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This weekend, Lisbon has three major concerts: Gilberto Gil with his opera, Beatrice Rana at Gulbenkian, and Minkowski at CCB. The rest is mostly chamber and niche music, and it is as good as your appetite for experimentation.
Lisbon and surroundings
Gilberto Gil — “Amor Azul”
📅 October 10, 21:00
📍 Coliseu dos Recreios
💸 from €60
Gilberto Gil (a Brazilian music legend and former Minister of Culture of Brazil) is usually heard with a guitar, but here he is singing in an opera. “Amor Azul” features 40 songs based on the “Gita Govinda”, a 12th-century Indian poem about the love of the god Krishna. Gil is joined on stage by a choir, symphony orchestra and opera company from Bahia, conducted by the opera’s co-creator Aldo Brizzi. There is only one performance in Lisbon, and the project is unlikely to return.
Djavan — “Djavanear 50 Anos”
📅 October 11, 21:00
📍 MEO Arena
💸 €30–69
The Brazilian singer and guitarist, author of “Oceano” and “Flor de Lis”, celebrates 50 years on stage with a concert made entirely of hits. Smooth MPB (música popular brasileira, Brazilian popular music) with jazz harmonies that several generations of Brazilians grew up with. The arena will sing along to every song, and you will probably start singing too.
Beatrice Rana
📅 October 11, 18:00
📍 Gulbenkian, Grand Auditorium
💸 €24–46
The Italian pianist is invited by the world’s leading orchestras, and her recordings are released by Warner Classics. The first half is dry, mathematical Bach and Debussy’s études; the second is nocturnal Chopin: nocturnes, a ballade and a scherzo. Two hours after which you will want to walk home across the whole of Lisbon.
Beatrice Rana performing in Philadelphia, 2025. Photo: The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Les Musiciens du Louvre and Marc Minkowski — Handel
📅 October 11, 19:00 (pre-concert talk at 18:30)
📍 CCB, Grand Auditorium, Belém
💸 Ticket
French conductor Marc Minkowski founded this orchestra in 1982 and still performs Baroque music with it on period instruments. All six of Handel’s Concerti grossi will be performed in one evening. Minkowski goes for fast, nervous tempos, so there will be no time to get bored. If you are not sure you like Baroque, start with this concert.
Dire Straits Legacy
📅 October 10, 21:00
📍 Sagres Campo Pequeno; they are also playing Multiusos de Gondomar near Porto on October 9
💸 €35–120
Mark Knopfler will not be there, but people who stood alongside him on stage will: keyboardist Alan Clark, guitarist Phil Palmer, drummer Danny Cummings and saxophonist Mel Collins of King Crimson. Italian singer Marco Caviglia is on vocals. If you missed Dire Straits in the 1980s, this is about as close to the original as you can get today: “Sultans of Swing” and “Money for Nothing” in a circular bullring.
Raquel Tavares — Amadora Fado
📅 October 10, 21:00
📍 Cineteatro D. João V, Amadora
💸 €12,50
The Lisbon fado singer, who has been singing since she was seven, closes the Amadora Fado festival. Here, fado is heard in a concert hall rather than between the main course and dessert, and the voice comes through without the clatter of cutlery. A good way to understand why the Portuguese love this genre.
Luís Vicente Trio — “Expanding Horizons”
📅 October 10, 22:00
📍 Fórum Cultural do Seixal
💸 €12
Portuguese trumpeter Luís Vicente (named Musician of the Year by jazz.pt in 2025) has put together an international lineup for SeixalJazz. He is joined by Argentine pianist Leo Genovese, American saxophonist Tony Malaby, bassist Gonçalo Almeida and Dutch drummer Onno Govaert. This is free jazz: nobody knows where the music will turn a minute from now, including the musicians themselves. €12, on the other side of the Tagus.
Dal
📅 October 10, 19:00
📍 Gulbenkian, Grand Auditorium
💸 €19
A Korean duo playing two traditional zithers. The strings of the gayageum are plucked with the fingers, while the geomungo is struck with a bamboo stick, producing a sound that can be silky one moment and percussive the next. 70 minutes of wordless music that is almost impossible to hear elsewhere in Lisbon.
Orquestra Metropolitana Soloists — “Zelenka”
📅 October 10, 21:00
📍 Igreja de São Bartolomeu do Beato, Rua do Grilo 116 C
💸 Free
Jan Dismas Zelenka was a Czech composer at the Dresden court, highly valued by Bach and then forgotten for two centuries. Two oboes, bassoon and harpsichord will perform his trio sonatas, as well as a Fantasy and Fugue by Bach, beneath the vaults of an old church in Beato. Admission is free and no tickets are needed: just show up.
FEIA #6
📅 October 10, 15:00–23:00; October 11, 15:00–19:00
📍 ZABRA, Av. Infante D. Henrique 332; on Saturday, continuation at Damas from 22:00
💸 Pay what you can
More than twenty independent Portuguese labels in one room, each bringing a concert, DJ set or video projection. Here you buy a record from the person who released it and an hour later hear the band live. If you want to understand what is happening in Lisbon beyond fado, start here.
Festival Imersivo
📅 October 9–11, concerts at 19:30
📍 Lisboa Incomum
💸 Free, registration required
Electroacoustic music comes from a dome of speakers all around you, making it feel as if you are inside the instrument. Friday brings the premiere of “Re-Memory I” by composer Hugo Vasco Reis with violist Trevor McTait, while on Saturday clarinetist Catarina Crespo performs. A VR installation by Ricardo Almeida runs during the day on Saturday and Sunday. Admission is free, but advance registration is required.
Porto and surroundings
Rui Veloso Trio
📅 October 9, 21:00
📍 Super Bock Arena
💸 Ticket
Rui Veloso is known as the father of Portuguese rock: everyone in Portugal knows his 1980 album “Ar de Rock”. Now he takes to a circular stage with two guitarists, Alexandre Manaia and Eduardo Espinho: just guitars, blues and ballads. In Porto, everyone knows his songs, and that is the main reason to go — to see the whole city sing along.
Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto — “Mozart’s Serenade”
📅 October 9, 21:00
📍 Casa da Música, Sala Suggia
💸 €26–30
Mozart wrote Serenade K.286 for four orchestras that answer one another like an echo. A recording cannot convey this; you need to hear it in the hall. Dutch conductor Jan Willem de Vriend, a specialist in 18th-century music, leads the performance. Alongside Mozart, there will be symphonies by two Bachs, father and son, and Portuguese composer João Domingos Bomtempo. And the Rem Koolhaas-designed hall is reason enough to come even without the music.
Midori Hirano — “Otonoma”
📅 October 9, 21:30
📍 GNRation, Braga
💸 €9
The Berlin-based Japanese pianist runs her piano through modular synthesizers until it dissolves into ambient. This is material from her new album on the American label Thrill Jockey. If you like Nils Frahm (the German composer who combines piano and electronics), it is worth taking the trip to Braga for this one: €9 and about 45 minutes by train.
ars ad hoc
📅 October 11, 18:00
📍 Serralves Museum Auditorium
💸 €7,50
A Portuguese string trio plays music in which violin, viola and cello rustle, creak and whisper. The programme includes Hungarian composer György Kurtág, Italian Salvatore Sciarrino, German Helmut Lachenmann, French Marc André and a world premiere by Spanish composer Inés Badalo. After this hour, you will hear the sounds around you differently. Best experienced after a walk through Serralves Park.
Away from the capitals
Jazz ao Centro — final night
📅 October 10, 21:30 and 23:00
📍 TAGV and Salão Brazil, Coimbra
💸 Ticket
Two concerts close the main jazz festival in central Portugal. At 21:30, drummer Pedro Melo Alves leads the 17-piece Omniae Large Ensemble: a big band that sounds like contemporary composition. At 23:00, the small club hosts Carlos Bica AZUL: the Berlin-based bassist with German guitarist Frank Möbus and American drummer Jim Black. The trio celebrates 30 years of its “Azul” album. A good reason to spend an evening in student-filled Coimbra.
Dance
The main event is No Art on the waterfront in Algés. The rest are familiar club nights and a few daytime open-air parties that depend on the weather more than the lineup.
Lisbon and surroundings
No Art Lisbon
📅 October 10, 15:00–02:00
📍 Passeio Marítimo de Algés
💸 Ticket
Eleven hours of house and melodic techno on the banks of the Tagus, from afternoon sunshine to the nighttime river. The lineup includes Dutch duo ANOTR, Swiss duo Adriatique, British disco producer SG Lewis, Swedish DJ Jennifer Loveless and Klin Klop. Dutch DJs Franky Rizardo and Mau P (author of “Drugs from Amsterdam”) will play a back-to-back set. The first festival in 2025 drew 15,000 people and sold out. 18+.
No Art Lisbon at Passeio Marítimo de Algés, 2025.
Raresh
📅 October 9, 23:59–08:00
📍 Ministerium, Praça do Comércio
💸 Ticket
Romanian DJ from the trio [a:rpia]: the label became the center of Romanian minimal, slow hypnotic house built around endless mixing. This is music for a long night that turns into meditation by morning. At 8 a.m., you can walk out of the club straight onto an empty Praça do Comércio. 19+.
TKESHI Festival LX Edition
📅 October 10, 16:00–23:00
📍 Those Who Dance, Av. Infante D. Henrique
💸 Ticket
The festival was born in 2020 in the Kojori pine forest outside Tbilisi. After Georgia’s political crisis and the ban on using the forest venue, it moved to Lisbon. Saturday is the final showcase after a week of labs: electronic music and video created as one unified work. A chance to see the Georgian scene without flying to Tbilisi.
Intercell
📅 October 10, 15:00–23:59
📍 Escala25, under the 25 de Abril Bridge
💸 Ticket
Trance and techno right under the bridge: cars rumble overhead, the Tagus flows nearby. Headliners are Pegassi and Australian DJ Partiboi69 with his ghetto house and provocative stage persona. This is the last open-air of the season; after that, parties move indoors until spring. 21+.
Two Lanes — “A Part Of Us”
📅 October 10, 21:00
📍 LAV, Sala 2
💸 €25
German brothers Leo and Rafa Schmid perform live on piano and analogue synthesizers. The concert starts as neoclassical and ends as melodic techno, and you will not notice the moment it shifts. For anyone who wants to both listen and dance.
15 Years of Assemble Music
📅 October 10, 16:00–23:59
📍 Collect, LX Factory
💸 Ticket
The Lisbon crew, which has spent fifteen years putting out dub techno and deep house parties and releases, is celebrating its anniversary. Playing are British house producer Willow (Workshop label), German minimalist Patrick Specke and local residents. Deep, warm sounds from sunset to midnight — for those who like to feel the bass through their whole body.
afterglow: grounding
📅 October 10, from 17:00
📍 Village Underground, Alcântara
💸 Free, registration required
Melodic house and techno outdoors among shipping containers and old buses under the bridge. Admission is free, but you need to get a ticket in advance on Shotgun. The cheapest way to spend Saturday sunset on a dancefloor.
à escuta — second anniversary
📅 October 11, 15:00–22:00
📍 Rua de Marvila 42
💸 €12
A party for attentive listening: shoes come off at the entrance, and the dancefloor is replaced by carpets and cushions. Vítor Rua (co-founder of rock band GNR and later the avant-garde duo Telectu) will perform an ambient piece, followed by DJs taking over the decks. A soft landing after Saturday night.
Porto and surroundings
Massimiliano Pagliara
📅 October 10, from 23:59
📍 Pérola Negra
💸 €10
A Berlin-based Italian and Panorama Bar resident, the upper room of Berghain. House, disco and Italo-disco to dance to in Berlin until noon. Here it costs €10, and there is no door queue. 21+.
Dan Shake
📅 October 10, 23:00–06:00
📍 Switch
💸 Ticket
The London DJ has released music on Mahogani Music, the label of Detroit producer Moodymann. Warm, slightly rough-edged house and disco with soul. A night that reminds you house music was invented for joy.
Nastia
📅 October 9, 23:00–06:00
📍 Switch
💸 Ticket
Ukrainian techno DJ based in Amsterdam and founder of the NECHTO label. Fast, hard techno and electro, with no pauses or breathing room. For anyone who wants to start the weekend at full speed.
Elevate
📅 October 11, 16:00–23:00
📍 Pé n’ Areia, Praia de Esmoriz
💸 Free
Techno and house at a beach club south of Porto. Miss Sheila’s long set starts in daylight, while the sun sets straight into the Atlantic. The last Sunday with a summer feeling, and admission is free. 18+.
See
This weekend is all about exhibitions: Valentino and Vasconcelos at MAAT, the “la Caixa” collection at Gulbenkian, and Fontcuberta at the Water Museum. The stage is weaker, but Porto’s puppet festival and dance in Almada make up for it.
Lisbon and surroundings
“VENUS” — Valentino through the eyes of Joana Vasconcelos
📅 all weekend, until February 22
📍 MAAT, Belém
💸 €12
More than 40 Valentino Garavani haute couture pieces among works by Joana Vasconcelos (Portugal’s best-known contemporary artist, famous for her giant textile sculptures). Hanging from the ceiling is her 18-metre “Valquíria Vénus”. MAAT is marking its tenth anniversary with this exhibition. The most photogenic exhibition of the autumn, followed by a walk along the Belém waterfront.
“Pintar é Fácil. Faça Você Mesmo!”
📅 opening October 10, until February 8
📍 Museu Gulbenkian
💸 €12
The title means “Painting is Easy. Do It Yourself!”, and it is ironic. Around 40 works by 31 artists from the Spanish “la Caixa” foundation’s collection explore how contemporary art argues with the very idea of painting. Artists include Germans Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke, Colombian Doris Salcedo and Portuguese Ana Jotta. The opening is on Saturday, and the museum is open until 21:00, so you can come after dinner.
Joan Fontcuberta — “Wunderkammer”
📅 from October 10, opening at 15:00
📍 Museu da Água, Rua do Alviela 12
💸 Ticket
The Spanish photographer has spent his career making convincing fakes: nonexistent animals with “scientific” descriptions, a Soviet cosmonaut who never existed. Eight series are assembled in a cabinet of curiosities; the exhibition is part of the Imago Lisboa festival. In the age of deepfakes, it feels particularly timely: count how many times you believe what you see.
Joan Fontcuberta. From the Fauna series.
Festa do Cinema Francês — final days
📅 until October 11
📍 Cinema São Jorge, Cinemateca, UCI El Corte Inglés
💸 €3–6
The final screenings of the French film festival. These are new releases that may never make it to Portuguese cinemas. At the Cinemateca, meanwhile, there is a Brigitte Bardot retrospective. Tickets cost €3–6.
IVONA — “T.R.I.P.O.F.O.B.I.A. — The End”
📅 October 10, 21:00
📍 Fórum Municipal Romeu Correia, Almada
💸 Ticket
The Italian company of choreographer Pablo Girolamo at the Quinzena de Dança de Almada festival. Trypophobia is the fear of clusters of small holes, and Girolamo turns it into a dance piece about anxiety and paranoia. There are no words, so language is no obstacle — but the unsettling feeling will stay with you.
International Ocean Film Tour
📅 October 10, 19:00
📍 Museu do Mar Rei D. Carlos, Cascais
💸 Ticket
Five documentaries about the ocean and people whose lives revolve around it — two and a half hours in total. The screening takes place at the maritime museum just steps from the water in Cascais. If you moved to Portugal for the ocean, this is your evening.
Rogier Bak — “Bak to the Future”
📅 October 9 and 10, 19:00
📍 Xafarix Bar, Santos (Republic of Comedy)
💸 €10–15
Dutch comedian with a solo show in English: what it is like to be stuck between the past and the future, billionaires and smart speakers that listen in. A tiny bar, with the front row one metre from the stage — there is nowhere to hide. A good night if you feel like laughing in a language you understand. 18+.
Porto and surroundings
Serralves — Holzer, Gehry, Neel
📅 all weekend
📍 Fundação de Serralves
💸 Ticket
Three major exhibitions at once. Glowing running texts by American artist Jenny Holzer, phrases that hit like graffiti, are on display only until November 1. Frank Gehry, the architect of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and his century. Alice Neel, the New York artist who spent half a century painting neighbours instead of celebrities. Plus Serralves Park, which is especially beautiful in October.
FIMP — performances in English
📅 “Fasten Your Seat Belts!”: October 10, 21:00; October 11, 15:00 and 17:00. “Cargo”: October 9, 19:30; October 10, 16:00 and 19:30
📍 Teatro Campo Alegre and Rivoli
💸 €9
Porto’s international puppet festival brings two adult productions in English, 40 minutes each. A Lithuanian theatre from Klaipėda sends humanity into space, away from earthly problems (12+). Slovenes from Maribor climb into a truck cabin and tell stories about life on the road (16+). If you think puppets are just for children, this evening will change your mind.
Eat/Drink
It is harvest season, so almost everything here is about wine. The most colourful is Bucelas with its Sunday parade; the rest are either fairs or full-day trips.
Lisbon and surroundings
Festa do Vinho e das Vindimas, Bucelas
📅 October 9–11; parade on Sunday, 15:00
📍 Bucelas, Loures
💸 Free
A village harvest festival half an hour from Lisbon. Bucelas calls itself the capital of the white Arinto grape; winemakers pour their wines straight from their stalls, with concerts in the evenings. The highlight is Sunday’s ethnographic parade: 27 floats travel through the streets, showing the entire wine year, from vine to barrel. You will not see this kind of Portugal from central Lisbon.
Ethnographic parade at the Festa do Vinho e das Vindimas in Bucelas.
Festival das Sopas
📅 October 10, soups 19:00–22:00 (zumba from 17:00, forró from 19:30)
📍 Mercado Municipal da Várzea, Sintra
💸 €8, children 3–12 €4
Portuguese people eat soup every day, and here you can try them all in one evening: caldo verde, canja (chicken broth with rice), “stone soup”, peasant soup and spinach and fish soups. Then there is forró dancing right in the market. The cheapest and most local dinner of the weekend.
Porto and surroundings
Vinhos a Descobrir — Harvest Edition
📅 October 10 and 11, from 14:30
📍 Forte de Gaia, Vila Nova de Gaia
💸 €18–20
More than 300 wines from small independent wineries across Portugal, with a tasting glass included in the ticket. A chance to move beyond port and discover what Portuguese people actually drink. You can talk to the people who made the wine and leave with a couple of bottles you will not find in a supermarket.
Porto Coffee Week — Coffee Market
📅 October 9–10, 10:00–17:00
📍 Mercado do Bolhão
💸 Free entry, tasting cup €10
The final days of Porto Coffee Week: 28 roasters and coffee companies at the city’s main market. The €10 festival cup gives you unlimited tastings of espresso, filter coffee, matcha and signature drinks. There are only a limited number of cups, so it is safer to buy online and collect yours at the market. A good way to start the day before walking around Baixa Porto.
Away from the capitals
Adiafa at Torre de Palma
📅 October 10, from 17:30
📍 Torre de Palma Wine Hotel, Monforte (Alentejo)
💸 €65
Adiafa is Alentejo’s end-of-harvest grape festival, and here they celebrate it properly. First comes a tasting of the 2026 harvest must with winemaker Pedro Sanches de Baena, followed by sunset with a glass on top of the old tower. Then there is an open-air barbecue, unlimited wine and music by an ensemble from Arronches. If you have been meaning to visit Alentejo, here is your excuse. Advance tickets only.
Activities
This weekend belongs to runners: a marathon along the ocean on Saturday and a half marathon across a 17-kilometre bridge on Sunday. If you are not running, you can walk through the forest in Sintra.
Lisbon and surroundings
Lisbon Marathon and Half Marathon
📅 October 10, 8:00 — marathon; October 11, 9:20 — half marathon
📍 Marathon starts in Carcavelos, half marathon starts on the Vasco da Gama Bridge; finish at Praça do Comércio
💸 Free for spectators
The marathon runs along the ocean and Tagus from Carcavelos to the city centre. The half marathon starts on the 17-kilometre Vasco da Gama Bridge, where pedestrians normally cannot walk. If you are not running yourself, come cheer at the finish at Praça do Comércio, where the atmosphere is strongest. Leave the car at home: on Saturday the Marginal waterfront will be closed, and on Sunday the coastal roads from Parque das Nações to Baixa.
Lisbon Half Marathon on the Vasco da Gama Bridge. Photo: Lisbon City Council.
Walk through Tapada de Monserrate
📅 October 10, 10:00–13:00
📍 Tapada de Monserrate, Sintra (bus 1253 from Sintra station)
💸 €15
Tapada is the forest behind Monserrate Palace, where tourists who come to Sintra for the palaces rarely venture. Around 4 km of trails with a Russian-speaking guide who will explain what grows around you and how people lived here. Suitable for children aged 6+, insurance included. Registration via @madokspt.
With kids
Lisbon and surroundings
Expopeças — LEGO exhibition
📅 until January 10, daily 10:00–21:00
📍 Cordoaria Nacional, Belém
💸 €12,50 on weekends
More than 120 models made from 15 million pieces in a former 18th-century rope factory. The main exhibit is an 11-metre Boeing 747 made from more than a million bricks, alongside an airliner, dragon, Spinosaurus, Eiffel Tower and Big Ben. At the end there is a play area where kids can build themselves — and they will not want to leave. Children under 95 cm enter free.
ZAF — Zona Artística Familiar
📅 October 11, sessions at 10:00 and 14:30
📍 CAM Gulbenkian
💸 Free
An open printmaking workshop for children aged 5+ and their parents: stamps, rollers and paint. Your child goes home with their own print, and you go home with paint-covered hands. No registration needed; drop in after a walk through the Gulbenkian gardens.
Animalândia
📅 October 10 and 11, 16:30
📍 LU.CA — Teatro Luís de Camões, Belém
💸 €3
Six short animated films about animals for children aged 3+, 45 minutes. Two films have no dialogue, while the others are dubbed into Portuguese. A first cinema experience in a real theatre for three euros, at a theatre made for children.
Porto and surroundings
Viva, Vivaldi!
📅 October 11, 16:00
📍 Casa da Música, Sala 2
💸 €13,50 adult, €0,50 child
Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” as a story for the youngest listeners, from three months to six years old. The composer and his friends travel through the year: birds sing, then a sudden storm arrives. Live musicians perform right beside the audience, and a child’s ticket costs 50 cents. The morning sessions are sold out; the afternoon one remains.
Viva, Vivaldi! at Casa da Música, Porto. Photo: Casa da Música.
FIMP — “Eu quero a Lua!” and Fimpalitos
📅 October 10: workshop 10:00–13:00, performance at 16:00
📍 Fimpalitos — Teatro Carlos Alberto; performance — Teatro Campo Alegre
💸 €2,50
A full day of the puppet festival. In the morning, at the free Fimpalitos workshop, children aged 6+ make puppets from old stage sets; registration is via fimp.pt. In the afternoon, a puppet show for children aged 3+ about a girl named Alice who wants to reach the Moon. The show is in Portuguese, but the puppets tell the story, so everything will be easy to understand.
Ride for Kids
📅 October 10, 10:00–18:00
📍 Pavilhão da EB 2/3 do Viso, Porto
💸 Registration
Eight hours nonstop on 50 stationary bikes with 15 instructors. Part of the money raised will go to Casa Ronald McDonald, a foundation that houses families near hospitals where their children are being treated. You can ride as a family or put together a team of up to 25 people. A good way to show a child that sport can help other people. Registration is available via the organizers’ Instagram or by email at rideforkidscasaronaldmcdonald@gmail.com.
What else is interesting
The main event in Lisbon this weekend is Obama at MEO Arena, but four hours of a forum for €90 is a lot to pay for the chance to see him in person. The free events look more interesting: fashion week spills onto Rua Augusta, while circus workshops at Barcarena stay open until 2 a.m.
Lisbon and surroundings
Barack Obama at Game Changers Forum
📅 October 10, 15:00
📍 MEO Arena, Parque das Nações
💸 €40–90
The former US president is the headline guest at a forum about leadership. He will speak on stage about how resilience and human connections can change society. The forum lasts four and a half hours; besides Obama, 24 speakers will appear, mostly Portuguese top executives. They include Altice Portugal (MEO) CEO Ana Figueiredo, EDP CEO Miguel Stilwell and Sporting president Frederico Varandas. Go for Obama: having a former US president in the same room as you is a rare opportunity. 16+.
ModaLisboa
📅 until October 11
📍 Pátio da Galé, MUDE, SNBA, Moldo Studios
💸 Free programme
The 67th Lisbon Fashion Week. The shows are invitation-only, but there is plenty happening around them that is open to the public. On Saturday, Carlos Gil’s show spills out of the Design Museum (MUDE) onto Rua Augusta, with some places open to the public by registration. At the National Society of Fine Arts (SNBA), there is an exhibition of nine photographers who have covered ModaLisboa since 1991. Moldo Studios has a pop-up of Portuguese designers with pieces you will not find in chain stores.
ModaLisboa runway show.
“Benfica” — “Vitória” Guimarães
📅 October 11, 18:00
📍 Estádio da Luz
💸 Ticket
The only match involving one of Lisbon’s “Big Three” this weekend. Before the game, a live eagle — the club’s symbol — flies over the stadium, while 65,000 people sing the anthem. If you have never been to Portuguese football, this is a good place to start.
Open Day at Nirvana Studios
📅 October 10, 16:00–02:00
📍 Nirvana Studios, Estrada Militar de Valejas 66, Barcarena
💸 Free
Alternative workshops outside Lisbon open their doors to everyone once a year, now for the 23rd time. Acrobats, music and performances run until 2 a.m. It all started as a birthday party for the Custom Circus troupe. A side of Lisbon you will not find in guidebooks.
Feira na Avenida
📅 October 10, 10:00–19:00
📍 Avenida da Liberdade
💸 Free
A monthly market on the city’s main boulevard: antiques, vintage, crafts and old books. You can leave with an old azulejo, a 1960s coffee pot or a postcard showing Lisbon half a century ago. A good alternative to souvenir shops.
Porto and surroundings
Iberanime
📅 October 10–11
📍 Exponor, Matosinhos
💸 €25, children €18
A Japanese pop-culture festival: anime, cosplay, video games and concerts. The main guest is Japanese vocalist Masatoshi Ono from power metal band GALNERYUS, who sang the opening theme for “Hunter × Hunter”. Teenagers will love it; parents will be surprised by the number of costumes.
Away from the capitals
FOLIO — Jon Fosse in Óbidos
📅 October 10, 21:00; October 11, 15:00
📍 Tenda Vila Literária and Livraria do Mercado, Óbidos
💸 Ticket
The Norwegian writer and playwright, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize. He rarely appears in public, but in Óbidos he will speak twice over the weekend. On Saturday, Fosse talks about the ineffable with critic José Mário Silva; on Sunday, journalist Ricardo Duarte interviews him about his life. Medieval Óbidos, with bookshops at every turn, is a better setting for such a meeting than any hall. In Portuguese, Fosse’s “Septology”, “Morning and Evening”, “Trilogy” and “The Boathouse” have been published.
Al Mossassa, Marvão
📅 October 9–11 (rescheduled from last weekend due to the weather)
📍 Marvão, Alentejo
💸 €2, children under 12 free
A festival of three cultures — Islamic, Jewish and Christian — in a fortress perched on a hill near the Spanish border. It is dedicated to Ibn Marwan, who founded Marvão in the 9th century. Market, music, fire shows, falconry, plus the performance “Marvão, Where History Touches the Sky” at 21:30 on Friday and Saturday. This year the festival is part of the programme marking 800 years of the town charter. The drive from Lisbon takes around three hours, but the view from the walls of Marvão is worth it.
