Sit­u­at­ed on one of the islands in the Azores arch­i­pel­ago, this was an oblig­a­tory port of call fro…

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

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

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

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

The his­toric town of Guimaraes is asso­ci­at­ed with the emer­gence of the Por­tuguese nation­al iden­ti…

In the 19th cen­tu­ry Sin­tra became the first cen­tre of Euro­pean Roman­tic archi­tec­ture. Fer­di­nand I…

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

Stand­ing at the entrance to Lis­bon har­bour, the Monastery of the Hieronymites &ndash, con­struc­tio…

Orig­i­nal­ly designed as a mon­u­ment sym­bol­iz­ing the Recon­quest, the Con­vent of the Knights Tem­plar …

The Monastery of San­ta Maria d‘Alcoba&ccedil,a, north of Lis­bon, was found­ed in the 12th cent…

The Lau­risil­va of Madeira is an out­stand­ing relict of a pre­vi­ous­ly wide­spread lau­rel for­est type.…

The 987-ha site on the vol­canic island of Pico, the sec­ond largest in the Azores arch­i­pel­ago, con…

The site, exten­sive­ly for­ti­fied from the 17th to 19th cen­turies, rep­re­sents the largest bul­warked…

Locat­ed 30 km north­west of Lis­bon, the prop­er­ty was con­ceived by King Joao V in 1711 as a tan­gi­bl…

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The trape­zoid infin­i­ty pool of Quin­ta do Cras­to is cut high up into the Douro hill­side, over­loo­ki…

Remark­ably enough, a light has warned approach­ing ships about the treach­er­ous waters of Cape Espi…

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

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

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