Lisbon District
Lisbon
Belém

Belém Tower

Belém Tower is a village in , and has about 16,500 residents. Belém Tower is situated nearby to the neighborhood , as well as near .
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  • Type: Village with 16,500 residents
  • Description: former civil parish in Lisboa, Portugal
  • Also known as: “Freguesia de Santa Maria de Belém”, “Santa Maria de Belem”, and “Torre de Belem”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Monastery of the Hieronymites and Navy Museum.

Protected area
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The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in the parish of Belém, in the Lisbon Municipality, Portugal.

Museum
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The is a maritime museum in , dedicated to all aspects of the history of navigation in . The museum is administered by the Portuguese Navy and is located in the tourist district of .

Museum
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The National Museum of Archaeology is the largest archaeological in and one of the most important museums devoted to ancient art found in the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Belém and Ajuda.

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is a district in , .

Village
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is a freguesia and district of , the capital of . is located in western Lisbon, northeast of Belém and west of Alcântara. The population in 2011 was 15,617.

Suburb
is a former civil parish in the city and municipality of , Portugal. It was created on February 7, 1959. At the administrative reorganization of Lisbon on 8 December 2012 it merged with the former parish of Santa Maria de Belém, thus creating the new Belém parish.

Belém Tower

Latitude
38.69777° or 38° 41′ 52″ north
Longitude
-9.20943° or 9° 12′ 34″ west
Population
16,500
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
Open location code
8CCGMQXR+46
Open­Street­Map ID
node 206169708
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2270978
Wiki­data ID
Q376866
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Belém Tower” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سانتا ماريا دي بيليم”
  • Armenian: “Բելեմ”
  • Asturian: “Santa Maria de Belém”
  • Basque: “Belem”
  • Belarusian: “Санта-Марыя-ды-Белен”
  • Belarusian: “Санта-Марыя-дэ-Белен”
  • Catalan: “Santa Maria de Belém”
  • Catalan: “Torre de Belém”
  • Cebuano: “Belém”
  • Cebuano: “Santa Maria de Belém”
  • Chinese: “贝伦区”
  • Chinese: “贝伦塔”
  • Croatian: “Santa Maria de Belém”
  • Czech: “Santa Maria de Belém”
  • Dutch: “Santa Maria de Belem”
  • Dutch: “Santa Maria de Belém”
  • Dutch: “Torre de Belém”
  • Esperanto: “Belemo”
  • Finnish: “Belém”
  • Finnish: “Belémin torni”
  • French: “Freguesia de Santa Maria de Belém”
  • French: “Tour de Belém”
  • Galician: “Santa Maria de Belém”
  • German: “Belém”
  • German: “Freguesia de Santa Maria de Belém”
  • German: “Torre de Belém”
  • Hebrew: “בלן”
  • Hungarian: “Belém torony”
  • Hungarian: “Belém”
  • Icelandic: “Betlehemsturninn”
  • Irish: “Santa Maria de Belém”
  • Italian: “Freguesia de Santa Maria de Belém”
  • Italian: “Santa Maria de Belém”
  • Japanese: “サンタマリア・デ・ベレン”
  • Korean: “산타마리아드벨렝”
  • Latin: “Santa Maria de Belém”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tuerm vu Belém”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Belém”
  • Persian: “بلم”
  • Polish: “Belém”
  • Polish: “Torre de Belém”
  • Portuguese: “Freguesia de Santa Maria de Belém”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Maria de Belém (freguesia)”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Maria de Belém (Lisboa)”
  • Portuguese: “Santa Maria de Belém”
  • Portuguese: “Torre de Belém”
  • Russian: “Санта-Мария-де-Белен”
  • Russian: “Санта-Мария-ди-Белен”
  • Slovenian: “Santa Maria de Belém”
  • Spanish: “Freguesia de Santa Maria de Belém”
  • Spanish: “Santa Maria de Belem”
  • Spanish: “Santa Maria de Belém”
  • Spanish: “Torre de Belém”
  • Swedish: “Belém”
  • Turkish: “Santa Maria de Belém”
  • Ukrainian: “Санта-Марія-де-Белен”
  • “Freguesia de Santa Maria de Belém”

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