Category Archives: Visits

On 23 November, the Club offered its members a cultural afternoon with a guided visit to the Tile Museum, Madre de Deus Convent and Santos-o-Novo Convent, conducted by Dr. Anísio Franco, whose descriptions and explanations of the convents were excellent. In the Church of the Convent of Madre de Deus, the carved wood and tilesContinue reading “Visit to the convents of Madre de Deus and Santos-o-Novo”

On June 7, the Lyceum Club paid a visit to the recently inaugurated Royal Treasury Museum in Palácio da Ajuda, where we were able to admire, divided into 11 thematic nuclei, a precious collection made up of gold and diamonds from Brazil, coins and medals of the Crown, the valuable jewels of the Crown withContinue reading “Visit to the Royal Treasury Museum”

The Lyceum Club held on June 2nd a guided visit, with Dr. Miguel Pamplona, to the French Embassy, located in the former Palace of Santos belonging to the Lancastre family and acquired in 1909 by the French Government.

On April 28th, the first cultural event with the new Lyceum Club Board took place, an interesting guided tour to the Lisbon Geographical Society. In 1875, a group of 74 intellectuals, journalists and politicians of the time asked King Luís to create the Lisbon Royal Geographical Society, with the aim of promoting and assisting theContinue reading “Guided tour to the Lisbon Geographical Society”

The Club held an interesting guided tour of the Lisbon Military Museum on 8th February. The collection of bronze artillery pieces is considered to be one of the most complete worldwide, both for its inscriptions and heraldic symbols, and for the ornamentation in the style of the respective casting periods. The 7 monumental paintings installedContinue reading “Guided tour to the Lisbon Military Museum”

On 20 January, the Club had a guided visit, with Dr. Madalena Fernandes, to the Lázaro Leitão Aranha Noble House. It was commissioned in 1734 by the principal of the Patriarchal Cathedral and lecturer at the University of Coimbra, Lázaro Leitão Aranha. In the atrium, a beautiful marble staircase and, on the walls, twelve figuresContinue reading “Guided tour to Lázaro Leitão Aranha Noble House”

The Club organised last 16th of July a guided tour to the exhibition hosted at the King D. Luís Gallery, at the Ajuda Palace. The exhibition reviews Queen Maria II’s two reigning decades (1834-1853) through art works, jewellery, objects and documents evoking the Queen’s biography, since her origins, upbringing, family life, her marriages, as wellContinue reading “Exhibition “D. Maria II – From Brazilian princess to queen of Portugal: 1819-1853””

The past 25th of June, the Lisbon Club organised a guided tour to the exhibition “All I want” (hosted at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation), counting over 240 works of painting, sculpture, drawing, object, book, film and video, produced by 40 different Portuguese artists, from 1900 to 2020, including such names as Aurélia de Sousa, MariaContinue reading “Exhibition “All I want””

Last 26th October, the Lisbon Club organised a tour through some burroughs in Lisbon to see several works of Urban Art that have been populating the city in recent years. Some of those areas included: Mouraria, Alfama, Graça, Santa Apolónia, Cais do Sodré and Santos. It’s noteworthy to point out the Wall of tiles byContinue reading “Tour of the Urban Art in Lisbon”

On June 3rd, the Club made a guided tour with a historian to the Castle of São Jorge, which proved to be very interesting. After the confinement period, this was the first event in the second quarter program. We share the group photo here.