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Lisbon invests 67 M€ in the restoration of 13 national monuments

The conservation and restoration of the Belém Tower and the refurbishment of the National Archaeology Museum (MNA) are two of the works already underway, carried out by the municipality through the Lisbon Tourism Association, with funding from the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR).

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Twenty-five years after a "comprehensive conservation and restoration intervention", the Belém Tower is currently undergoing in-depth conservation and restoration work on its interiors and exteriors, as well as updating all the energy, fire detection and security infrastructures on the five floors of the tower and three of the bastion.

Built between 1514 and 1520 and classified as a World Heritage Site since 1983, the Tower is one of the most visited monuments in Portugal.

Nearby, the MNA, founded in 1893, is already in Phase 1 of the requalification and refurbishment, which includes the museum structure itself, with the demolition of the floor 2 slab for later structural reinforcement, with a view to increasing the floor's load capacity.

During a visit this morning to the works in progress, Carlos Moedas stressed the importance of the 67 million euro investment guaranteed by the municipality, for "intervention in 13 facilities in the municipality of Lisbon". The works, he stressed, "are absolutely essential for the future of the country".