Jewish Quarter & Museu Judaico de Lisboa

About This Activity

Lisbon's medieval Jewish quarter (Judiaria Grande) occupied the streets between Alfama and the Baixa before the forced conversion of 1497. The Museu Judaico de Lisboa, opened in the heart of the old quarter, documents the Sephardic community that made Portugal a center of Jewish scholarship, medicine, and navigation. Exhibits cover the golden age under Alfonso III, the 1497 forced conversion edict, the crypto-Jewish (converso) tradition that persisted for centuries, and the modern revival of Portuguese Jewish life. The surrounding streets — Rua da Judiaria, Beco dos Judeus — still trace the medieval quarter's footprint.

Seasonal note: Year-round; comfortable walking weather in spring and autumn