{"id":58761,"date":"2026-10-13T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/?post_type=to-visit&#038;p=58761"},"modified":"2026-10-13T17:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:06:25","slug":"festas-de-lisboa","status":"publish","type":"to-visit","link":"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/de\/attractions-to-visit\/regions-of-portugal\/lisbon-surroundings\/festas-de-lisboa\/","title":{"rendered":"Festas de Lisboa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June, Lisbon celebrates its great popular festivities, crowned by the night of Santo Ant\u00f3nio \u2014 the city&#8217;s saint \u2014 on 12 to 13 June. The neighbourhoods fill with arraiais, grilled sardines and music, and the marchas populares parade down the Avenida da Liberdade in one of the most beloved traditions of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">History and traditions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santo Ant\u00f3nio was born in Lisbon, and his feast became the festival of the city. Through the decades, the marchas populares \u2014 the parade of each neighbourhood, with its songs and costumes \u2014 grew into the heart of the celebrations, alongside the arraiais of the old quarters, with their stalls, sardines and paper decorations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Was Sie erwarten k\u00f6nnen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The parade of the marchas populares, in June.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The arraiais of the historic neighbourhoods, with music and food.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grilled sardines and the flavours of the festival.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The night of Santo Ant\u00f3nio, in the streets of the old city.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Visiting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The festivities are held every year through June, above all around the 12th and 13th, in the centre of Lisbon. The programme of each edition should be confirmed with the municipality before your visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nearby<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The celebrations fill the old city, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/de\/attractions-to-visit\/regions-of-portugal\/lisbon-surroundings\/se-de-lisboa\/\" rel=\"noopener\">S\u00e9 de Lisboa<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/realdreams.pt\/de\/attractions-to-visit\/regions-of-portugal\/lisbon-surroundings\/castelo-de-sao-jorge\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Castelo de S\u00e3o Jorge<\/a> and the riverside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.egeac.pt\/\" rel=\"noopener\">egeac.pt<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Image credit: Marchas Populares de Lisboa, by B\u00e9ria Lima de Rodr\u00edguez, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisbon&#8217;s June festivities, with the marchas populares, grilled sardines and the night of Santo Ant\u00f3nio.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58756,"parent":12301,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1074],"tags":[1072],"attraction-categ":[1066],"localidade":[94],"content-type":[],"grupo-de-experiencias":[],"experiencia-tipo":[],"gestao":[1102],"regioes_turisticas_term":[223],"class_list":["post-58761","to-visit","type-to-visit","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city","tag-region-of-portugal","attraction-categ-festivals-events","localidade-lisbon","gestao-56-publicado","regioes_turisticas_term-lisbon-and-surroundings"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v28.7) - 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