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Food and drink Lisbon
49 Reviews If you're one that loves sweets and a dessert especially after a meal, this one is for you. However, that is if you love the tropical fruit mango since this particular dessert, and very much a...
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local architecture Sintra
6 Reviews While the climate is described as Mediterranean, the low cloud descends the mountain, there is quite an eerie feel when walking the narrow streets and lanes. The rainy times are in autumn and spring...
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Events&Street Activities Évora
14 Reviews 5th June 2003 on the Largo Luis de Camoes. From June the 3rd to the 8th it took place in Evora the BIME-Bienal International Marioneta of Evora. Only puppet show and related arts. Puppet manipulators:...
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Festivals Lisbon
13 Reviews carnival is a festive grand celebration wherever, Lisboa is no exception. If you happenned to be there, its grand. yes busy even crowded but fun all around, recommended, see the official site in...
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Fado music Sintra
1 Review Fado first appeared in Portugal at the end of the eighteenth century, as a nostalgic form of song favoured by sailors. Its name derives from the Latin word fatum, meaning 'fate' or 'destiny', being...
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Main Square Activities -Praça do Girlado Évora
7 Reviews ok, now I know this looks like in a movie. but every now and then the National Portuguese bank here in Evora needs to fill in with cash. So here's all the action you can actually see on the street in...
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Useful information about Lisbon Lisbon
12 Reviews Azulejos are colourful ceramic tiles which are very popular in Portugal for decoration puposes. You find them inside and outside of houses, public buildings, monuments or metro stations. They often...
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piriquitas Sintra
1 Review like many others portuguese locations Sintra has it's own and tipical pastry. at breakfast or in the afternoon on yur lunch time break yu should have to try - queijadinhas de sintra - or -...
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Street scenes Évora
3 Reviews Don't be alarmed if you are stepping out from a restaurant or bar onto one of Evora's small, cobblestoned streets and suddenly you are confronted by a group of black-caped individuals. No, they are...
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Social interactions Lisbon
26 Reviews Yes, we were amazed at this public pissor on the main access street to the Castelo de Sao Jorge. As we walked up the street we noticed a head sticking up above a metal panel on the side of the...
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fountains Sintra
3 Reviews I decided to walk up the steep hill to the Moorish Castle and walked past the Sabuga Fountain and noticed a couple of people filling up large water bottles and placing them in a van. I’m sure it was...
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People Évora
4 Reviews After a long day's drive north from the southern Algarve coast, followed by a hot afternoon walking the busy streets of Evora, my wife and I were enjoying a relaxing sitdown in our cool ground floor...
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Fado music Lisbon
9 Reviews I was not familiar with Fado music outside of what I read in a travel guide, until I arrived in Lisbon. Fado is a beautiful and emotional musical art form based in Portugal. Usually there are guitar...
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Fair of São Pedro Sintra
1 Review This Market dates back to the time of the Christian Reconquest. In the time of Dona Maria I it was subjected to municipal regulations and is the most characteristic event of the kind in the Borough of...
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Street and house decoration Évora
2 Reviews It was a surprise for me to see these wonderful tiles, that are used in order to indicate the streets-names. You will find them mostly in the old part of Evora, within the medieval...
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Coffee and cafes Lisbon
6 Reviews The Portuguese have a real sweet tooth so you will find some of the best pastries and cakes in all the little cafes. The 'national pastry' is considered to be pasteis de nata, which is a delicious...
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Art-General Évora
5 Reviews Near Évora there is a small town called Estremoz. Estremoz is famous nationwide and also in other countries due to its white marble – it is called the “white gold of Estremoz”. I’ve read that...
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The chapels up on the hills above the villages generally attract the most archaic festivals. According to the belief that dates back to the Middle ages, these chapels protected the people, their cattle and their crops. They were fundamental in the processions that produced rogations and appeals that medieval and modern Christianity so readily absorbed.
Portuguese beer was a pleasant surprise - definitely the best beer that we have had in Southern Europe. Sagres and SuperBock are the two primary brands. Each comes in three varieties - light, medium, and dark. Our favorites were the mediums brewed by each company. SuperBock's medium beer is named SuperBock Abadia.
We spent a great day with the locals in Quarteira when one of there festivals was taking place, local people very friendly and glad to see us joining in th fun, I believe these are held on a regular basis, in various towns in the algarve. Plus cheap local food and drinks
One of the dining customs that we had not experienced before dealt with small tidbits placed on your table to tide you over while awaiting the serious eating. These usually consisted of a plate of black olives, some buns and a few rounds of different kinds of cheese. Even though you had not ordered these items, the custom is that, if you partake of them while sipping your drinks as you wait for the arrival of the main courses, a small fee will be added to your bill depending on which of the items you decided to enjoy. It usually was only a nominal fee of a few Euros, well worth it for the option to snack or not depending on how hungry you were at the time!This scene is of a typical breakfast set-up at a Residencial in Peniche, where we had spent the night after our 'Ilha da Berlenga' adventures!
One of my favorite things about Portugal is how well preserved its small medieval villages are. The most famous is Obidos (seen on this picture), but two other favorites of mine are Marvão and Monsaraz in the Alentejo province. All the houses are immaculately painted and everything is very well preserved. The best thing about them is that in Monsaraz and Marvão especially (not so much the case in Obidos) is that tourism has not overrun the place, and you really do feel like you've stepped back in time.
Who doesn't know the famous Porto wine?There is red and back both are divine.On 14 December 2001 UNESCO inscribed the Alto Douro Wine Region on the World Heritage List, in the cultural landscape category. This status was the result of a submission process led by Fundação Rei Afonso Henriques.
All my VT frineds who reads my European pages, know I adore the Gothic old European style in churches and Cathedrals and monuments, some times in fortresses as well!Well this absession continues and I hunt after it in Lisbon beautiful churches ;-DI took this picture of the typical formar Portugues soldier, in the Golden age of discovering new lands of Portugal!
Once you are there please don't miss:The Monastery of Jeronimos with the views of the Cloister, the interior section, The multi-ribbed Gothic vaulting of the interior, and the tomb of Luis de Comoes and tomb of Vasco da Gama!
I don't know if its because the footaball team or for another reason, but the Portugal flag is beautiful, with its major red and green colors, and it is a pateritism decoration in many streets and houses of Lisbon!
The cock is the symbol of Portugal, well in France too their symbol os the cock as well, but the Portugal cock is much beautiful and decorated, you can have lots of souvenires like ceramical bells with the lovely cock, and I remember that moument well when I was taking the photo, the witty woman of the shop told me in English: 5 Euro's LOLI was witty and said immediatly: Oh that's too much for a photo LOLand we both smiled and I went on...!
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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Q: hi guys, was jus postin this for sum help n sum advice, wats the night life like in albefuria in april time, im on about goin on ...
A: You meant Albufeira; isn't it?
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