Tartarugas

Tartarugas is in Belém, Lisbon. Tartarugas is situated nearby to the lake Lago parque dos moinhos, as well as near Patos.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cemitério da Ajuda and Monastery of the Hieronymites.

Cemitério da Ajuda

Cemetery

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Cemitério da Ajuda is a cemetery, which is situated 100 metres east of Tartarugas.

Monastery of the Hieronymites

Protected area

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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. Monastery of the Hieronymites is situated 1¼ km south of Tartarugas.

National Museum of Ethnology

Museum

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The National Museum of Ethnology is an ethnographic museum in Lisbon, Portugal. The museum holds the most important ethnographic collections in the country. National Museum of Ethnology is situated 510 metres southwest of Tartarugas.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ajuda and São Francisco Xavier.

Ajuda

Village

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Ajuda is a freguesia and district of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Ajuda is located in western Lisbon, northeast of Belém and west of Alcântara. The population in 2011 was 15,617.

São Francisco Xavier

Suburb

São Francisco Xavier is a former civil parish in the city and municipality of Lisbon, Portugal. It was created on February 7, 1959. At the administrative reorganization of Lisbon on 8 December 2012 it merged with the former parish of Santa Maria de Belém, thus creating the new Belém parish.