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Lisbon District
Lisbon

Baixa

Baixa is a district in , . The Baixa has many squares and monuments, offering numerous photo opportunities. The area suffered devastating destruction in the Great Earthquake on All Saints' Day, 1 November 1755.
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  • Type: Suburb with 12,800 residents
  • Description: neighborhood of Lisbon, Portugal
  • Also known as: “Baixa Pombalina”, “Lisbon Baixa”, “Pombaline Lisbon”, and “Pombaline Lower Town”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Castle of São Jorge and Santa Justa Lift.

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 capital of , located in the freguesia of Santa Maria Maior.

Photo: Maria Eklind, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The , also called Carmo Lift, is an elevator, or lift, in the civil parish of , in the historic center of , Portugal.

Square
Photo: Bznein, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The King Pedro IV Square, popularly known as Rossio, is a square in the Pombaline Downtown of , Portugal. It has been one of its main squares since the Middle Ages.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bairro Alto and Alfama.

Photo: Lucag, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a district in , . Beyond itself, the district includes other neighbourhoods, notably Chiado and Príncipe Real.

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The is the oldest neighborhood of , spreading on the slope between the 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".

Suburb
is a former parish in the municipality of , Portugal. At the administrative reorganization of Lisbon on 8 December 2012 it became part of the parish São Vicente.

Baixa

Latitude
38.7108° or 38° 42′ 39″ north
Longitude
-9.13708° or 9° 8′ 14″ west
Population
12,800
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Open location code
8CCGPV67+85
Open­Street­Map ID
way 394631209
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­retail
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
11886963
Wiki­data ID
Q804032
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Ukrainian—“Baixa” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Baixa de Lisboa”
  • Catalan: “Baixa de Lisboa”
  • Catalan: “Baixa Pombalina”
  • Chinese: “庞巴尔下城”
  • Danish: “Baixa Pombalina”
  • Dutch: “Baixa Pombalina”
  • Esperanto: “Baixa Pombalina”
  • Finnish: “Baixa Pombalino”
  • Finnish: “Baixa”
  • French: “Baixa (Lisbonne)”
  • French: “Baixa pombalina”
  • French: “Baixa”
  • Galician: “Baixa de Lisboa”
  • German: “Baixa (Lissabon)”
  • German: “Baixa von Lissabon”
  • German: “Unterstadt”
  • Hungarian: “Baixa”
  • Italian: “Baixa Pombalina”
  • Italian: “Baixa”
  • Japanese: “バイシャ・ポンバリーナ”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Baixa”
  • Polish: “Baixa”
  • Portuguese: “Baixa de Lisboa”
  • Portuguese: “Baixa Pombalina de Lisboa”
  • Portuguese: “Baixa Pombalina”
  • Portuguese: “Lisboa Pombalina”
  • Romanian: “Baixa din Lisabona”
  • Russian: “Байша Помбалина”
  • Russian: “Байша”
  • Slovenian: “Lizbonska Baixa”
  • Spanish: “Baixa de Lisboa”
  • Spanish: “Baixa pombalina de lisboa”
  • Spanish: “Baixa Pombalina de Lisboa”
  • Spanish: “Baixa Pombalina”
  • Spanish: “Baja de Lisboa”
  • Swedish: “Baixa Pombalina”
  • Turkish: “Baixa pombalina”
  • Turkish: “Baixa Pombalina”
  • Turkish: “Baixa”
  • Turkish: “Pombaline”
  • Ukrainian: “Байша”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Baixa”. Photo: Deensel, CC BY 2.0.