This district is very beautiful, you can walk through small streets that cross several areas of Lisbon: from Mouraria to Alfama and São Jorge Castle. Taking the famous tram number 28 you will do a scenic route crossing most of the tourist neighborhoods of the city centre. A definite must for any visitor to Lisbon. Worth your visit is the Miradouro de Santa Luzia, a garden terrace with panoramic views, Museu do Fado and Portuguese guitar, and the Museu do Azulejo, with a fantastic tile collection.

Saint George's Castle can be seen from almost everywhere in the city. Its oldest parts date from the 6th century, when it was fortified by the Romans, Visigoths, and eventually the Moors. It served as a Moorish royal residence until Portugal's first king Afonso Henriques captured it in 1147 with the help of northern European crusaders on their way to the Holy Land. It was then dedicated to St. George, the patron saint of England, commemorating the Anglo-Portuguese pact dating from 1371, and became the royal palace until another one (that was destroyed in the Great Earthquake) was built in today's Praça do Comercio. Inside the walls of the castle was the medieval quarter of Santa Cruz, now for the most part a few touristic shops and restaurants. Coming away from the castle is easier than going up, although the rule for finding the castle has always been to just keep going uphill all the way.

On the way, on Rua dos Bacalheiros, stands another attraction, the Casa dos Bicos (House of the Pointed Stones), an early-16th-century town house whose front wall is studded with diamond-shape stones.

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