
Coimbra
Coimbra is the university city of the Mondego, its library and old monastery among the sights, an easy stop on tours between Lisbon and Porto.
View detailsCoimbra is the university city of the Mondego, its library and old monastery among the sights, an easy stop on tours between Lisbon and Porto.
View detailsAveiro, shaped by the Ria lagoon, is a city of canals and art nouveau, crossed by moliceiro boats, with the fish market at its heart.
View detailsViseu, at the heart of central Portugal between mountains and Dão vineyards, is a city of granite, gardens and Renaissance painting.
View detailsFátima, the great centre of pilgrimage born of the apparitions of 1917, is visited on tours that add Batalha, Nazaré and Óbidos.
View detailsTomar, founded in 1160 by Gualdim Pais of the Templars, is the city of the Convent of Christ, visited with wine tastings by boat.
View detailsBatalha is named for the battle of Aljubarrota of 1385, remembered at its great monastery, a stop between Fátima and Nazaré.
View detailsAlcobaça grew around its great Cistercian monastery, a defining monument of Portuguese history, visited on tours from Lisbon and Fátima.
View detailsÓbidos is a medieval town ringed by fortified walls, the queen's town since King Dinis gave it to Isabel in 1282, near the lagoon.
View detailsNazaré grew from a fishing village into a world-famous surf town, its great waves at Praia do Norte below the clifftop fort.
View detailsPeniche is a fishing town on its Atlantic peninsula, with the fortress, the Berlengas islands offshore and surfers on the waves.
View detailsÍlhavo, on the Aveiro lagoon, is the city of the cod fishermen, with the Santo André museum ship, Vista Alegre porcelain and Costa Nova.
View detailsLeiria, between Lisbon and Porto, keeps its twelfth-century castle built by Afonso Henriques above a lively city of the Centre.
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