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Views of Lisbon Lisbon
80 Reviews If you plan to visit the castle (Castelo de Sao Jorge) that sits high on the hill overlooking downtown Lisbon, then you will take a bus or tram, or you might even opt for a nice hike up the hill, that...
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Porto is the city of the famous Porto Wine Porto
5 Reviews Port wine is a product of the long, but sometimes uneasy, relationship between Portugal and England. In the XVIII century, wars between England and France often cut the supplies of wine to England....
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Palácio Nacional de Sintra - National Palace of Sintra Sintra
9 Reviews Built by King Manuel BLAZONS HALL or Sala dos Brasos, has magnificent wooden coffered domed ceilings. This room was by far the most splendid and one of my favourites. Tiles were specially made for the...
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Street scenes Évora
23 Reviews In the old jewish district of the town. This street has at leat 2 restaurants, pizza take away, handicraft shop from India and Morocco. This street goes all the way up to the main square Praça do...
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Lisbon neighborhoods and atmosphere Lisbon
67 Reviews Lisbon's oldest quarter is the steep Alfama district which almost wasn't damaged during the 1755 earthquake. It is still home to some Roman and Arab remains. The Alfama district consists of an...
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Life in the street Porto
6 Reviews And here's yet another one of those Port wine advertisements. There are way too many wine caves to visit, but if you're feeling especially energetic you can visit them all. I only saw 3. They all...
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historic town center Sintra
17 Reviews Green - that's the word that better describes Sintra. The steep hills topped with castles and palaces are all covered by a marvelous carpet of gardens and woods, filling the spaces among the classical...
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Cathedral Évora
10 Reviews Just a few extra views and thoughts on Evora's Se. In the first photo you can see Zohara pointing upwards at a doorway in the middle of a wall, yes a doorway. Doorway to where, well your guess is as...
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Day trips: Sintra, Cascais, Estoril, Obidos... Lisbon
30 Reviews If you wish to explore around Lisboa, check it out a website called www.rentalocalfriend.com This is an alternative service where locals make themselves available to show visitors their favourite...
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Palácio da Pena - Pena Palace Sintra
10 Reviews Yes, arrive as early as possible, even 15-20 minutes BEFORE they open the gates. You get in first and can find empty spaces without tourists.... You can also find PARKING...which if you arrive later...
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Churches Évora
12 Reviews The most notable feature on the façade is the porch with its arches built in different styles, both pointed and horseshoe, a typical example of the “marriage” between the Gothic and Moorish styles...
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Getting around Lisbon
42 Reviews Little things about Lisbon It lies between the Palace Square and the Rossio. By the XII century an estuary of the Tejo, after a "pool" where the rubble was deposited and an irregular urbanization was...
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Castelo dos Mouros - Moorish Castle Sintra
3 Reviews The "jungle" that has grown up around and even INSIDE Castelo dos Mouros, can at times be amazing, take these photos for instance. We are standing below, beside, on or even inside walls of stone,...
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General Information Évora
8 Reviews The Local Tourist Office is located at: Praça do Giraldo 73 - 7000-508 Évora Tel: +351-26-6702671 Business hours: Summer: 9AM - 7 PM Winter: 9AM - 6PM USEFUL LINKS: Evora council
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Architecture, monuments, and structures Lisbon
80 Reviews Take a walk, hike, or ride up to the Castelo de Sao Jorge in the Alfama district of Lisbon, it gives you a beautiful panoramic view over the Tagus River and the Alfama, Baxia and the Bairro Alto...
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tourist info centers Sintra
5 Reviews When I arrived in Sintra, I took the bus uphill from the train station and it stopped at the Tourist Information Office, just along from the Sintra National Palace. It's a great place to get...
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Convents Évora
5 Reviews While visiting the Temple to Diana we passed by the Convento dos Loios and decided to visit there also. As you can see it has a nice decorative entrance arch with some statuary and inscriptions,...
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Eat, drink, and be merry Lisbon
27 Reviews It is a Portuguese egg tart pastry. They are common in Portugal , Brazil, Angola, Mozambique,Macao....It is belived that pasttry was credted before 18th century by catholic nuns at the Jeronimos...
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Water Aqueducts Évora
5 Reviews Due to the lack of water inside the old town city walls, D. Joao III, in the XVI century, order to build the aqueduct. It's 18km (59055 feet) long spreding it's monumental apearence all over town....
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Museums, parks, and culture Lisbon
52 Reviews Make sure to visit this place while you are in Lisbon. Surrounding area has several good restaurants so this may be one whole day or half day well planed in Lisbon. Something to remember Portugal by...
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Portas de Moura Square Évora
3 Reviews Just outside the old city of Evora is the Largo da Porta de Moura. In the center is the marble fountain you can see here. We found it a nice cool place to sit on the marble sides, dip our hands in the...
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Belém sightseeing Lisbon
32 Reviews If you're staying in Lisbon over the weekend, make sure you visit Belem on a Sunday as all of the attractions are free to enter between 10am and 2pm. I found it a bit of a struggle to visit all of...
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Gardens Évora
8 Reviews I traveled to Évora on one of the hottest days of the year, mid-August, when temperatures rose in the Alentejo over 110 degrees F. I was shocked to see that even amidst the dry, desert climate,...
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Churches and monasteries Lisbon
16 Reviews UNESCO has classified it a World Heritage monument and you can soon see why, or maybe Antonio can explain it to you as he did for us. Aside from the historical importance, this is a beautiful building...
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Praça do Giraldo Main Square Évora
5 Reviews Praca do Giraldo. With a public arcade on one side, this square acts as a kind of city forum, enlivened by its welcoming and friendly pavement cafés and with a beautiful sixteenth-century marble...
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The square of Praca do Comercio and the statu of Jose I in the middle is another big beaten path, and I mean in the centre of it, as in the perifery you have all kinds of trasnports: cars, buses and trams!
There are plenty of good museums in Lisbon, but my favorite was the one inside the ex-church of Carmo, lots of beautiful things to see, windows, sclptures, treasures and paints, and graves, and many many other beautiful things!
We had planned our trip from Canada by reading the tips of various VT members (especially 'Canadienne' and 'Micas_pt') in combination with a few tourist leaflets that we had received from Portugal's tourism ministry. Using that information, I planned a rough trip itinerary in my mind and then began making phone calls to accommodations at the various locations where I thought we would be staying the night. I pre-booked most of the places because I was not sure how strong the demand would be in late-May, just before the Euro 2004 football championships kicked off in host-country Portugal.I received good advice to spend some time in Lisbon, there definitely was lots to see both there and in it's immediate surroundings. We barely scratched it's surface in four nights! In the end our trip and my 'Pages' went like this:'Lisbon' 3 nights during which we took in the nearby 'Sintra' and 'Belem'...
It did not take us long to find out why Lisbon is called the 'City of the Seven Hills'!! As soon as we had arrived in the country and checked our bags into the hotel, we ventured out on foot for a little exploration of the downtown core of the city. We soon discovered that whether you want to visit the Alfama district on the hillside or just return to the hotel from the main tourist areas, there was always a climb involved.This was repeated in many of the great places that we visited - climbing the mountains of Sintra to it's Moorish Castle, up and down the 686 double-staircase of the shrine in Lamego and also visiting the amazing old fort from the cliffs of Ilha da Berlenga. Of course I won't even mention the numerous mountaintop castles where you have to park your car outside the gates and hoof it from there! Altogether, it was great to do it on foot and see things up-close. However,...
We bought (E10 or US$12) this now battered road map at a tourist information shop in Sintra, during our first full day in Portugal - even though we were not picking up our rental car for another two days. If you plan to be driving off the main highways at all, you had better have a detailed map of the road system so you can have a fighting chance of figuring out either where you are or how best to get to your next destination!This was a huge two-sided fold-out map, with the photo only showing the southern Portugal side. Inside our small car, we had to fold it every whichway to keep it down to a size that we could manage! We found that the map was great for pointing out the smaller country roads as well as some of the tourist highlights. One surprising thing was that there seems to be so much European Union-sponsored road building taking place in Portugal that we on a few occasions...
About 2 months before we left Canada for Portugal, I bought a DK Eyewitness Travel Guide book (for about US$30) in order to get some background information on this new (to me) country. After looking at Fodors and Lonely Planet as well, I picked DK because it is totally loaded with colour photographs, maps and helpful hints. It really made a huge difference to us to be able to see the various attractions and read the detailed descriptions of each one.The book even has various suggested tour routes with all the relevent details, such as the Serra de Sintra drive or even one near Evora to see ancient cromlechs! For Lisbon, it also provided us with detailed street maps of the different sections of the city as well as another entire chapter on the delights in the area immediately surrounding Lisbon. There are sections describing the time-line of Portugal's history, it's various rulers down...
I will take a last look before I go to the railstation to say goodbye to Belem magnificant symbol of the tower, with all this green space, I felt pleasure and relaxed with the beauty, and said goodbye to Belem!
The tower of Belem is a wonderful place, like a lighthouse in the middle of the land, to light up the way for Sailors, but it used to be one day the fortifiction shield to protect the famous city from the ocean side.
Praca Marques de Pombal but known as the *Rotunda* which means the circle, and I say that, not because I know Portuguess, but in Latin I studied in human Anatomy of the head *Foramen Rotundom* which means the circled whole!well it is a nice place anyway ;-D The picture shows Pedro v square, downtown Lisbon ;-D
Now I can say good bye to Lisboa, with a full wish to revisit again, it is such a wonderful place, lovely gentle and very welcoming people, who always try to help you with anything you ask for!Lisbon is a great city and a place that every real traveller must visit!
Lapa Palace Lisbon
4 Reviews and 206 Opinions Great weekend. Best hotel in Lisbon for gardens and outside pool 5* and so not cheap. Excellent...
Sheraton Porto Hotel & Spa Porto
2 Reviews and 303 Opinions I have no words to explain how much I liked the place. I paid 50 euros for a double room and What a...
Hotel Calheta Beach Madeira Island
1 Review and 219 Opinions Calheta has a marvelous marina and have the only beach of yellow sand. It´s situated in the West...
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