Restelo Hermitage
The Hermitage of Restelo, alternately Chapel of Saint Jerome, is a hermitage in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém, in the municipality of Lisbon.Photo: GualdimG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Gonçalo Matos, CC0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Roman Catholic
- Description: building in Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal
- Also known as: “Hermitage of Restelo”
- Address: Praça de Itália, Capela de São Jerónimo
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Monastery of the Hieronymites and Belém Tower.
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. Monastery of the Hieronymites is situated 730 metres southeast of Restelo Hermitage.
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. Belém Tower is situated 1 km south of Restelo Hermitage.
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. Monument to the Discoveries is situated 1 km southeast of Restelo Hermitage.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Belém Tower and São Francisco Xavier.
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.
Restelo Hermitage
- Categories: chapel, cultural heritage, building, tourism, tourist attraction, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Belém, Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.70134° or 38° 42′ 5″ northLongitude
-9.21365° or 9° 12′ 49″ westOperator
DGPC, Decreto-Lei n.º 115/2012, DR, 1.ª série, n.º 102 de 25 maio 2012Open location code
8CCGPQ2P+GGOpenStreetMap ID
way 176257624OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=chapelOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=roman_catholicWikidata ID
Q9695886
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Portuguese—“Restelo Hermitage” goes by many names.
- Czech: “Capela de São Jerónimo”
- Czech: “Ermida de São Jerónimo”
- Czech: “kaple sv. Jeronýma”
- Czech: “poustevna Restelo”
- Czech: “poustevna sv. Jeronýma v Lisbonu”
- Portuguese: “Capela de Sao Jeronimo”
- Portuguese: “Capela de São Jerónimo”
- Portuguese: “Ermida de São Jerónimo”
- Portuguese: “Ermida do Restelo”
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