Step by step with Art and Science - Between Amoreiras and the Chiado

Visit eight Lisbon museums stopping at eight metro stations

The metro is not just the quickest form of transport in Lisbon. It has stops at key points on the route between Rato and the Baixa-Chiado, along which are eight iconic Lisbon museums:



- Museu Arqueológico do Carmo (Carmo Archaeological Museum)
- Museu do Chiado (Chiado Museum)
- Museu da Farmácia (The Pharmacy Museum)
- Museu Nacional da História Natural e da Ciência (National Museum of Natural History and Science)
- Museu Geológico (Geological Museum)
- Museu da Água da EPAL - Reservatório da Mãe d'Água e Reservatório da Patriarcal
(EPAL Water Museum - Mãe d'Água Reservoir and Patriarcal Reservoir)
- Museu Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva (Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva Museum)
- Museu de São Roque (Museum of São Roque). 

Visit eight Lisbon museums, stopping at eight metro stations. On the route between Amoreiras and the Chiado, one of the most culturally dynamic in the city of Lisbon, there are eight museums with collections as diverse as archaeology, history, art history, the fine arts and the sciences. What's more, the metro is itself a museum of modern and contemporary art, with amazing spaces which surprise for the boldness and artistic quality of their tiled walls. 

To complement the art and science tours, between January and August 2015 on the last Saturday of each month, there will be a free guided tour, by prior reservation, to each of the eight museums located between Rato and the Chiado to discover the close relationship that exists between the metro stations and the museums.

More information at http://arteeciencia.wix.com/

New airport Metro station opens

The new subway stations of the red line – Moscavide, Encarnação and Aeroporto – opened for service today. The extension of the red line between Oriente/Aeroporto has 3326 meters and three new stations, with a estimate mensal value of new passengers around 400 thousand passengers/year.

The passengers will be welcomed by caricatures of Portuguese personalities,  like artist Vieira da Silva, poet Fernando Pessoa, Nobel Prize doctor Egas Moniz and aviators Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho who made the first flight across the southern Atlantic.

This enterprise will have a significant impact on the accessibilities to and from the Lisbon International Airport, constituting an important interface for the passengers of the air transport and for the generality of the people that work in that area.

By the other hand, it also serves the residential areas of Moscavide and Olivais (around 7% of the total population of the Lisbon city lives in Olivais area).

The three new stations will allow a significant reduction of the CO2 emissions, in about 5 thousand tonnes/year.

With this new connection it will the possible to travel from the city administrative center (Saldanha) to the Lisbon International Airport in 16 minutes.

Take the subway:)

Source: Metro de Lisboa