Entry charge not deterring castle visitors
Updated: 16-Dec-2004
Lisbon residents, children and OAPs are exempt from paying the three euro entry charge and students and families are offered a 50 per cent discount.
Olispónia, one of the audio-visual educational areas within the castle, received “five times as many visitors as usual”. According to EGEAC, which has gauged numbers according to the requests for headphones, have recorded that the week before the charge was made, “nine Portuguese and 148 overseas visitors came to Olispónia, meanwhile, but between December 2 and 9, 33 Portuguese and 773 foreign tourists visited the facility.”
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