City Guide
Your guide to the city – local life, family trips and essential visitor info
10 top tips for your Lisbon visit
A city steeped in history, Lisbon is a cultural wonder and it's well worth spending a good solid day investigating all of its many facets, but where do you even start and how do you get around the Portuguese capital? Here are some hints and tips on how survive the wonderful city and all it has to offer.
Time Out Market Lisboa
Mercado da Ribeira has had many guises – its roots can be traced back to the 13th century, and it was once one of the most famous fish markets in Europe. Many of its traders have been selling fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and flowers there for decades – the place is part of the fabric of Lisbon. When Time Out learned in 2010 that the city council was seeking bids for the chance to manage a large part of the iconic attraction, it couldn’t pass up the opportunity. The Time Out Mercado da Ribeira now brings together some of the city’s most loved names in food and drink.
Time Out Shop
Lisbon Guided Walking Tour
Perfect for first-time visitors, this guided walking tour takes you to the major sites of central Lisbon.
City Sightseeing Lisbon Hop-On Hop-Off Tour
Experience the perfect introduction to Lisbon aboard this City Sightseeing hop-on hop-off sightseeing tour!
Lisbon Fado Show and Dinner
Experience Lisbon’s unique culture like a local on this evening sightseeing tour and discover where the musical genre Fado was born.
Belém Walking Tour in Lisbon
Explore Belém and gain insight into Portugal’s rich maritime heritage on this 3-hour small-group walking tour of Lisbon.
Sintra, Cabo da Roca and Cascais Day Trip from Lisbon
Leave Lisbon on a private full-day tour that will take you along Portugal’s unspoiled Atlantic coast to the historical towns of Sintra and Cascais.
Insiders’ guides to Lisbon
How to spend 48 hours in Lisbon
Spending a weekend anywhere in the world is always a challenge, time constraints mean you have to be pretty sharp to be able to squeeze everything in without overdoing it. Here we present a guide to the eats, drinks and tourist hotpots in lovely Lisbon, where it's so easy to lose yourself in its evocative streets.
Gay Lisbon guide
Príncipe Real, Lisbon's gayest neighbourhood has bars for all tastes (and fetishes). From encounters with bears to drag shows, through dark rooms and events where the dress code is no clothes at all to message parties for those who have had enough of Grindr, here is your guide to gay Lisbon.
The best of Lisbon
The best shops in Lisbon
So you've landed in the Portuguese capital, checked in to your accommodation, seen the main sights and now you want to spend some of those hard-earned Euros, but where? Lisbon's shopping is second to none, with everything from quirky little stores selling traditional trinkets right up to more contemporary boutiques and swish stores that stock all the latest fashion, technology and gadgets.
The best places to see Fado music in Lisbon
Fado, meaning 'fate', was born in the 1800s. It's a mournful form of music based around the notion of longing – in fact, they say fado is a window into the soul of the Portuguese. Fado singers perform with such passion that, regardless of whether you understand the language, will have you weeping uncontrollably into your porto.
The best Lisbon attractions
With so many top Lisbon attractions to tick off, your city sightseeing checklist could get very long indeed. That’s why we've put together this list of the city’s essential sights – here you’ll find architectural wonders, spectacular palaces and the best lookout points in Lisbon.
Alfresco Lisbon
The best places in Lisbon to see street art
At some point in the last years, Lisbon's graffiti artists upped their collective game. Now, pieces that once would've been cited as vandalism and whitewashed are worshiped as modern day masterpieces. Check out the work of some of Lisbon's most famous street artists with this tour. And in case you’re the street art fan type, there’s even this app where you can find more than 160 pieces to see across the city.
