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The Blue Line (Portuguese: Linha Azul) or Seagull Line (Portuguese: Linha da Gaivota) is one of the four lines of Lisbon Metro. It is the only line of the Lisbon Metro entirely underground, without any viaduct.

Stations

Blue Line
Legend
Reboleira Amadora Este Alfornelos Pontinha Carnide Colégio Militar/Luz Alto dos Moinhos Laranjeiras Jardim Zoológico Praça de Espanha São Sebastião  Red  Parque Marquês de Pombal  Yellow  Avenida Restauradores Baixa-Chiado  Green  Terreiro do Paço Santa Apolónia

Code	Station name	Distance (km)		Transfers	Location
		Inter- station	Total
SP	Santa Apolónia	—	0.0	Azambuja Line (Santa Apolónia)	São Vicente	Lisbon
TP	Terreiro do Paço	1.1	1.1	Soflusa	Santa Maria Maior
BC	Baixa-Chiado	0.9	2.0	Green Line
RE	Restauradores	0.7	2.7	Sintra Line (Rossio)
AV	Avenida	0.5	3.2		Santo António
MP	Marquês de Pombal	0.6	3.8	Yellow Line Rotunda bus terminal
PA	Parque	0.6	4.4		Avenidas Novas
SS	São Sebastião	0.7	5.1	Red Line
PE	Praça de Espanha	0.7	5.8		Campolide
JZ	Jardim Zoológico	0.8	6.6	Azambuja Line/Sintra Line/Fertagus (Sete Rios) Sete Rios bus terminal	São Domingos de Benfica
LA	Laranjeiras	1.1	7.7
AH	Alto dos Moinhos	0.6	8.3
CM	Colégio Militar/Luz	0.8	9.1	Luz bus terminal	Carnide
CA	Carnide	0.9	10.0
PO	Pontinha	0.7	10.7	Pontinha bus terminal
AF	Alfornelos	0.9	11.6		Amadora
AS	Amadora Este	1.2	12.8	Amadora bus terminal
RB	Reboleira	0.9	13.7	Sintra Line (Reboleira) Reboleira bus terminal

Frequency

Chronology

• 29 December 1959: Opening of the original Lisbon Metro network with a Y shape. Common branch stations: Restauradores, Avenida, Rotunda (former name of the Marquês de Pombal station and where the line would split into the two branches). Current Blue Line branch stations (coming from Rotunda station): Parque, São Sebastião, Palhavã (former name of the Praça de Espanha station) and Sete Rios (former name of the Jardim Zoológico station). Current Yellow Line branch stations (coming from Rotunda station): Picoas, Saldanha, Campo Pequeno and Entre Campos.
• 27 January 1963: Opening of the Rossio station. Main branch route: Restauradores - Rossio.
• 28 September 1966: Opening of the Socorro (former name of the Martim Moniz station), Intendente and Anjos stations. Main branch route: Restauradores - Anjos.
• 18 June 1972: Opening of the Arroios, Alameda, Areeiro, Roma and Alvalade stations. Main branch route: Restauradores - Alvalade.
• 15 October 1988: Opening of the Cidade Universitária, Laranjeiras, Alto dos Moinhos and Colégio Militar/Luz stations. Current Blue Line branch route: Rotunda - Colégio Militar/Luz. Current Yellow Line branch route: Rotunda - Cidade Universitária.
• 3 April 1993: Opening of the Campo Grande station. Main branch route: Restauradores - Campo Grande. Current Yellow Line branch route: Rotunda - Campo Grande.
• 15 July 1995: Creation of the Blue and Yellow lines by building a second Rotunda station. New Blue line route: Colégio Militar/Luz - Campo Grande.
• 18 October 1997: Opening of the Carnide and Pontinha stations. Line route: Pontinha - Campo Grande.
• 1 March 1998: Palhavã station is renamed to Marquês de Pombal, Sete Rios station is renamed to Jardim Zoológico and Socorro station is renamed to Martim Moniz.
• 3 March 1998: Creation of the Blue and Green line by closing the Restauradores - Rossio tunnel. New Blue line route: Pontinha - Restauradores.
• 8 August 1998: Opening of the Baixa-Chiado station. Line route: Pontinha - Baixa-Chiado.
• 15 May 2004: Opening of the Alfornelos and Amadora Este stations. Line route: Amadora Este - Baixa-Chiado.
• 19 December 2007: Opening of the Terreiro do Paço and Santa Apolónia stations. Line route: Amadora Este - Santa Apolónia.
• 13 April 2016: Opening of the Reboleira station. Line route: Reboleira - Santa Apolónia.^[2]

See also

• List of Lisbon metro stations

References

External links

Media related to Linha Azul (Lisboa) at Wikimedia Commons