Graça
Graça is a former parish in the municipality of Lisbon, Portugal. At the administrative reorganization of Lisbon on 8 December 2012 it became part of the parish São Vicente.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 14,000 residents
- Description: former civil parish in the Lisbon district, Portugal
- Also known as: “Freguesia da Graça”, “Graca”, and “Graça, Lisbon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castle of São Jorge and Better to be lost here somewhere than on my way to nowhere.
Castle of São Jorge
Photo: Robert Nyman, CC BY 2.0.
São Jorge Castle, sometimes known in English as Saint George's Castle, is a historic castle in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, located in the freguesia of Santa Maria Maior.
Better to be lost here somewhere than on my way to nowhere
Work of art
Photo: Šarūnas Burdulis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Better to be lost here somewhere than on my way to nowhere is a work of art.
Church of Santa Engrácia
Church
Photo: Carlos Luis M C da Cruz, Public domain.
The Church of Santa Engrácia is a 17th-century monument in Lisbon, Portugal. Originally a church, it was converted into the National Pantheon, in which important Portuguese personalities are buried.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Estrela d’Ouro and São Vicente de Fora.
Estrela d’Ouro
Neighborhood
Photo: Jaimrsilva, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Estrela d'Ouro is a Lisbon workers' village located in the parish of São Vicente, between number 22 on Rua da Graça and number 14 on Rua da Senhora do Monte.
São Vicente de Fora
Neighborhood
Photo: CorreiaPM, Public domain.
São Vicente de Fora is a former parish in the municipality of Lisbon, Portugal. At the administrative reorganization of Lisbon on 8 December 2012 it became part of the parish São Vicente.
Alfama
Photo: diego cue, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Alfama is the oldest neighborhood of Lisbon, spreading on the slope between the São Jorge Castle and the Tagus river. The district includes the freguesias of São Miguel, Santo Estêvão, São Vicente de Fora and part of the two streets, "Freguesia da Sé: Rua do Barão" and "Rua São João da Praça".
Graça
- Categories: former freguesia of Portugal and locality
- Location: São Vicente, Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.71827° or 38° 43′ 6″ northLongitude
-9.12949° or 9° 7′ 46″ westPopulation
14,000Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)Open location code
8CCGPV9C+86OpenStreetMap ID
node 1148841919OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
6930167Wikidata ID
Q1520260
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Graça” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Graça”
- Catalan: “Graça”
- Cebuano: “Graça (parokya sa Portugal, Distrito de Lisboa)”
- Cebuano: “Graça”
- Chechen: “Граса”
- Dutch: “Graca (Lissabon)”
- Dutch: “Graça”
- French: “Freguesia da Graça”
- French: “Graça”
- German: “Freguesia da Graça”
- German: “Graça”
- Irish: “Graça”
- Italian: “Freguesia da Graça”
- Italian: “Graça”
- Kazakh: “Граса”
- Polish: “Graça”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia da Graça”
- Portuguese: “Graca”
- Portuguese: “Graça”
- Portuguese: “Santo Andre”
- Portuguese: “Santo André”
- Russian: “Граса”
- Spanish: “Freguesia da Graça”
- Spanish: “Graça (Lisboa)”
- Spanish: “Graça”
- Tatar: “Граса”
- Turkish: “Graça”
- Ukrainian: “Граса”
- “Freguesia da Graça”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Graça”. Photo: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0.