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Places worth the detour in Lisbon

Detourmap lists 51 places in Lisbon, Portugal, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Carmo Convent. 48 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Archaeological29 Nature22
Places
51
Oldest
Ruínas de São Miguel de Odrinhas 1 BC
Little known
48 of 51
Share of Portugal
13%

Lisbon 51

All 51, best known first.

Elsewhere in Portugal

Faro52 Azores44 Évora26

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Lisbon?

Carmo Convent, 15th century. Former monastery of the Carmelite Order in Lisbon. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Lisbon?

51: 29 archaeological & historic sites and 22 nature & landscapes. 48 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in Lisbon?

Ruínas de São Miguel de Odrinhas, dated to 1 BC. 7 of the 51 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Lisbon here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Lisbon if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Lisbon is a first-level division of Portugal, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.