City Guides

How a Trabucco Works, and Why These Strange Wooden Platforms Still Define the Coast of Northern Puglia

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

Gargano National Park Travel Guide: Foresta Umbra, White Cliffs and the Wild Side of Puglia

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

Two Days on the Lower Guadiana, from Vila Real de Santo António’s 18th-Century Grid to Castro Marim and Ayamonte

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

From Queen Isabel to Josefa de Óbidos, Following Six Centuries of Art and Royal History Inside the Medieval Walls

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

Tomar from the Knights Templar to the Age of Discovery, Through the Charola, Manueline Stonework and the Order of Christ

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

Lamego Travel Guide: Nossa Senhora dos Remédios, Medieval Streets and Wine Country Above the Douro

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

Elvas Beyond Its Aqueduct, with Medieval Streets, Dutch-Style Bastions and One of Europe’s Most Extraordinary Star Forts

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

Lindoso Travel Guide: Castle, Granite Espigueiros and the Mountain Frontier of Peneda-Gerês

Beneath a medieval border fortress, Lindoso’s granite granaries preserve the agricultural landscape of Portugal’s Serra Amarela and Peneda-Gerês

Monção and the Upper Minho, Through Fortress Walls, River Landscapes and the Historic Heartland of Portuguese Alvarinho

Across the Minho from Galicia, Monção preserves a fortified frontier town surrounded by vineyards producing some of Portugal’s finest Alvarinho

Two Days in Viana do Castelo Through Maritime History, Minho Traditions and the Wild Atlantic Coast at Cabedelo

From the Gil Eannes hospital ship to Santa Luzia, Viana do Castelo tells its maritime history between the Lima and...