Places
Direção de Faróis
Regular Visits
Visits without booking but with ticket distribution
Tours
Sat 14h00, Lighthouse keeper Filipe Figueiredo / Sun 09h30, Lighthouse keeper Rui Reis
Caleidoscópio
Maximum 25 people per visit
Visit with ticket distribution
No reservation required; first-come, first-served
No wheelchair access
Photography allowed
Description
A lighthouse is made to see and be seen. The lighthouse at Leça da Palmeira is a landmark in the territory that draws itself as a vertical in contrast to our gaze that, near the sea, is always looking for the line of the horizon. Everyday visitors contemplate it as an architectural element that composes that landscape. The experience of visiting its insides allows the ascending to the heights of Boa Nova, giving a panoramic perception of the surroundings, in a new framing in which the lighthouse is the only element absent from the composition, unlike what we are used to. The experience of being inside is setting ourselves in the place of the other, who inhabits this device of alert and watch, the perspective of the lighthouse keeper that in this way for some moments will also be our own.
Location
Avenida da Liberdade
Directions: Google Maps / Apple Maps
Public Transport
Bus: Maré - 104, 106