Lisbon District
Lisbon
Belém

Ajuda

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

Highlights include Monastery of the Hieronymites and Igreja da Memória.

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.

Church
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Memory Church is a church in Ajuda, . It holds the Mausoleum of the Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal. It is classified as a National Monument.

Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 4.0.
The Monument of the Discoveries is a monument on the northern bank of the Tagus River estuary, in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém, . Located along the river where ships departed to explore and trade with and the Orient, the monument celebrates the Portuguese Age of Discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Belém and Belém Tower.

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is a district in , .

Village
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is a village.

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.

Ajuda

Latitude
38.70468° or 38° 42′ 17″ north
Longitude
-9.1996° or 9° 11′ 59″ west
Population
14,300
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
Open location code
8CCGPR32+V5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4287890042
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2272264
Wiki­data ID
Q413311
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Ajuda” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أجودا”
  • Asturian: “Ajuda”
  • Belarusian: “Ажуда”
  • Catalan: “Ajuda”
  • Cebuano: “Ajuda”
  • Chechen: “Ажуда”
  • Chinese: “Ajuda”
  • Dutch: “Ajuda (Lisboa)”
  • Dutch: “Ajuda (Lissabon)”
  • Dutch: “Ajuda”
  • French: “Ajuda”
  • French: “Jardin botanique d’Ajuda”
  • Georgian: “აჟუდა”
  • German: “Ajuda”
  • Greek: “Αζούδα”
  • Hebrew: “אג’ודה”
  • Italian: “Ajuda”
  • Japanese: “アジュダ”
  • Kazakh: “Ажуда”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ajuda”
  • Polish: “Ajuda”
  • Portuguese: “Ajuda (Lisboa)”
  • Portuguese: “Ajuda”
  • Portuguese: “Bairro da Ajuda”
  • Portuguese: “Freguesia da Ajuda”
  • Russian: “Ажуда”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ajuda”
  • Spanish: “Ajuda Lisboa”
  • Spanish: “Ajuda”
  • Swedish: “Ajuda, Lissabon”
  • Swedish: “Ajuda”
  • Tatar: “Ажуда”
  • Turkish: “Ajuda (lizbon)”
  • Turkish: “Ajuda”
  • Ukrainian: “Ажуда”
  • Welsh: “Ajuda”
  • “Ajuda”

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