Castles · Tour

Skip the Hour-Long Queue at São Jorge, Ticket and Map Handed Over

The Castelo de São Jorge is hard to avoid in Lisbon, and that is the problem with it. It is the thing everybody visits, tickets are hard to get on the day, and the queue at the gate regularly runs over an hour. This is the ticket that skips it. Someone from the operator is waiting at the meeting point with the ticket and a map, hands them over, and sorts out anything that goes wrong at the entrance rather than leaving you to argue with a turnstile. What the ticket covers is the castle itself: the archaeological excavation on the site, the museum with material going back to the 7th century, and the garden of native species.