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25E · 28E
5.5 / km²
4
0
464
−4% vs city
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Staying in Campo de Ourique
Campo de Ourique is the nineteenth-century grid laid out west of Estrela, between the Prazeres cemetery and the Rato. It is the rarest thing in central Lisbon: level ground. The streets run straight, the pavements are wide, and the whole parish is the size you can cross in fifteen minutes.
This is where Lisbon families live, and it shows in what is on the street - a covered market that turned into a good food hall without turning into a tourist one, bakeries, hardware shops, and restaurants where the menu is not in four languages. Tram 28 terminates here, so you board it at the start of the route with a seat, rather than fighting on at Graça.
The cost is distance and quiet. It is about half an hour on foot down to the Baixa and a real climb back, there is no metro station in the parish, and the evening ends early. Nothing on a first-timer's list is here. For a second visit, for a week, or with children, that is the point rather than the problem.
What works
- Flat, walkable grid - genuinely rare in central Lisbon
- Tram 28 starts here, so you get on at the terminus with a seat
- The Mercado de Campo de Ourique is a food hall locals still use
- Quiet at night and priced for residents rather than visitors
What does not
- No metro station in the parish - trams and buses only
- About 30 minutes down to the Baixa and a hard climb back up
- Nothing a first-time visitor came to Lisbon to see is here
- Very little open after about 23:00
Instead of paying for a ride on one of the costly tourist buses, try line 28, which winds its way through the "Old Town" of Lisbon beginning in Graça then down to the Alfama and to the Baixa then up through Chiado to Bairro Alto, and then down to Campo Ourique, taking you by many of Lisbon's most famous and interesting sites including monuments, churches and gardens.