10:00 — 18:00
* Self-guided visit
Pets are not allowed.
The access is limited, on a first-come, first-served basis, without prior registration.
This is an entirely free event.
This garden is open daily and can be visited (upon payment) independently of the festival's programme.
Currently attached to the National Costume Museum and the National Theatre and Dance Museum in Lumiar, it was during its ownership by the Marquis of Angeja in the 18th century that this botanical garden was designed as a complement to a Natural History museum. Considering the closeness between the Marquis of Angeja and Domenico Vandelli at the Portuguese Court, it is likely that the Italian botanist — responsible for the foundation of the Ajuda Botanical Garden — helped in the design of this space.
The purchase and merger of several estates by the Duke of Palmela in the 19th century expanded the park to its current 11 hectares. Immortalised in Almeida Garrett’s poetry, it is among the “beauties of this park, among those flowers” that we can still recognise the structure of recreational estates: botanical garden, rose garden, orchard, meadows, woods and vegetable garden.
A landmark for its gigantic size and historical importance, the Monteiro-Mor Botanical Park is home to the first Norfolk Pine (Araucaria heterophylla) to be planted in mainland Portugal, in 1842.
