Useful Links & Information

Arrival

• Aerobus is a connecting service between Lisbon airport, the City Center and Cais do Sodré train station, with several stops on the way, including Entrecampos (next to Entrecampos underground station - 1 stop for the metro station Cidade Universitária, near Complexo Interdisciplinar da Universidade de Lisboa); Avenida da República; Saldanha. Works every day between 7.00 and 23.00 h; departures every 20 minutes; price 3 Eur for 1 day ticket, giving free access to any other bus.
• Taxi prices are quite reasonable (expect to pay around 10 Eur from the airport to Entrecampos, near Complexo Interdisciplinar da Universidade de Lisboa. It's safer to have the address written down unless your Portuguese is quite good. As with taxis everywhere, make sure they start the taxi meter. Or buy the Taxi Voucher in the Airport - it is generous to the drivers, but at least you know there will be no "extras".

Tourism Guides & Maps

Tourist Information can be obtained at:

• Lisbon Airport - open 06.00 to 01.00 (following day) every day, including weekends.
  Tel: +351-218 494 323 or +351-218 493 689
• Palácio Foz on Praça dos Restauradores - open 09.00 to 20.00 every day, including weekends.
  Tel: +351-213 466 307 or +351-213 463 314.
• Lisboa Welcome Center on Praça do Comércio - 09.00 to 20.00, Monday to Saturday.
  Tel: +351-210 312 700
• Tourist Helpline - 800 296 296 (in Portugal).

Official Guides:

• VisitPortugal.com - Portugal's official tourism website (in Portuguese, English, Spanish or German) has many tourism resources and very useful information on passport and visa requirements, health & emergencies, etc.
• Turismo de Lisboa - a very comprehensive guide (in Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Italian or German) . Gives information about Lisboa Card - free entry to 26 museums, monuments and other places of interest which usually charge an admission fee, plus free access to public transport on buses, trams, lifts and underground (for 1, 2 or 3 days). Please note that public transportation is cheap, anyway.
• DGT - tourism resources by Direcção Geral de Turismo.
• Lisboa - the Lisbon City Council's Guide (in Portuguese, English, Spanish or French).

Guidebooks available online:

• Rough Guide
• Lonely Planet Lisbon and Portugal
• Timeout Lisbon

Other online Guides:

• Clix Travel Guide - an up-to-date Portuguese online guide, with extensive accommodation listings, restaurants, transport and activities (in Portuguese, English, Spanish or French).
• Portugal Virtual - click your way through hundreds of accommodation resources, tourism guides, sights, activities, museums, shops, etc (in Portuguese or English).
• travel.org-Portugal - has a list of tourism related links (in English).

Maps:

• Interactive maps of Lisbon.
• Bus Map

Transport

All sites have english versions.

• Carris - Trams and Buses.
• Metro
• CP (all trains) and Fertagus (the bridge train)
• Transtejo - Boats.
• National Network of Buses
• TAP - Transportadora Aérea Portuguesa, Portuguese airline.
• ANA - Portuguese airports.
• Car Hire - Avis, Hertz. You might want to check the Traffic in Lisbon (in Portuguese).
• Radio Taxis - 218 119 000.

Official resources

• Portuguese Embassies around the world
• Foreign Embassies in Portugal
• Portuguese Public Administration and its Loja do Cidadão
• Government's site
• Environment's Institute - you can check here the quality of the Portuguese beaches, for example.

Culture

• Lisboa Cultural
• Ministry of Culture's Diary of Events
• Museums (IPM) - a list of state museums, with addresses, opening hours, exhibitions, description of the collections including pictures.
• Centro Cultural de Belém - next to Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, this Cultural Centre hosts the Museum of Design, exhibitions, concerts and other performances, shops and restaurants.
• Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - check this site for access to some of Lisbon's best museums (Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna) and for a list of performances (music/dance).
• Parque das Nações - the site of Expo 98: still very much in use with shows, exhibitions, concerts, shops/restaurants and the amazing Oceanarium.
• Cinema (showing in Lisbon) - films in Portugal are subtitled original versions, with the possible exception of children's films, that are normally available in the original and Portuguese versions.

Other resources

• Phone Directories - link to Portugal's (and other countries) White and Yellow pages.
• CTT - Portuguese post office.
• Clix, Sapo, AEIOU, Google.pt, Altavista.pt - Portuguese search engines.
• Weather in Lisbon - 4 day forecast from CNN.
• Currency converter - any currency to Euros from Oanda.com
• Translation - useful to get the gist of web sites in other languages, or at least have a good laugh at its attempt!
• Online Portuguese dictionaries: Universal | Porto Editora.
• News (in Portuguese) - Público | Diário de Notícias | Expresso | Visão | TSF
• A list of chemists in Portugal.

Shopping Centers

• Colombo - the biggest shopping center in the Iberian Peninsula.
• Vasco da Gama - the shopping center at Parque das Nações, the site of Expo 98.
• Amoreiras - the first of the big shopping centers in Lisbon.
• El Corte Inglés - the spanish chain in Lisbon.