São Vicente (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɐ̃w viˈsẽtɨ]) is a freguesia (civil parish) and district of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.

Located in the historic center of Lisbon, São Vicente is to the east of Santa Maria Maior, south of Arroios, and west of Penha de França.

This was largely due to the city's eastward expansion driven by population growth, leading to the establishment of numerous estates and manor palaces.

[5][6]The resident population recorded according to Censuses carried over the years is shown in the following tables for the three parishes that today constitute São Vicente.

The significant decrease recorded after 1960 was mostly due to emigration towards newly urbanized areas providing better services such as sanitation and access to healthcare, both within Lisbon municipality (Carnide, Benfica, Alvalade) and outside the city's boundaries (Loures, Amadora, Odivelas).

In the 1980s and 1990s, due to good economic performance of the country, many inhabitants, mostly from lower social classes, enhanced their opportunities and thus moved out of the neighbourhood being the overwhelming majority of the houses old, humid and lacking modern facilities.

The process meant that many buildings were abandoned and a drug market emerged, especially in neighbourhing Alfama, leading even more people to move out of the neighbourhood.

Due to high building costs and the relative isolation of many streets, typically steep and narrow, few locals chose to relocate to the neighbourhood, that by the early 2000s was inhabited mostly by elders.