Top Interesting Things To Do In The City Of Lisbon

Lisbon is a gloriously romantic city of which is enriched with plenty of ancient streets. If you have been planning a trip to Lisbon for quite some time now and feeling confused about how to plan a day’s itinerary while vacationing in the city of Golden Light, then you can surely consider following the below mentioned points. These will surely offer you with the rightful assistance when it is about ensuring you with a happening break ahead. 

The essence of Portugal can be best captured provided you take the initiative in laving no stone unturned during the Lisbon tour. This is how you are going to enjoy this glaring opportunity of experiencing the city of Lisbon in a never seen before manner.

•    Try the food: Portugal culture will delight you throughout the tour but it is when you start trying out the National favorites, you will feel more heavenly. Salt cod is considered as the national dish of Portugal which every Portuguese cook in almost 365 different ways throughout the year. Every restaurant in the city will have one spectacular bacalhau dish to offer to the visitors. Apart from these, you can also consider having other favorites which include caldo verde that is the other name for green soup, feijoada which is the bean stew and the several kinds of doces which are the Portugal sweets. Right after stepping out of our hotel corridor, you must start indulging yoursle into some of the sweet pastries at the café shops. After having a fun day of sightseeing, you can relax in the evenings while sampling a glass of port along with ginjinha that is the cherry liqueur.
•    Try the giant iron lift: Santa Justa Elevator was build by a student of Eifel and it takes you up the steep hilly areas from aixa to Bairro Alto. Right after exiting from the gleaming wooden car, you are treated to view the spectacular exquisiteness across the city. This place also lets you to make an easy access to the Carmo Monastery. The giant elevator is located at a close proximal distance from the hotels in Lisbon.
•    Miradouro: While staying over at the VIP Grand Lisboa Hotel and Spa, you can surely consider checking out the picturesque viewpoints across the city of Lisbon. The wonderful places of interest around the city offer a range of spectacular views that are a real feast to see right across the city. You can watch the sunset while sipping a galao.
•    Belem: This district of Lisbon can be reached quite conveniently b taking tram number 15 from Commercial Square. Over here, you can find yourself glaring at the following spectacular sights:
(a)    Discoveries Monuments
(b)    Belem Tower and
(c)    Jeronimous Monastery and gardens.
 

Every summer, this place heaves with a large number o tourists and this is why you shuld try to visit Belem early in the morning in order to avoid the crowd.
•    Alfama: This is regarded as the ancient heart of Lisbon which has survived the great 1755 earthquake. You will find the typical scenes that you see on the postcards on the maze-like streets. This place is steeped with historical facts which you would love to witness during your upcoming Portugal vacation.
 

These are some of the places of interests that you should visit while holidaying in the city of Lisbon.