Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Portugal. Coordinates. 38°46′34″N 9°07′33″W / 38.77598°N 9.12577°W / 38.77598; -9.12577. Parent organisations. Ministry of the Sea. The Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (lit. 'Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere'; abbreviated as IPMA) is the national meteorological, seismic, sea and atmospheric ...
Normals. Lisbon has mild to warm, moderated temperatures. Winters are mild especially for its latitude with average daytime temperatures between 15 and 16 °C (59 and 61 °F) and nighttime lows between 8 and 10 °C (46 and 50 °F). Summers are warm to hot, but due to the upwelling phenomena in the western coasts of its metropolitan area, maxima ...
Lisbon Airport. Humberto Delgado Airport (IATA: LIS, ICAO: LPPT), informally Lisbon Airport and previously Portela Airport, is an international airport located seven kilometres (four nautical miles) northeast of the city centre of Lisbon, Portugal. With around 34 million passengers/year, it is the 12th-largest airport in Europe in terms of ...
Lisbon Metro. The Lisbon Metro (Portuguese: Metro de Lisboa) is a rapid transit system in Lisbon, Portugal. Opened in December 1959, [ 4 ] it was the first rapid transit system in Portugal. As of 2023 [update], the system's four lines total 44.5 kilometres (27.7 mi) of route and serve 56 stations.
Lisbon (/ ˈ l ɪ z b ən / LIZ-bən; Portuguese: Lisboa [liʒˈβoɐ] ⓘ) [3] is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits [4] and 2,961,177 within the metropolis. [5]
Belém Tower (Portuguese: Torre de Belém, pronounced [ˈtoʁɨ ðɨ βɨˈlɐ̃j]; literally: Bethlehem Tower), officially the Tower of Saint Vincent (Portuguese: Torre de São Vicente) is a 16th-century fortification located in Lisbon that served as a point of embarkation and disembarkation for Portuguese explorers and as a ceremonial gateway ...
Amongst many institutions found in the parish, there is the Seat of Clube Oriental de Lisboa (football and swimming). The parish also hosts the Estádio Engenheiro Carlos Salema , a football stadium built in 1949 with a capacity for 4,000 people. Since 2012 the parish hosts the "Zumba colours" festival in June. [49]
The Lisbon Metropolitan Area (Portuguese: Área Metropolitana de Lisboa; abbreviated as AML) is a metropolitan area in Portugal centered on Lisbon, the capital and largest city of the country. The metropolitan area, covering 17 cities in 18 municipalities, is the largest urban area in the country and the 10th largest in the European Union, with ...