45 min
25 min
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15E · 18E
1.4 / km²
6
0
288
−7% vs city
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Staying in Alcântara
Alcântara is the old industrial strip between Estrela and Belém, and it is the part of Lisbon that changed most in the last fifteen years. LX Factory, a print works turned into bookshops, restaurants and a rooftop, is here. So are the Docas de Santo Amaro, a row of restaurants and clubs in the old dock buildings directly beneath the 25 de Abril bridge.
The rooms are the cheapest riverside stock in the city, the Cascais train stops at Alcântara-Mar, and Belém is four minutes away by rail. For a second visit, or for anyone whose evening is the point of the trip, that is a real argument.
What you are buying with it is a motorway overhead. The bridge carries traffic all night and you hear it. Between LX Factory and the docks the district is warehouses, dual carriageway and container yards, the Baixa is forty-five minutes on foot, and midweek the Docas are a car park with the restaurants shut.
What works
- LX Factory is inside the district, not a tram ride from it
- Trains from Alcântara-Mar reach Belém in four minutes and Cascais in thirty
- Cheapest riverside rooms in Lisbon by a clear margin
- The Docas put twenty restaurants and bars in the old dock buildings
What does not
- The 25 de Abril bridge runs overhead and carries traffic all night
- Forty-five minutes on foot to the Baixa, or a tram that crawls
- Between LX Factory and the docks it is warehouses and dual carriageway
- Midweek the Docas are a car park with most of the restaurants closed
Other districts of interest to the tourists are generally those by the riverside - the historic Belém in the southwest, the modern Parque de Nações in the northeast and the gentrifying Alcântara by the Bridge of April 25.For more of a clubbing or disco experience, try the Docas district along the marina overlooking the Ponte 25 de Abril.