🏨 Half-Day Walking Tour about the African Presence in Lisbon Activity

Half-Day Walking Tour about the African Presence in Lisbon

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Departs: Lisbon, Lisbon

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

Discover the earlier African presence in Lisbon, through open and insightful conversation, while enjoying the wonderful scenery of the city.

Get to know more about the first European capital to receive African slaves, the social relationships, miscegenation, colonization, and the overall participation of Africans in the discoveries together with their influence in the Portuguese culture.

What's Included

Coffee/Tea or bottle of water

Traveler Information

INFANT: Age: 1 - 4
CHILD: Age: 5 - 10
YOUTH: Age: 11 - 20
ADULT: Age: 21 - 64
SENIOR: Age: 65 - 80

Additional Info

Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised

Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

Experience may be cancelled due to Insufficient travelers
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

What To Expect

Alfama

Alfama, the oldest neighborhood in the city of Lisbon, founded by the Arabs. It will be a place to introduce Africa's history, roots, and connections with other people.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Chafariz D'El Rei

This fountain shows the division of social classes during the middle age, where Africans are also represented.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Campo das Cebolas

This place belonged to the old port of Lisbon, where the first African slaves arrived in Europe.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Praca do Comercio (Terreiro do Paco)

One of the most emblematic places in the Portuguese capital, where several events in the country's history took place. An important place in the slave trade.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Cidade Baixa

The central neighborhood of the capital, although destroyed by the 1755 earthquake. It will be a perfect place to talk about the interaction of Africans in Portuguese society.

• Admission Ticket Free

Rua Cor de Rosa

The place were several African women provided services.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Time Out Market Lisboa

One of the best-known places in the capital today, but in the past, it was the place of work for many Africans.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Jardim Dom Luis

In this beautiful Garden, it is where we have the statue of the Marquis Sá da Bandeira, responsible for the abolition of slavery in Portuguese territory and colonies.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Here in front of the Brazilian consulate, we will discuss the topic of transatlantic slave traffic and its consequences.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Rossio Square

One of the central and busiest places in the city of Lisbon. Where we will talk about the integration of Africans and the creation of colonies.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Igreja de Sao Domingos (Santa Justa e Rufina)

Here we can understand the form of integration of Africans in the Catholic religion and the achievements.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Rossio Train Station

Built during the 19th century, with Manueline architectonic style, that represents the country's golden times, a way to claim a place among the European countries that divided Africa into colonies, in the Berlin Conference of 1884.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

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