Belém
Belém is a freguesia and district of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Belém is located in western Lisbon, to the west of Ajuda and Alcântara and directly east of Lisbon's border with Oeiras.Photo: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Monastery of the Hieronymites
Protected area
Photo: Holger Uwe Schmitt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in the parish of Belém, in the Lisbon Municipality, Portugal.
Monument to the Discoveries
Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 4.0.
The Monument of the Discoveries is a monument on the northern bank of the Tagus river estuary, in the civil parish of Santa Maria de Belém, Lisbon.
National Archaeology Museum of Lisbon
Museum
The National Museum of Archaeology is the largest archaeological museum in Portugal and one of the most important museums devoted to ancient art found in the Iberian Peninsula.
Localities in the Area
Alcântara
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Alcântara is a freguesia and district of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.
Ajuda
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ajuda is a freguesia and district of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.
Belém
- Type: Locality
- Description: civil parish in Lisboa
- Category: freguesia of Portugal
- Location: Belém, Lisbon, Lisbon District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.7° or 38° 42' northLongitude
-9.2° or 9° 12' westElevation
23 metres (75 feet)Open Location Code
8CCGMRX2+X2GeoNames ID
6946666Wikidata ID
Q18500330Belém Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Armenian: Բելեն
- Asturian: Belém
- Basque: Belém (Lisboa)
- Basque: Belém
- Belarusian: Белен
- Catalan: Belém
- Chinese: Belém
- English: Belém, Lisbon
- Esperanto: Belemo (Lisbono)
- Esperanto: Belemo
- Finnish: Belém (Lissabon)
- French: Belém
- Galician: Belém, Lisboa
- Galician: Belém
- Georgian: ბელემი
- German: Belém
- Hebrew: בלן
- Hungarian: Belém (Portugália)
- Hungarian: Belém
- Irish: Belém
- Italian: Belém
- Japanese: ベレン
- Min Nan Chinese: Belém
- Occitan (post 1500): Belém (Lisbona)
- Occitan (post 1500): Belém
- Polish: Belém (dzielnica Lizbony)
- Polish: Belém
- Portuguese: Belem
- Portuguese: Belem (Lisboa)
- Portuguese: Belém
- Portuguese: Belém (Lisboa)
- Russian: Белен
- Slovenian: Belém
- Spanish: Belém
- Swedish: Belém, Lissabon
- Swedish: Belém
- Turkish: Belém
- Turkish: Benavila
- Santa Maria de Belem
- Santa Maria de Belém
Other Places Named Belém
In the Area
Belém is situated close to the neighbourhoods Junqueira and Bairro do Alto da Ajuda.
- Bairro 2 de MaioNeighbourhood
- Bairro da GNR (Ajuda)Neighbourhood
- Pedreira de El-ReiLocality
- Casalinho da AjudaNeighbourhood
- ResteloNeighbourhood
- Mata do MalhóLocality
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Belém. Photo: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0.