20 min
45 min
20 min
12E · 28E
15.2 / km²
4
2
1,230
−7% vs city
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Staying in São Vicente
São Vicente is Graça, the upper half of Alfama, the National Pantheon and the Feira da Ladra flea market. It has the two best free viewpoints in the city, Miradouro da Graça and Senhora do Monte, and a room with a view up here costs less than a room without one down in the Baixa.
The reason is transport. There is no metro station anywhere in the freguesia. You have tram 28, which is standing-room-only in both directions by the time it reaches Graça, a handful of buses, or the climb: roughly 90 vertical metres up from the Baixa on cobbles that are slippery in rain.
Book it if you will be out walking all day anyway and the view at breakfast matters more than the walk home. Do not book it for anyone hauling a suitcase up from the metro, because there is no metro to haul it up from.
What works
- Miradouro da Graça and Senhora do Monte, both free and both worth it
- Tram 28 runs through it, and you board before the centre fills it
- Cheaper than Santa Maria Maior for a room with a much better view
- Feira da Ladra flea market on Campo de Santa Clara twice a week
What does not
- No metro station in the freguesia at all: tram, bus or the climb
- About 90 vertical metres up from the Baixa, on cobbles
- Restaurants thin out quickly away from the two viewpoints
- Tram 28 arrives here already full in the other direction
If you have the energy, get there by walking from downtown, going through the fantastic old neighbourhood of Alfama.Two-star out-of-the-way lodging (but it's directly on the Tram line 28).