisbon. Tram No. 28 is the most famous as the journey takes you through the steep winding streets of the old town.
We were advised by a seasoned tourist to catch a tram at the bottom of the hill up to the castle and then walk down through the old quarter. Easier on the legs – they were right!
I was so absorbed looking out of the window at the old buildings, imagining life years ago before this area became “trendy” with tourists I failed to notice my hubby, daughter and son-in-law had got off the tram until it had pulled away. Luckily, I persuaded the driver to stop before the next stop to let me off. The idea of getting separated and ultimately lost in Lisbon was not a happy one.
If you are visiting Lisbon here is a useful website which you may find of interest. www.lisbonweekendguild.com/Lisbon-information/Lisbon_tram_route.html
The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge this week is Journey
If you can recommend other tourist websites in Lisbon or for other areas of Portugal, please leave details, urls etc in comments below. Please don’t be shy!
Piglet in Portugal 
I love thi sshot.
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Yes, it’s in an old convent, here’s the link http://mnazulejo.imc-ip.pt/en-GB/default.aspx. There are many other places where you can see fantastic “azulejos”. This one it’s from a private foundation (Marquês de Alorna e Fronteira), the majority of people don’t know that it exists and it’s not exactly easy to visit, but it has a fantastic room about important battles of the portuguese history. http://www.fronteira-alorna.pt/quicks/quick.htm
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Hi Fernanda thank you for the links! The room depicting the important battles in azulejos is wonderful! The 360degree view on the video cam is a great idea. Thanks also for the link to the tle museaum. I’ve added to the page above. Next time we go to Lisbon, it is certainly on my to view list!
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Just a link to discover Lisboa, this one is about “AS 10 MAIS BELAS FACHADAS DE AZULEJOS EM LISBOA” – The interior of every palace or church in Lisbon seems to have at least a small tile panel, but even the most humble homes often feature tiles on their façades. While most are mass-produced geometric images, many are authentic works of art. Below are ten of the most outstanding, but you’ll find countless others and will have your own favorites as you walk around the city.” http://www.lisbonlux.com/magazine/the-10-most-beautifully-tiled-facades-in-lisbon/
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Thank you Fernanda, what a brilliant website! some of the the suggestions on the website will certainly add a new dimension to our next visit to Lisbon! I have added it to my Tourist info page above! 🙂 I love Azulejos and I am currently researching their history and taking photographs of the ones I find locally. I believe there is a museum in Lisbon?
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Love it, great idea! My hometown has loads of trams too, hisotrical and romantic.
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Trams are certainly a leisurely way to view Lisbon and get your bearings
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That looks like it would be so much fun!
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IT was until I nearly became a LiL instead of a PiP
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Would that be Lost in Lisbon? 🙂
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Yep, Nancy thought that would make me a LiL
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I love that photo! Did you take it? Lisbon is one of the places that I’ve never been but have always wanted to visit.
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Hi Theresa,
Yep, I take all my own photos 🙂 Here are some more of Lisbon
If you get the opportunity to visit Lisbon do take it.
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One highlight (among many) while in Lisbon was the Gulbenkian Museum. Such an amazing private collection of art, rooms upon rooms of paintings and sculpture by a veritable who’s who in the art world.
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Hi Linda and welcome 🙂
I’ve never been to the Gulbenkian Museum I will add it to my places to visit when we are next in Lisbon
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Gostei do post! A foto é bonita! Já andei por algumas ruas de Lisboa no eléctrico!
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Olá Maria, obrigandinha!
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This is a great photo, so much movement and so much to see. Great for the journey challenge 🙂
Dee
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Hi Dee, the moment I saw the challenge I knew which picture to use. Lisbon is such a diverse city and well worth a visit.
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It is now firmly on my list of cities I want to visit
Dee
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If you got Lost in Lisbon, you’d become a LiL . . . PiP! And that would never do!
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LOL yes I would be known as LiL, don’t want to test the theory though as I sometimes experience panic attacks in crowds. If I was lost as well I would be in meltdown mode 😦
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It sounds really fun to visit Lisbon. There are also a few trams in our country but the design is different from that one.
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Hi Cocomino, these are very old trams I think preserved for the tourists. Could be wrong?
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I think that old trams should be preserved. 🙂
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We used to have those style trams when I first came to Australia – they were lovely. Now we have these horrible modern things I don’t like at all.
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Hi Robyn, I believe they have the modern trams in Lisbon as well? I think the old vintage trams are for the benefits of the tourists 🙂
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We have one that trundles around in a circle, for tourists. I loved the old trams. I hate the new ones.
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Hi, the old trams are not only for the tourists benefit. In some streets of the old neighborhoods they are the only public transport that “fits in”, the new ones are too wide. But if you ride tram 28 then it’s mainly tourists.
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Hi Fernanda,
Yes it was really tram 28 I was referring to and the one that features most in the tourist guides. I certainly saw a lot of locals on the other tram we went on. 🙂
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I’d love to go and ride the trams and explore the old historical areas. Great photo for the challenge. 🙂
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Hi EC, my friends sister has just come over from Canada on holiday and she loved Lisbon, especially the trams and the shops!
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Lovely cosy shot – and also a contestant for this week’s challenge: Two Subjects?
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Olá Wanderlust adn welcome.
I have a different picture in mind for this week’s challenge 🙂
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I;ll look out for it.
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Hi Sami, great website AND there is an English option. Thank you will add to my tourist info page 🙂 which is as useful to me as anyone else because I’m always losing links!
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Hi Carole, I have kept your link as when I go to Lisbon in June, to meet up with my younger sister who lives in South Africa, I would love to take her and the kids around those place. I think the kids would enjoy the tram rides too.
I found this site recently, although it is in Portuguese, you can see lovely photos, and if you click on the different areas of Lisbon on the left side of the site, you get photos taken in those suburbs, or otherwise go to “fotos” at the top.
http://www.strawberryworld-lisbon.com/lisboa/places/index.html
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Love the tram photo and street scene, PiP! And I agree with you. I would have been daydreaming about days of yore.
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Do they have trams in Chile?
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three days in lisbon is ptlney but if you don’t mind spending a couple more days in portugal, i recommend going to evora and to sintra as well, since you are in the area and all. both can be day trips but both are worth it. i can’t help with valencia or barcelona though.
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Barb, I am looking forward to returning to Lisbon and also visiting Porto.
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Can’t help you with any websites, but appreciated the one from you. I’d love to visit sometime, Lisbon looks so interesting!
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, by fado! Through your eyes I see a Lisbon that is a fascinating new unsireve, not the distressed cale7ada of those that run it everyday on their daily routines and chores, too busy to notice and re-appreciate what they already know and seen thousands of times.I’ve revisited Lisboa virtually through your site and I too could smell the air pregnant with coffee and toasted bread and fresh baked pasteis de nata in the rua Augusta on an early morning. Or hear the loud traffic while crossing Rossio, always busy with thousands of people in a hurry to get in or out of town, and then around the corner the smell of just roasted marroni wrapped in yellow pages cones. And when the night falls to walk the unwalkable Bairro Alto and finish the night hearing singing Fado and thinking again how did it all started, what was real, what was imagined.Ahhhhh, how I miss Lisboa! Thank you so much for this trip to Lisbon, for your accuracy, for details that are forgotten or not seen at all, for reviving it and bringing to people in other places, with other cultures. Your Lisbon is my Lisbon.Huge hugxxxMarpessa
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I’ve been told that Lisbon’s beauty compares to San Francisco’s, and since San Francisco is the most beautiful city I’ve visited, I really think I should check out Lisbon. If only to hear some soul-filled fado music.
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Hi Chubby, I love Lisbon. The fado is wonderful we went to see Mariza and she was amazing. the words of the Fado songs are so moving.
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i just got back from spain 3 nights ago and terlevlad on my own. If you need info on trains and bus schedules, you can check renfe.es, alsa.es or pesa.net It really depends on the cities you want to visit as different buses and trains operate different routes. From Lisbon, you might want to pass by Salamanca as it is on the way from the Extremadura region. Lisbon and Valencia are too far apart. you might want to fly to Valencia instead of travelling by surface. Chech spanair.com :-)I think spending 3 nights in a place won’t make your trip too hectic.
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PIP, I love the color in your photo…
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Thanks Jeanne it was one of the reasons I chose this photograph. It’s so bright and cheery 🙂
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Obrigado for the pic. Really nice.
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Obrigadinho!
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I want to ride those trams and explore.
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I think next time we go to Lisbon, I’m going to do just that!
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