Belém
Belém is a freguesia and district of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Belém is located in western Lisbon, to the west of Ajuda and Alcântara and directly east of Lisbon's border with Oeiras.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 16,500 residents
- Description: civil parish in Lisboa
- Also known as: “Belém, Lisbon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Belém Tower and Monastery of the Hieronymites.
Belém Tower
Photo: Rehman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Belém Tower, officially the Tower of Saint Vincent is a 16th-century fortification located in Lisbon that served as a point of embarkation and disembarkation for Portuguese explorers and as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon.
Monastery of the Hieronymites
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.
Monument to the Discoveries
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, Lisbon. Located along the river where ships departed to explore and trade with India 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 Almada.
Almada
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Almada is a city of 174,000 people on the Setúbal Peninsula in the Estremadura region on the south bank of the Tagus river, just across from Lisbon.
Bairro Alto
Photo: Lucag, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Bairro Alto is a district in Lisbon, Portugal. Beyond Bairro Alto itself, the district includes other neighbourhoods, notably Chiado and Príncipe Real.
Belém
- Category: freguesia of Portugal
- Location: Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Turkish—“Belém” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բելեն”
- Asturian: “Belém”
- Basque: “Belém”
- Belarusian: “Белен”
- Catalan: “Belém”
- Chinese: “Belém”
- Chinese: “白冷堂区”
- Dutch: “Belém”
- Esperanto: “Belemo”
- Finnish: “Belém”
- French: “Belém”
- Galician: “Belém, Lisboa”
- Galician: “Belém”
- Georgian: “ბელემი”
- German: “Belém”
- Hebrew: “בלן”
- Hungarian: “Belém”
- Indonesian: “Belém, Lisboa”
- Irish: “Belém”
- Italian: “Belém”
- Japanese: “ベレン”
- Lithuanian: “Belenas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Belém”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Belém”
- Polish: “Belém (dzielnica Lizbony)”
- Polish: “Belém”
- Portuguese: “Belem (Lisboa)”
- Portuguese: “Belém (Lisboa)”
- Portuguese: “Belem”
- Portuguese: “Belém”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia de Belém”
- Russian: “Белен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Belém”
- Slovenian: “Belém”
- Spanish: “Belém”
- Swedish: “Belém, Lissabon”
- Swedish: “Belém”
- Turkish: “Belém”
- “Belém”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Centro de Arqueologia de Lisboa and Galeria Av. da Índia.
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