FROM LISBON TO PORTO: 10 REASONS TO GO

DE LISBOA AO PORTO: 10 RAZÕES PARA IR AVENIDA DOS ALIADOS | PALÁCIO DA BOLSA Just a train ride away from Lisbon, Portugal’s second city is now being discovered as a wonderful destination filled with surprising cultural treasures from the past and present. New grand hotels such as The Yeatman and InterContinental Palácio das Cardosas, [...]

GRAPE ESCAPES: 10 GREAT WINE HOTELS IN PORTUGAL

10 GRANDES HOTÉIS VÍNICOS EM PORTUGAL Portugal is Europe’s fourth-largest wine producer, offering some of the finest and most unique wines in the world. It’s been exporting wine since Roman times and the Douro Valley was the world’s first demarcated wine region, now protected under World Heritage status by UNESCO. Most of the country’s wine [...]

LISBON’S 10 MOST BEAUTIFUL PALACES

OS 10 MAIS BELOS PALÁCIOS DE LISBOA Numerous royal palaces and noble mansions were built in Lisbon and in its surroundings over the centuries. The king’s official residence was once the Castle of St. George, but later moved to Ribeira Palace which was destroyed in the 1755 earthquake. The royal residences after that were built [...]

THE 20 MOST BEAUTIFUL CASTLES IN PORTUGAL

OS 20 MAIS BELOS CASTELOS DE PORTUGAL Originally this list was going to have only ten, but in a country with hundreds of fortifications, that was impossible. So here’s a selection of the 20 most impressive castles or fortresses around Portugal, many built over a millennium ago by the Moors, others between the 12th and [...]

IS CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING A REALITY OR A HOAX? IN LISBON IT DOESN’T MATTER

How Portugal Has Become a World Leader in Renewable Energy Parking spot and charging station for electric cars in Lisbon, Portugal The global warming or climate change debate continues, but many now see it as irrelevant. Because either caused by man or part of a natural cycle, the climatic change should only serve as a [...]