Lisbon is a historic city with many stories to tell. It is the city that inspires both locals, tourists and artists, the city where the sun shines 290 days a year, the city that conquers everyone's heart. Through this post , you will discover several illustrations on the cultural heritage of the city, ideal for those who seek to do cultural tourism in Lisbon, exploring their history and all its monuments that represent the cultural heritage of the capital.
4 places of cultural tourism in Lisbon that you cannot miss
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum houses the remarkable Caluste Gulbenkian collection. It was inaugurated in 1969 and was built according to the most modern concepts of museological architecture in harmony with the surrounding garden. In the museum, various arts are exhibited, from Egyptian art, Greco -Roman art, Islamic art, European painting and the remarkable collection of jewelry pieces by René Lalique. For painting lovers, the museum houses canvases of schools: flamenco, Dutch, French, English and Italian from the 16th century to the 19th century.
East Museum
The East Museum is a testimony of historical relations between Asia and Portugal, the first country to reach the most distant ports of the East, the East Museum is located in La Doc de Alcântara, in a building in the 40s, together with the Tagus River.
The museum consists of 2 floors, with two permanent exhibitions. On the first floor we find the exhibition dedicated to the "Portuguese presence in Asia", consisting of artistic and documentary objects gathered over the years by the Eastern Foundation.
On the second floor the exhibition "Gods of Asia" of the Kwok On collection, one of the most important of its type at European scale, which includes more than 13,000 pieces, was planned.
National Tile Museum
Created in 1965, it became the Balejo Museum in 1980. Its collection and exhibition show the history of tile in Portugal through the production of tiles from the second half of the 15th century to the present. Several works are exhibited, from ceramics, porcelain and crockery from the 16th to the 20th centuries.
Fado Museum
The Fado Museum is the representation of Fado Universe, chosen Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2011, Fado Museum mission is to spread the knowledge about Fado, since its opening the museum has welcomed hundreds of personalities, interpreters, authors , composers. , musicians, among others. The Fado Museum includes a school, a guitar workshop, a documentation center, an auditorium, a circuit of permanent exhibitions and a space dedicated to temporary exhibitions.
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