Lisbon Zoo
Since 1884, the first park of fauna and flora on the Iberian Peninsula, with some 2,000 animals of 300 species.
Lisbon Zoo (Jardim Zoológico de Lisboa)
Opened in 1884, Lisbon Zoo was the first park with fauna and flora on the Iberian Peninsula. It was founded by Pedro Van Der Laan, José Thomaz Sousa Martins and Baron Kessler, with the support of King Fernando II and the zoologist José Vicente Barboza do Bocage. First set up in the Parque de São Sebastião da Pedreira, given free of charge by its owners, and later at Palhavã, it settled at the Quinta das Laranjeiras, where its permanent premises opened on 28 May 1905; in 1913 it was declared an institution of public utility. Shipments of animals from Africa and Brazil made it one of the largest and most varied zoological collections, but the fall of the Estado Novo regime and cuts in subsidies led, from 1990, to a new management policy focused on modernising the facilities, animal welfare and conservation education, with the creation of the Education Centre and, in 2008, of a veterinary hospital. Today the park is home to some 2,000 animals of around 300 species of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, in a space that combines conservation, research, education and leisure and opens every day of the year.
Located at: Jardim Zoológico
Address: Praça Marechal Humberto Delgado, 1549-004 Lisboa
Opening hours: daily 10:00-18:00 (21 September to 20 March) and 10:00-20:00 (21 March to 20 September); ticket offices close at 17:15 and 18:45
Phone: +351 217 232 900
Coordinates: 38.7426301, -9.167976
Buses: 701, 726, 731, 771, 754, 755, 768, 52B, 58B, 716
Metro: Jardim Zoológico (Blue), Laranjeiras (Blue)
Train: Cintura Line, Sete Rios Station
Opened: 1884 (142 years)
