Lisbon Travel—Metro System

Figure 1.  4 Metro lines (Blue line / Yellow line / Green line / Red line)

Attraction Points 

From Figure 1. you can find out that:

• The majority of Lisbon's attraction points are located in Baixa District, Almafa District and Belém District.
• Belém District is where MAAT is located (bottom left corner) and not covered by the Metro system.

Figure 2.  Official Metro Map (link)

Metro System

Under normal operating conditions, the Metro opens at 6:30 a.m. and closes at 1:00 a.m. every day, including weekends and public holidays.^[1]

During this time period, it is possible to travel to any station in the same line, provided you board the train until 1:00 am.

Figure 3.  Metro Blue Line

There are four main metro lines (see Fig. 2):

• Blue line
• To reach Baixa-Chiado from Aeroporto, you can take Red Line and then transfer to Blue line at São Sebastião (see Fig. 3).
• Yellow line
• Green line 
• Red line

Figure 4.  Metro Sul do Tejo (source: Wikipedia)

Figure 5.  Various tickets sold at vendor machine (dated before pandemic)

There also different ways to pay for your trips (retrieved on 12/18/2022; see Fig. 5):

1. Single ticket
1. Carris/Metro ticket 1,50 €
2. 1 day ticket (24h)
• Carris/Metro 6,45 €
• Carris/Metro/Transtejo (Cacilhas) 9,60 €
• Carris/Metro/CP 10,70 €
3. Zapping
• Is the easiest and most economical way of paying for occasional inter-modal public transport in Lisbon.  
• Is a pre-paid option that lets you travel on on CP, Carris, Metro de Lisboa, Transtejo/Soflusa, Fertagus e Metro Sul do Tejo (see Fig. 4), according to the rules in in force for each operator.
• Metro journey 1,35 € 

Video 1.  Portugal, LISBON: Everything you need to know | Chiado and Bairro Alto (YouTube link)

Lisbon, Portugal | Vlog 1 (Video 1) 

00:00 - Introducing Lisbon 

01:55 - Avenida da Liberdade 

04:17 - Metro 

05:32 - A Brasileira coffee shop 

07:04 - Chiado 

08:05 - Largo do Carmo 

09:04 - Carmo church 

11:03 - Elevador e miradouro de Santa Justa 

13:06 - Portuguese food: cod fish (bacalhau) 

14:59 - São Roque church 

16:23 - Gloria funicular and Miradouro São Pedro de Alcântara 

17:14 - Bairro Alto - daytime and nightlife 

References

1. metrolisboa.pt (English link)
2. Comboios de Portugal (CP)
• Comboios de Portugal, EPE is a state-owned company which operates passenger trains in Portugal.
3. Carris
• Carris is a public transportation company in Lisbon, Portugal. Carris operates Lisbon's buses, trams, and funiculars. It does not operate the Lisbon Metro.
4. Transtejo (Cacilhas)
• Is ferry service between Transtejo and Transtejo Cacilhas
• Select language (EN PT) on the left top corner of its home page
• Transtejo and Soflusa provide a public river transport service integrated into the global system of the Metropolitan Area of ​​​​Lisbon, being a fundamental element in crossing the Tagus.