Museu Calouste Gulbenkian

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"Opened in 1969, the Museum houses Calouste Gulbenkian's notable private collection. The building was built according to the most modern concepts of museum architecture, in close harmony with the park that surrounds it. The set of buildings and gardens was designed as a whole where the public circulates freely without delimited spaces. The project by architects Ruy Jervis Athouguia, Alberto Pessoa, Pedro Cid, Gonçalo Ribeiro Teles and António Barreto was awarded the 1975 Valmor Prize, with the particularity of this being the first time that this award included not only the building but the entire the garden space with great landscape value. The tour through the Museum includes the sections of Egyptian Art, Greco-Roman Art, Islamic Art, European Painting and the notable collection of pieces of goldsmithing by René Lalique. In the Painting collection, which includes canvases from the Flemish, Dutch, French, English and Italian schools since the 19th century. XVI to century. XIX, the works of Rogier van der Weyden, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Frans Hals, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Hubert Robert, Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas, among many others, deserve to be highlighted. Also noteworthy are the sculpture centers (mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries), Renaissance tapestry (Italian and Flanders) and French furniture (periods of Louis XV and Louis XVI)."
Melissa Pereira
"The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum is a cultural institution showcasing a diverse collection of art and artifacts. The museum features an impressive collection of artworks, including paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and archaeological artifacts."

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You know the exercise of planning what to visit in a city by searching online "what to do in XXXX" and opening 10 tabs in an attempt not to let anything escape? And then not fully understanding what were the most relevant things for your kind of traveller? Well, I've been there multiple times!!! That's why I though that, as a local in Lisboa who has explored everything this city has to offer, I can make things easy for someone planning to visit it by creating a single source of information with all that. 86 places split into categories to make navigation and priorization easy: 1. Lisboa-exclusive places you must go to (3 tiers according to relevance) 2. Places around Lisboa you should visit (includes Sintra, Almada and Mafra) 3. Hidden gems (again 3 tiers according to relevance) 4. Old trams / Elevators / Funiculairs (you can be a fan and go around all of them or simply pick the best ones, which I refer) 5. Viewpoints (again, either go to all of them or just my top picks) 6. Things you can do around the world and here are nice as well On top of that you've got the ultimate Portuguese food checklist with 45 things you shoult try and whithout which your trip will be incomplete (90% of them can be found in Lisboa) My main objective with this guide is not to go into detail about each of these attractions but rather to categorize and give some hints about it so you decide whether to put it on your plan or not. If it is a monument or museum requiring a deep explanation of the hitory around it, you'll find it there. In case you have any question while planning your trip, we can also make a quick call for free ;) I wish you enjoy this city as much as I do and please do send me a message with feedback on this guide, as I use that to improve on it.
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