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Day Trips by Coach from Lisbon
Lisbon's Sete Rios bus station, opened in 2004.
24 June 2010
Compiled by John Laidlar |
This page will be developed further to include suggestions for coach day-trips from Lisbon. The following destinations can be reached from Lisbon's modern Sete Rios coach station in north-west Lisbon, adjacent to the railway station of the same name and the Metro station of Jardim Zoológico. Coach travellers will find the Rede Expressos website of great use for times, fares and tickets.
At Sete Rios coach terminal tickets can be bought on the day or in advance. As you enter from the metro station walkway, to the right there is a rack of pocket-sized coach service timetables which can be useful for planning journeys. The tickets issued include a seat number so make sure you occupy the correct seat on departure.
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An historic agricultural town lying 183km from Lisbon in the Alentejo, south-east of Lisbon, this was a Roman town known as Pax Iulia.
A pleasant historical town, whose bus "terminal" is a space outside the disused railway station. The area is famous for marble, which adorns many buildings.
Famous for its well-preserved Roman Temple to the goddess Diana, this town (150km south east of Lisbon in the Alentejo), also has surviving historic city walls. Coaches take around an hour and 45 min utes to reach the toen from Lisbon.
138km from Lisbon, this town has a hilltop castle near the town centre. In 2010 coaches from Sete Rios ran roughly hourly and the journey took and hour and three quarters.
Famous for the "Lines of Torres Vedras", defensive works created by Wellington's army and the local population in the Peninsular War, Torres Vedras has a ruined castle reached by a fairly comfortable uphill walk, which gives decent views of the surrounding countryside. On the walk to the castle, the Kenia cafe makes an excellent stop, offering excellent cakes and other light refreshments. Buses are fairly frequent and take about 45 minutes from Lisbon, many of them carrying on to the coastal town of Peniche which is a further 50 minutes away.
Right: Beja bus station

Caldas da Rainha
Castelo Branco
Estremoz

Left: Estremoz, 2005
Évora
Leiria
Santarém
Setúbal
Torres Vedras
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Compiled by John Laidlar