City Guides

Beside a broad Gargano beach, Manaccora hides a Bronze Age cave where burials, workshops and prehistoric huts survive above the Adriatic

High above the Adriatic, Peschici descends through whitewashed lanes toward sandy bays, historic trabucchi and the rugged northern Gargano coast.

Between Gargano hills and the Adriatic, Lago di Varano spreads behind a pine-covered dune strip shaped by fishing, springs and...

Along the Gargano cliffs, wooden trabucchi still stretch over the Adriatic, preserving a fishing technique built around currents rather than...

Beech forest, limestone cliffs and Adriatic lagoons occupy the same rugged promontory in Gargano National Park, Puglia’s most varied natural...

Built almost from scratch in the 1770s, Vila Real de Santo António faces Spain across the Guadiana behind an unusually...

Behind Óbidos’s medieval walls, royal patronage, Baroque painting and a modern literary culture survive within one remarkably compact Portuguese town

A Templar fortress founded in 1160 still towers above Tomar, where a medieval synagogue and Manueline masterpieces survive beside the Nabão

Six hundred and eighty-six steps rise above Lamego to a Baroque sanctuary, while medieval walls and vineyards spread below toward...

On Portugal’s old frontier with Spain, Elvas turns an entire landscape into military architecture, from star forts to a seven-kilometre...