4.2.6 Panteão Nacional

Campo de Santa Clara

Location HERE.

Closed Mondays.

Formerly the Igreja de Santa Engrácia, this imposing building was converted into the National Pantheon in 1916, but despite building having started back in 1682, was not finally finished until the central dome was added in 1966.


Some of the figures represented here were actually buried elsewhere, such as Vasco da Gama and Henry The Navigator. But those commemorated more recently have been interred here, such as General Humberto Delgado, who exposed the Estado Novo’s sham democracy for what it wasn’t, football legend Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, and greatest of Fadistas, Amália Rodrigues.


What strikes the visitor is the sheer size of the building’s interior, the central open space made possible by the four corner columns supporting the dome. You can climb up to the various upper levels, and even to the gallery beneath that dome. CAUTION more of those shiny stone steps, although some are quite shallow. Those used to a handrail with their steps will be disappointed. Because there isn’t one.

Buses 10B and 13B stop outside; a climb up from Santa Apolónia Metro and rail station.

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