With a whiff of summer in the air, the Festivities of Lisbon offer a welter of entertainment activities that will invade Lisbon’s oldest neighbourhoods, luring lure thousands of people into the streets.
Santo António - Lisbon’s patron saint - overseas the city’s festivities that reach their highpoint on the evening of June 12, with a procession of popular marches through the Avenida da Liberdade. On the afternoon of June 13, a procession in homage to the popular Saint - who is believed to foster marriages - winds its way through the streets around the Sé cathedral and provides a special religious flavour to the festivities. Evenings are animated by traditional festivities in Lisbon’s oldest neighbourhoods - from Castelo to Mouraria, Graça, Alfama, Ajuda and the Bairro Alto - with lots of music and dance to the rhythm of popular songs. Decorated with coloured globes and garlands, the city’s streets are invaded by the smell of roasted sardines and sweet basil accompanied by paper carnations and paintings that allude to Santo António.
Lisboa Oceanarium has been recognised as the best oceanarium in Europe and the second best in the world by TripAdvisor, the largest travel and tourism website with more than 50 million visits annually.
Tripadvisor has published the top 10 best zoos and oceanariums, based on the quality and quantity of user feedback over a period of 12 months.
"Excellent", "must visit", "Wonderful", "Extraordinary", "Amazing", "Awesome" are some of the opinions that can be read to describe the Lisboa Oceanarium, ranking it between first and second place of Lisboa's most reputable city attractions.
