Facing Largo do Rato and Rua da Escola Politécnica, this garden-terrace is adjacent to Palácio Palmela, home since 1977 to the Portuguese state’s public prosecution service. 

On this guided visit you will learn about the history of the building and its daily operations today, as well as getting a surefire unique opportunity to see its imposing trees.

The Municipal Nurseries of Pimenteira Farm, managed by Lisbon City Council’s Department for the Environment, Green Spaces, Climate and Energy, are located in the middle of Monsanto Forest Park, and are where many of the plants found in the gardens and parks of the city are grown and looked after.

This guided visit, led by Council team members, will reveal the great diversity of species held in these nurseries, as well as the work that is carried out to produce and maintain them.

Urbem is a social NGO with an environmental mission, run by volunteers who work under a shared vision of reconnecting people with forests and the environment.

This urban forest is the result of a partnership between Lisbon City Council – within the scope of the international project Conexus (H2020) – Piloto 1 RENATURA. The project LIFE LUNGS, part of the EU LIFE programme, is another project that supports this pilot through Lisbon City Council. Urbem also receives further support from PLMJ.

This guided visit along a 1200 metre-long footpath begins at the Vale do Casal Vistoso Urban Forest and ends at the sheep meadow in Belavista Park. It will take in the methodology of Miyawaki forests, and participants will be able to try delicacies produced by the flock of sheep that maintains the meadow within this green infrastructure.

Monteiro-Mor Botanical Park has its origins in the joining of lands from old 18th century estates, in which traces of their earlier structures can still be seen: the botanical garden, the rose garden, the orchard, the meadows, the woods and the farm. Beyond its notable tree species, the garden’s diversity of plants, with their different shapes and scents, is an excellent theme for a guided visit.

Amidst the smells of crushed leaves and the scents of vibrant flowers, we invite you to discover the Monteiro-Mor Botanical Park and activate your senses with bay leaves, rosemary and lavender, lemon verbena and camomile, roses and wisteria. This interactive experience fuses Spring colours and aromas in this historical garden.

The Municipal Nurseries of Pimenteira Farm, managed by Lisbon City Council’s Department for the Environment, Green Spaces, Climate and Energy, are located in the middle of Monsanto Forest Park, and are where many of the plants found in the gardens and parks of the city are grown and looked after.

This guided visit, led by Council team members, will reveal the great diversity of species held in these nurseries, as well as the work that is carried out to produce and maintain them.

The project “From the Sky to the Table”, a community project promoting food self-sustainability through vertical farming, has been developed in the Aquilino Ribeiro Machado Horticultural Park, between the neighbourhoods of Murtas and São João de Brito e Pote D’Água, in Alvalade.

The project seeks to make the most of the pedagogical potential of the Community Greenhouse. By bringing consumers closer to the production process, it stimulates involvement in agricultural practices and the urgent questions of food sovereignty, thus leading to community self-organisation and environmental and economic sustainability.

This visit to the Alvalade Community Greenhouse shows off a meeting place for the local community, which encourages a practical, conscious and reflexive way of living, based on active participation in building a shared city setting.

The Necessidades Royal Estate is one of the largest and most notable green spaces in the city of Lisbon, due to its unique combination of history, art, botany and landscaping, spread over approximately 10 hectares.

We invite you to join a guided visit that starts at the windmill, the oldest building on the Estate lands, before proceeding along the forest and landscaped garden, passing through various hubs that make up the Estate’s buildings, waterways and landscapes, ending at the south entrance next to the gatehouse, where you can visit the Necessidades Square viewpoint.

Facing Largo do Rato and Rua da Escola Politécnica, this garden-terrace is adjacent to Palácio Palmela, home since 1977 to the Portuguese state’s public prosecution service. 

On this guided visit you will learn about the history of the building and its daily operations today, as well as getting a surefire unique opportunity to see its imposing trees.

The Tapada da Ajuda, a natural environment featuring both forest and agriculture, is home to the university campus of the School of Agriculture (ISA).

The buildings that make up the Teaching and Research Hub of the ISA and the Astronomy Observatory Hub contain a botanical collection featuring some rarities that are worth having a look at. This guided visit leads between dragon trees (Dracaena draco), various pine species and the incredible Chilean wine palm (Jubaea chilensis).

The project Bairro Verde (Green Borough) aims to create a green corridor by planting more than 200 balconies along Rua de São Paulo. Bringing together like-minded residents and local businesses, the project also involves taking advantage of and enlivening public space, as well as sprucing up the area and those who live there.

Among this multiplicity of building facades, streets and alleyways, gardens and wild plants, there are many things we might take a look at. This guided visit will reveal the green details and stories along the route leading from Ribeira das Naus, through Praça de São Paulo and over to Largo de Nuno Álvares (Jardim de Santos).

Terras de Minas Horticultural Park is located on the School of Agriculture (ISA) campus, opening in April 2023 as part of an agreement between Lisbon Council and ISA.

We invite you to discover the native and exotic plants in the Horticultural Park, medicinal and edible or toxic, and which are the most common. It’s time to eradicate the concept of ‘weeds’ and recover the idea that many of these plants contribute significantly to our diet and health, as well as being vital for the ecosystem, as a shelter for animals, a source of food for pollinators and providing protection against soil erosion. At the end of this activity, we will taste wild teas and patês prepared using some of the plants we identify.

Tucked away in the heart of Lisbon, protected from the hustle and bustle of the city, we find the Lisbon Estufa Fria: three greenhouses that replicate specific biodiverse climates and act as a source of much inspiration.

On this visit led by the Estufa Fria team, with senses sharpened we will follow through this beautiful garden and get to know the varied species of plants from all over our planet, from Japan to Mexico.

Monteiro-Mor Botanical Park has its origins in the joining of lands from old 18th century estates, in which traces of their earlier structures can still be seen: the botanical garden, the rose garden, the orchard, the meadows, the woods and the farm. Beyond its notable tree species, the garden’s diversity of plants, with their different shapes and scents, is an excellent theme for a guided visit.

Amidst the smells of crushed leaves and the scents of vibrant flowers, we invite you to discover the Monteiro-Mor Botanical Park and activate your senses with bay leaves, rosemary and lavender, lemon verbena and camomile, roses and wisteria. This interactive experience fuses Spring colours and aromas in this historical garden.

In the ground we walk on, and the rocky substrates hidden under the vegetation that grows in these soils, we can find ancient stories. Did you know that the geological history of the Lisbon region features volcanic eruptions and boiling seas where limestone was deposited?

This walking route through Monsanto Park takes us in search of what is hidden, what is heard but not seen, the vestiges left by living things and, simultaneously, the traces of the park’s own rich history, creation and development.

Urbem is a social NGO with an environmental mission, run by volunteers who work under a shared vision of reconnecting people with forests and the environment.

This urban forest is the result of a partnership between Lisbon City Council – within the scope of the international project Conexus (H2020) – Piloto 1 RENATURA. The project LIFE LUNGS, part of the EU LIFE programme, is another project that supports this pilot through Lisbon City Council. Urbem also receives further support from PLMJ.

This guided visit along a 1200 metre-long footpath begins at the Vale do Casal Vistoso Urban Forest and ends at the sheep meadow in Belavista Park. It will take in the methodology of Miyawaki forests, and participants will be able to try delicacies produced by the flock of sheep that maintains the meadow within this green infrastructure.

Urbem is a social NGO with an environmental mission, run by volunteers who work under a shared vision of reconnecting people with forests and the environment.

This urban forest is the result of a partnership between Lisbon City Council – within the scope of the international project Conexus (H2020) – Piloto 1 RENATURA. The project LIFE LUNGS, part of the EU LIFE programme, is another project that supports this pilot through Lisbon City Council. Urbem also receives further support from PLMJ.

This guided visit along a 1200 metre-long footpath begins at the Vale do Casal Vistoso Urban Forest and ends at the sheep meadow in Belavista Park. It will take in the methodology of Miyawaki forests, and participants will be able to try delicacies produced by the flock of sheep that maintains the meadow within this green infrastructure.

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation gardens were designed by the landscape architects Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles and Manuel de Azevedo Coutinho during the 1950s and 1960s. In this stunning garden, as Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles put it, “we are in fact in the Mediterranean where the light is diffuse, so the leaves function as mirrors during one or two hours of the day and this is fundamental for life. And there is something else related to sound in this garden, which is the water, which flows here and there”

Any space is made up of much more than the eyes can see. In the Gulbenkian Garden, the light, the reflections, the different temperatures, and the sound of running water were all used as highly detailed tools with which to construct contrasting environments, which transport us to distant places in our memories.

On National Gardens Day, celebrated on the date that Gonçalo Ribeira Telles was born, landscape architect Aurora Carapinha will guide us through the Gulbenkian Garden revealing the subtle work of the senses in the construction of this garden.

This informal walk through Monsanto Forest Park will create space for the germination of new conversations regarding what we can smell in our surroundings.

Join perfumer Miguel Matos and let your sense of smell and ideas about scents flow, as we answer some questions and ask many others: what is the art of fragrance? What is a perfumer and what does their work entail? How do we bottle natural elements to make perfumes? What can we smell in Monsanto and how can we take Monsanto home with us as a fragrant memory?

Drawing on the biodiversity present in the park, at the end of the walk a tincture will be made using plant species collected along the way.

The Museum of Lisbon Gardens – Palácio Pimenta are leisure gardens, developed to complement the 17th century palace that is now home to the Museum of Lisbon.

Gods, divinities and fantastical stories can be discovered in the museum and garden of Pimenta Palace. Statues that personify summer, autumn and spring; Neptune and his retinue of marine creatures and even a curious dedication to the messenger god – Mercury.

Come and discover the oneiric, mythological dimension of the Museum of Lisbon Gardens – Palácio Pimenta, led by Filomena Barata.

Currently attached to the National Costume Museum and the National Theatre and Dance Museum in Lumiar, this Park occupies around 11 hectares where we can still recognise the original structure of recreational estates: botanical garden, rose garden, orchard, meadows, woods and vegetable garden. Among its admirable vegetation, we can find the first Norfolk Pine (Araucaria heterophylla) to be planted in mainland Portugal, 180 years ago.

This visit is led by Rui Costa, the landscape architect responsible for the Park, who will tell us about its various constitutive elements, the features that reveal the art of gardening from different eras, the Park’s owners and its current keepers.

The Tapada da Ajuda, a natural environment featuring both forest and agriculture, is home to the university campus of the School of Agriculture (ISA).

The buildings that make up the Teaching and Research Hub of the ISA and the Astronomy Observatory Hub contain a botanical collection featuring some rarities that are worth having a look at. This guided visit leads between dragon trees (Dracaena draco), various pine species and the incredible Chilean wine palm (Jubaea chilensis).

Acting as a continuation of the project “From the Sky to the Table”, the project “From School to the Table” features a holistic growing system consisting of a vertical farm, a horizontal farm, a ring-shaped agroforest and a composting station, all at Dom Luís da Cunha Primary School in the neighbourhood of Alvalade. 

The project seeks to make the most of the pedagogical potential of this model, sparking children’s interest in biodiversity, sustainable food and eating, and responsible habits. It thus promotes the conservation of the environment, and the social, physical and mental well-being of the school community.

This guided visit introduces the space, where ideas can be exchanged and new projects can be inspired around the city.

Starting from an idea dreamt up by a small group of students, HortaFCUL was founded in mid-2009. Now it is a space where various interested parties work together on the development of systemically-designed projects that have a real-world application and a local identity, and are inspired by ecological principles.

Join this guided visit run by the Permalab team through the three HortaFCUL spaces (Hortinha, FCULresta and Permalab) and learn about the history of the project and its activities. These are three spaces full of scents, colours, sounds and sensations.

The word “jardim” (“garden” in Portuguese) has its roots in the German word meaning “enclosed”.

Santos-o-Novo Convent is located close to the river in the neighbourhood of Santa Apolónia. Construction began in 1609 during the reign of Filipe II of Portugal, under the direction of D. Cristóvão de Moura, the king’s viceroy and favourite. Sheltered unexpectedly within the building’s imposing rectilinear structure we find the church, richly decorated with gilded carvings and baroque azulejo tiles, and the cloister, the largest in terms of covered area in the Iberian Peninsular.

Discover and walk through the garden of this beautiful cloister, with its geometrically sculpted box hedges and fragrant roses.

The project Bairro Verde (Green Borough) aims to create a green corridor by planting more than 200 balconies along Rua de São Paulo. Bringing together like-minded residents and local businesses, the project also involves taking advantage of and enlivening public space, as well as sprucing up the area and those who live there.

Among this multiplicity of building facades, streets and alleyways, gardens and wild plants, there are many things we might take a look at. This guided visit will reveal the green details and stories along the route leading from Ribeira das Naus, through Praça de São Paulo and over to Largo de Nuno Álvares (Jardim de Santos).

Monsanto Forest Park occupies around 900 hectares of land with a variety of environments and a profusion of different plant species, such as the buçaco cedar (Cupressus lusitanica), the Portuguese oak (Quercus faginea), the cork oak (Quercus suber), and the holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia).

This walk will take us on a route through the most emblematic species in Monsanto Forest Park, as we learn about this space from its mother trees.

Facing Largo do Rato and Rua da Escola Politécnica, this garden-terrace is adjacent to Palácio Palmela, home since 1977 to the Portuguese state’s public prosecution service.

On this guided visit you will learn about the history of the building and its daily operations today, as well as getting a surefire unique opportunity to see its imposing trees.

Terras de Minas Horticultural Park is located on the School of Agriculture (ISA) campus, opening in April 2023 as part of an agreement between Lisbon Council and ISA.

We invite you to discover the native and exotic plants in the Horticultural Park, medicinal and edible or toxic, and which are the most common. It’s time to eradicate the concept of ‘weeds’ and recover the idea that many of these plants contribute significantly to our diet and health, as well as being vital for the ecosystem, as a shelter for animals, a source of food for pollinators and providing protection against soil erosion. At the end of this activity, we will taste wild teas and patês prepared using some of the plants we identify.

Acting as a continuation of the project “From the Sky to the Table”, the project “From School to the Table” features a holistic growing system consisting of a vertical farm, a horizontal farm, a ring-shaped agroforest and a composting station, all at Dom Luís da Cunha Primary School in the neighbourhood of Alvalade. 

The project seeks to make the most of the pedagogical potential of this model, sparking children’s interest in biodiversity, sustainable food and eating, and responsible habits. It thus promotes the conservation of the environment, and the social, physical and mental well-being of the school community.

This guided visit introduces the space, where ideas can be exchanged and new projects can be inspired around the city.

There are many places to discover in this forest, which resulted from a reforesting project on Serra de Monsanto in the last century. The Biodiversity Space is a fenced-off area with distinct paths through a landscape that mimics the natural ecosystem.

This sunrise walk in Monsanto Forest Park will reveal animal, plant, fungi and lichen species that all live together. These educational pathways will teach our visitors new things about the environment.