O QUE É PORTUGAL? – 10 PALAVRAS QUE DEFINEM UM PAÍS INDEFINÍVEL MONSARAZ | CASTELO DE VILA VIÇOSA RESILIENCE The country with the oldest borders in Europe, the first to adopt its local tongue as its official language, has against the odds survived nine centuries of battles, wars, earthquakes, revolutions, the creation and loss of [...]

DE LISBOA A COIMBRA: 10 RAZÕES PARA IR It lacks the contemporary attractions of Lisbon and Porto, but the city of Coimbra is rich in old monuments illustrating every chapter of the history of architecture, from romanesque to gothic, to manueline and baroque. It’s easily accessible by train between the country’s two largest cities, and [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]