Sephardic Lisbon Private Tour
Lisbon, Portugal
Trip Type: Private Sightseeing Tours
Duration: 8 hours
Private Tour - Lisbon’s Jewish heritage goes back to the beginnings of city foundation. With three thousand years of history, Lisbon overflows with influences of Sephardic presence.
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Private Tour - Lisbon’s Jewish heritage goes back to the beginnings of city foundation. With three thousand years of history, Lisbon overflows with influences of Sephardic presence.With three thousand years of history, Lisbon overflows with influences of Sephardic presence. Lisbon’s Jewish community came to develop a unique culture that was the reflection of their total social integration, which was only broken after the Renaissance. Get into the sounds, smells and beauty of Lisbon’s ancient alleyways, full of Sephardic memories. We will take to the neighbourhoods where the biggest Jewish community in Europe inhabited for centuries.
We will begin the tour remembering the smallest Jewry in Lisbon, built by the medieval University. After, we will show you where the Jewish Cemetery was placed and will take you to know where was the location of "Small Jerusalem" (the biggest Jewish quarter ever existed in Europe). Then we will show you the other Jewish quarters where is still possible to feel their environment and understand their relevance in the city. Discover why, even today, you can feel Sephardic influences, all over the town.
We will tell you the reason why Jewish community was important for Portuguese Golden Age of Discoveries and will tell about the intellectuals, the mathematicians, the cabalists. Do you know João Gonçalves Zarco, Pedro Nunes, Abraão Zacuto? Discover the men who sailed the Atlantic Ocean toward Madeira Island, the African Coast and the New World coasts. The men who designed the entire globe in maps that, even today, are admirable by their precision.
You will feel Sephardic presence guided by a professional and comfortably driven by a tourism driver.
A full day to understand why, for many years, Portuguese people were known as “the Jewish”, all over Europe.
Discover Lisbon!
We will begin the tour remembering the smallest Jewry in Lisbon, built by the medieval University. After, we will show you where the Jewish Cemetery was placed and will take you to know where was the location of "Small Jerusalem" (the biggest Jewish quarter ever existed in Europe). Then we will show you the other Jewish quarters where is still possible to feel their environment and understand their relevance in the city. Discover why, even today, you can feel Sephardic influences, all over the town.
We will tell you the reason why Jewish community was important for Portuguese Golden Age of Discoveries and will tell about the intellectuals, the mathematicians, the cabalists. Do you know João Gonçalves Zarco, Pedro Nunes, Abraão Zacuto? Discover the men who sailed the Atlantic Ocean toward Madeira Island, the African Coast and the New World coasts. The men who designed the entire globe in maps that, even today, are admirable by their precision.
You will feel Sephardic presence guided by a professional and comfortably driven by a tourism driver.
A full day to understand why, for many years, Portuguese people were known as “the Jewish”, all over Europe.
Discover Lisbon!
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