Sit­u­at­ed on one of the islands in the Azores arch­i­pel­ago, this was an oblig­a­tory port of call from the 15th cen­tu­ry u…

This muse­um-city, whose roots go back to Roman times, reached its gold­en age in the 15th cen­tu­ry, when it became the …

The Monastery of the Domini­cans of Batal­ha was built to com­mem­o­rate the vic­to­ry of the Por­tuguese over the Castil­ians…

Wine has been pro­duced by tra­di­tion­al land­hold­ers in the Alto Douro region for some 2,000 years. Since the 18th cen­tu…

The city of Opor­to, built along the hill­sides over­look­ing the mouth of the Douro riv­er, is an out­stand­ing urban lands…

The his­toric town of Guimaraes is asso­ci­at­ed with the emer­gence of the Por­tuguese nation­al iden­ti­ty in the 12th cen­tu…

In the 19th cen­tu­ry Sin­tra became the first cen­tre of Euro­pean Roman­tic archi­tec­ture. Fer­di­nand II turned a ruined mo…

The Nation­al Palace of Pena stands out as the renowned jew­el in the crown of the Sin­tra Hills. The sur­round­ing park, …

Found­ed in 1870 by Manoel Pedro Guedes, Quin­ta da Avele­da has traces back even fur­ther. Indeed, the name is said to c…

In 1974, the year of Portugal’s Car­na­tion Rev­o­lu­tion, João António Cerdeira and his wife Palmi­ra became the first peo…

The trape­zoid infin­i­ty pool of Quin­ta do Cras­to is cut high up into the Douro hill­side, over­look­ing the riv­er. Design…

Remark­ably enough, a light has warned approach­ing ships about the treach­er­ous waters of Cape Espichel ever since 1430…

This 27- deep well is a majes­tic site that peo­ple dubbed to be an invert­ed tow­er. Locat­ed in an estate in Sin­tra, Por…

Anoth­er vol­canic island, anoth­er dra­mat­ic set of nat­ur­al pools formed from nat­ur­al lava. In fact, the town of Por­to M…

Perched on gran­ite cliffs near the Por­tuguese roy­al retreat of Sin­tra, the vil­lage of Azen­has do Mar is the site of a…

Not just a stun­ning spot for a dip, Pisci­na das Marés (in Leça da Palmeira, on the out­skirts of Por­to) is also an arc…

Built in the ear­ly twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry on the site of an aban­doned con­vent – of which only the ghost of a nun sup­pos­edl…

A zoo­log­i­cal gar­den, Lis­bon Zoo has around 2,000 and 300 species includ­ing 114 mam­mals, 157 birds, 56 rep­tiles, and f…

Height: 915 meters, Type: Stra­to­vol­cano, Sta­tus: Radio­car­bon

A glass muse­um run by the Nation­al Cam­bridge Col­lec­tors.

Area: 1,42 sq. km., vol­ume: 65 cubic meters, depth avg: 45,700001 m, shore length: 14,75 m, res time: 44,200001, elev…

Height: 715 meters, Type: Stra­to­vol­cano, Sta­tus: Holocene