Editorial Policy · Love Lisbon

Love Lisbon is built for trip planning that feels human: the right neighborhood clusters, a realistic walking pace, and simple rules that make the city easier to love.

Our guides focus on decisions travelers actually need to make — where to base yourself, how to structure days, and what to prioritize — with enough context to understand the why.

Trust isn’t a checkbox — it comes from being clear about what we know, what can change, and how we build a recommendation. Guides are produced and reviewed by the Love Lisbon editorial team; we attribute authorship to that team as an organisation rather than inventing a personal byline.

We keep the advice that stays true (routes, pacing, hill logic, the rhythm of the miradouros) stable, and we flag the things that move (Metro and ferry fares, museum hours, the Santo António and NOS Alive dates) with a link to the official source.

For practical details, we encourage readers to verify official sources close to travel time. For planning advice, we focus on what stays true: geography, walking logic, and how neighborhoods connect.

We do not try to compete with real-time listing sites. Instead, we link to our own guides that explain how to choose, sequence, and pace your days.

Guides improve when readers tell us what changed. If you spot something outdated (a closure, a major renovation, a transit change), we want to hear it.

When sending a correction, include the page URL, what you observed, and (if possible) the source or the date you saw the change.

Love Lisbon is designed to be useful whether or not you spend money through links. If we ever use affiliate links or sponsored placements, we will disclose them clearly on the relevant page.

We do not accept pay-to-play recommendations that compromise editorial integrity.

The core of our approach is separating two kinds of information. Durable facts — Lisbon’s hill-and-river geography, which neighbourhoods cluster together, how the calçada walks, when light is best at a given miradouro, which CP line reaches Sintra or Cascais — change slowly if at all, so we state them plainly. Perishable facts — Metro and ferry fares, museum hours, ticket rules, festival dates, and renovation closures — change often, so we deliberately avoid hard numbers and instead describe them in evergreen terms and link the operator or venue for the current detail.

Where a closure or major change is known at the time of review, we note it as a ‘check the official site’ flag rather than a fixed date — for example, the Museu Nacional do Azulejo and the Gulbenkian Founder’s Collection have been undergoing renovation with reopenings expected, and those are exactly the kind of facts we point you to verify rather than pin. This is why a page can stay useful long after a fare or an opening time has moved on.