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Miradouro de Largo das Portas do Sol (viewpoint) near the castle (about three-quarters of
the way up the hill), or stay on the trolley and you'll be dropped back where you started.
Here's what you'll see on your self-guided trolley tour: Leaving Praça da Figueira,
you enter Largo de Martim Moniz—named for a knight who died heroically while using
his body as a doorjamb to pry open the castle gate, allowing his Christian Portuguese
comrades to get in and capture Lisbon from the Moors in 1147. The big, maroon-colored
building capping the hill on the left was a Jesuit monastery until 1769, when the dictat-
orial Marquês de Pombal booted the pesky order out of Portugal and turned the building
into the Hospital São Jose. Today, this is an immigrant neighborhood with lots of cheap
import shops.
Lisbon's Best Viewpoints ( Miradouros and Belvederes )
The first three viewpoints are included in the self-guided walks described in this
chapter:
• Miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara (view terrace in Bairro Alto, at top of El-
evador da Glória funicular; see “The Bairro Alto and Chiado Stroll,” here )
• São Jorge Castle (on top of the Alfama; see photo above and “The Alfama
Stroll,” here )
• Miradouro de Largo das Portas do Sol (south slope of Alfama; see “The Alfama
Stroll,” here )
• Elevador de Santa Justa (in the Baixa, here )