ALFAMA
FREE TOUR

Come for a stroll with Take Lisboa through the narrow streets of Lisbon Old Town. Our Alfama Free Tour covers three thousand years of contrasting history in around two and a half hours of amusing anecdotes and fascinating facts. The Alfama free walking tour will take you through Phoenician ventures, Roman frameworks and Arabic heritage, to give you a more complete picture of all the things that make up Lisbon’s identity and our culture. Forget about Tram 28, we are venturing ourselves inside the old city Lisbon, a labyrinth of streets and squares, where google maps don’t help and Fado is heard at every corner. Together we will discover the essence of Lisbon and its most ancient roots. We will begin our tour from Casa dos Bicos (House of Spikes) and discover the secret behind the diamond-shaped façade. Casa dos Bicos is now José Saramago's Foundation, Portugal's only Nobel Prize literature winner and one that paid a very singular homage to our city. Following the narrow streets along the river we will arrive at Largo do Chafariz de Dentro. This square was once the most important in the city and had this name because the fountain was built inside the Fernandina wall. With the Fado Museum in front of you, several streets lead up the hill from this square and this is where we will enter the heart of Alfama. Alfama is the oldest district of Portugal, where everything began. Alfama is a real life tile museum, where you will eat the best sardines in Lisbon and where you will listen to real Fado. The steep stairs, the rusted balconies, the secular Lisbon tiles, this is true Lisbon, as real as it can be. After a moderate climb, we will visit one of Lisbon’s most incredible viewpoints at Portas do Sol. Above us, Tram 28 slowly climbs the hills towards the São Vicente de Fora church. Below us, we can see the Tagus River in all its extension, its blue waters reflecting the warm sun. Nothing beats the beautiful light of Lisbon in the Santa Luzia viewpoint. Breathtaking. Our Alfama Free Tour will end our tour near the Lisbon Cathedral, where we will share many stories about St. Anthony and the city’s many traditions and festivities. This is arguably the city’s most authentic walking tour and it’s much more about legends, myths and traditions than monuments, it’s all about the Lisbon spirit. You will also be rewarded by our guide’s suggestions to what to do in Alfama. Take our Alfama Free Tour so you can finally understand the meaning of the word Saudade.