Cartão Dourado
Published 8 November 2026, 22:44
Cartão Dourado — 50% off train tickets for pensioners
Not a travel pass but a discount on single CP tickets: half price across the whole network — Intercidades, regional, interregional and urban trains in Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra. It is available to pension recipients of any age whose household's monthly income is no higher than the minimum wage.
Where you come across it. Occasional train trips in retirement, when a monthly pass is not needed.
The discount is loaded onto the Cartão CP and applied for at the ticket office with proof of household composition and income. On the Alfa Pendular and Intercidades the discount is "up to 50%": the price is rounded up to the nearest half euro.
Official website: cp.pt/info/w/cartao-dourado