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Type:
Cultural
Price from:
245 EUR /person
Payment Types:
  • No Cash
  • No Credit Card
  • No Cheque
  • No Travellers cheque
  • No Paypal
  • No Wire Transfer
Location Start:
Lisbon
Location Finish:
Lisbon
We Speak:
English
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Last updated: 06/11/2009

We welcome you to join us for an introduction to the Jewish barrios and their history, background on the establishment of the Inquisition in Portugal; insights into Jewish and Crypto-Jew life here.

Itinerary

Day 1

Jewish Lisbon Half Day Private Tour
(4 Hours):

Notes: A significant portion of the tour is by foot (in a pedestrian-only area)

Visit Shaare Tiekva (closed on Friday-Sundays), built by the Lisbon Jewish community in 1904 by architect, Ventura Terra.

Next we head to Rossio to Marquês de Pombal Square. Sebastiao José de Carvalho e Melo, the Marquis of Pombal was himself of Jewish origin. Under his government as Prime Minister under King Joseph I (1750-1777) the distinction between New Christians and Old Christians was annulled.

Rossio, the Holy Office headquarters in Lisbon, was an infamous site during the Inquisition period.

Your tour concludes in Alfama, crossing Praça de Comércio (short stop to view the square, historic site of the Inquisition for public activities), one of Lisbon's oldest quarters in Rua da Judiaria in the Old Jewish Quarter, intersected by narrow cobbled streets.

Highlights:

The Jewish districts of the City, the Sephardic Synagogue; Alfama, Rossio, Praça do Comercio, Se, S. Domingos Church and St. Jorge castle.

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