Discover Portugal’s most amazing places

Lisbon’s 18th-century aqueduct carried water from Sintra’s hills above the Alcântara valley in 35 arches, and survived the…

The statue blessing Lisbon from the south bank: the Cristo Rei terrace, 84 metres up, opens the finest…

Santa Engrácia’s endless works finished at last in 1966: Lisbon’s National Pantheon holds the tombs of Amália, Eusébio…

Portugal’s finest art museum: the São Vicente Panels, Bosch and Dürer at Janelas Verdes — reopening on 21…

Portugal’s highest point rises 2,351 metres from the Atlantic: a supervised climb to the summit of Mount Pico,…

In Furnas, on São Miguel, the volcano still cooks: steaming caldeiras, hot springs and the famous cozido buried…

The Santo André, the last side trawler of Portugal’s cod fleet, now a museum ship at Ílhavo near…

The Roman baths of Aquae Flaviae in Chaves, among the best preserved in Roman Hispania — water at…

Tavira’s barrier island, eleven kilometres of Atlantic sand across the Ria Formosa, reached by ferry or tiny train.

The islet of Pessegueiro off Porto Covo, with its 17th-century fort, Roman fish tanks and boat trips in…

The Guadiana’s dramatic gorge and waterfall, the highest in southern Portugal, inside the Vale do Guadiana park.

The largest artificial lake in Western Europe, born of the Guadiana in 2002 and now a Dark Sky…