Belém

Belém is a freguesia and district of , the capital of . Belém is located in western Lisbon, to the west of and Alcântara and directly east of Lisbon's border with .
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  • 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.

, 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.

Protected area
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.

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 Almada.

is a district in , .

is a city of 174,000 people on the in the region on the south bank of the Tagus river, just across from .

is a district in , . Beyond itself, the district includes other neighbourhoods, notably Chiado and Príncipe Real.

Belém

Latitude
38.6962° or 38° 41′ 46″ north
Longitude
-9.2131° or 9° 12′ 47″ west
Population
16,500
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
Open location code
8CCGMQWP+FP
Geo­Names ID
12573305
Wiki­data ID
Q18500330
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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
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Highlights include Centro de Arqueologia de Lisboa and Galeria Av. da Índia.

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Belém”. Photo: pedrik, CC BY 2.0.