Lisbon District
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Belém Tower

Belém Tower, officially the Tower of Saint Vincent is a 16th-century fortification located in that served as a point of embarkation and disembarkation for Portuguese explorers and as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon.
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  • Opening hours:
    October—April: Tuesday—Sunday 10:00 AM—5:30 PM
    May—September: Tuesday—Sunday 10:00 AM—6:30 PM
  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: fortified tower located in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém in the municipality of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Also known as: “Belem Tower”, “Torre de São Vicente”, “Torre de São Vicente a Par de Belém”, “Torre de São Vicente de Belém”, and “Tower of Belém”
  • Address: Avenida de Brasília, Lisboa, 1400-038
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Jardim da Torre de Belém and Monastery of the Hieronymites.

Park
Photo: Hipersyl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a park, which is situated 130 metres north of Belém Tower.

Protected area
Photo: Holger Uwe Schmitt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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. is situated 1 km northeast of Belém Tower.

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. is situated 1 km east of Belém Tower.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Belém Tower and Belém.

Village
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is a village.

Photo: Marcin Latka, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a district in , .

Town
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is a town.

Belém Tower

Latitude
38.6916° or 38° 41′ 30″ north
Longitude
-9.21592° or 9° 12′ 57″ west
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
Inception
1514—1520
Open location code
8CCGMQRM+JJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 24341353
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­fort
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­fort
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Geo­Names ID
6946729
Wiki­data ID
Q215003
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Belém Tower” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kulla Belém”
  • Albanian: “Kulla e Belemit”
  • Albanian: “Kulla e Shën Vincentit”
  • Albanian: “Kulla Shën Vincent”
  • Arabic: “برج بيليم”
  • Armenian: “Տորրի դի Բելեն”
  • Asturian: “Torre de Belém”
  • Azerbaijani: “Belem qalası”
  • Basque: “Belém dorrea”
  • Basque: “Belémgo dorrea”
  • Basque: “San Bizenteren dorrea”
  • Basque: “Torre de Belém”
  • Belarusian: “Вежа Белен”
  • Bulgarian: “Белемска кула”
  • Bulgarian: “Белен”
  • Burmese: “ဘယ်လိမ် မျှော်စင်”
  • Catalan: “Belém”
  • Catalan: “torre de Belém”
  • Catalan: “Torre de Belém”
  • Chinese: “貝倫塔”
  • Chinese: “贝伦塔”
  • Croatian: “Toranj Belém”
  • Croatian: “Torre de Belém”
  • Czech: “Belémská věž”
  • Danish: “Belem-tårnet”
  • Danish: “Belém-tårnet”
  • Danish: “Belemtårnet”
  • Danish: “Belémtårnet”
  • Danish: “Torre de Belém”
  • Dutch: “Toren van Belem”
  • Dutch: “Toren van Belém”
  • Dutch: “Torre de Belem”
  • Dutch: “Torre de Belém”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برج بيليم”
  • Esperanto: “Turo de Belem”
  • Esperanto: “Turo de Belém”
  • Estonian: “Belemi torn”
  • Estonian: “Belémi torn”
  • Finnish: “Belemin torni”
  • Finnish: “Belémin torni”
  • Finnish: “Torre de Belém”
  • French: “Torre de Belém”
  • French: “Tour de Belem”
  • French: “tour de Belém”
  • French: “Tour de Belém”
  • Galician: “Torre de Belém”
  • Galician: “Torre de Belén”
  • Georgian: “ბელენის ციხესიმაგრე”
  • German: “Torre de Belem”
  • German: “Torre de Belém”
  • German: “Turm von Belem”
  • German: “Turm von Belém”
  • Greek: “πύργος της Μπελέμ”
  • Greek: “Πύργος της Μπελέμ”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל בלם”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל בלן”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל ויסנטה הקדוש מבלן”
  • Hindi: “बेलेम मीनार”
  • Hungarian: “Belém-torony”
  • Icelandic: “Betlehemsturninn”
  • Icelandic: “Betlehemturninn”
  • Indonesian: “Menara Belém”
  • Italian: “Torre de Belém”
  • Italian: “Torre di Belem”
  • Italian: “Torre di Belém”
  • Italian: “Torre di Belèm”
  • Japanese: “ベレンの塔”
  • Kazakh: “Белен мұнарасы”
  • Korean: “벨렝탑”
  • Latvian: “Belenas tornis”
  • Lithuanian: “Belemo bokštas”
  • Lithuanian: “Beleno bokštas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Torre de Belém”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tuerm vu Belém”
  • Macedonian: “Белемска кула”
  • Malay: “Menara Belém”
  • Malayalam: “ബെലെം ടവർ”
  • Maltese: “Torri ta‘ Belem”
  • Maltese: “Torri ta‘ Belém”
  • Maltese: “Torri ta’ Belém”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Belémtårnet”
  • Norwegian: “Belemtårnet”
  • Norwegian: “Belémtårnet”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Torre de Belém”
  • Persian: “برج بلم”
  • Polish: “Torre de Belem”
  • Polish: “Torre de Belém”
  • Polish: “Wieża Belém”
  • Portuguese: “Baluarte de São Vicente a par de Belém”
  • Portuguese: “Baluarte do Restelo”
  • Portuguese: “Torre de Belem”
  • Portuguese: “Torre de Belém”
  • Portuguese: “Torre de são vicente a par de belém”
  • Portuguese: “Torre de são vicente de belém”
  • Romanian: “Turnul din Belem”
  • Russian: “Башня Белем”
  • Russian: “Башня Белен”
  • Russian: “Белемская башня”
  • Russian: “Беленская башня”
  • Russian: “Торре де Белем”
  • Russian: “Торри-ди-Белен”
  • Serbian: “Кула Белем”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Torre de Belém”
  • Slovenian: “stolp Belém”
  • Slovenian: “Stolp Belém”
  • Spanish: “Torre de Belem”
  • Spanish: “Torre de Belém”
  • Spanish: “Torre de Belen”
  • Spanish: “Torre de Belén”
  • Swedish: “Belemtornet”
  • Swedish: “Belémtornet”
  • Tagalog: “Belem Tower”
  • Tagalog: “Tore ng Belem”
  • Thai: “หอคอยบึไล”
  • Turkish: “Belem Kulesi”
  • Turkish: “Belém Kulesi”
  • Turkish: “Torre de Belem”
  • Turkish: “Torre de Belém”
  • Ukrainian: “Башта Белен”
  • Ukrainian: “Беленська башта”
  • Vietnamese: “Tháp Belém”

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