For many years, had the name Hocus Pocus. Was started, so pioneer, as a hotel restaurant open to the local community of Pico-Aldeia da Fonte Hotel's restaurant. Thus raised local Prestige being the Chinese food Buffet every Friday night and the Flavors of the world from Buffet lunches on Sunday one point almost mandatory frequency. In a perspective of continuous improvement, the Source now launches a new Cuisine menu which designated "New Azorean Cuisine". It is intended with this bet to invest in a kitchen of author that reconciles the new culinary techniques with the flavors\/traditional products in the Azores. …

Overlooking the Rio Minho, in Monsoon, this charming rural hotel incorporates the Conventual spaces typical as the room of the Chapter, the door of the soup kitchen, wine cellar, Chapel, and the Tower room. The cloister, a space with characteristics of "intimacy" unusual, is the ex-libris of the Hotel. The revalorisation of the exterior spaces and, especially, the Source of the friars, an area of great beauty, has preserved all the memory and mysterious nature of the Capuchos convent. The Hotel Capuchos convent give the story to the present and opens the Community patrimony, the highest levels of comfort, functionality …

This tour begins in the Luís de Camões Garden, where you can find a Tourism Office. Cross the 5 de Outubro Street and enter the Rodrigues Lobo Square. This is the centre of the city, the ideal place to relax under the cinquentist arcades animated by pleasant esplanades. In one of the corners, the statue of the poet Rodrigues Lobo (1579-1621) points out the right direction. Follow through the Miguel Bombarda Street and notice the Misericórdia Church, built on an ancient synagogue. Nearby is the Barão de Viamonte Street, former Direita Street, which marks the axle of this ancient quarter, …

Serra da Freita is part of the Gralheira Massif, together with Serra da Arada and Serra do Arestal, reaching its maximum altitude at 1085 meters at Pico de São Pedro Velho, and extending through the municipalities of Arouca, São Pedro do South and Vale de Cambra. There you will find natural riches such as the Frecha da Mizarela waterfall, 75 m high, and the Pedras Parideiras, a geological phenomenon that can only be observed in Russia. These are a type of stones that are “born” from a mother rock of granite origin, and which symbolize fertility in the region’s popular …

O edifício foi, originalmente, o solar da família Figueiredo Abranches, tendo sido mandado construir em 1773 por Teresa Bernarda de Figueiredo Abranches e seu marido Francisco José Pinto de Mendonça, que era Desembargador. Herdeira do Morgado das Obras, por parte de seu pai, a ela se ficou a dever a designação de Casa das Obras, pela qual o imóvel é também conhecido. A casa ficou concluída em 1778, mas nesse ano era já habitada por Luís Bernardo Pinto de Mendonça e Figueiredo e Ana Leonor Nogueira d'Abreu e Abranches, herdeiros dos primeiros proprietários. O brasão que se conserva no tímpano …

The Natural Park of Sintra is the framing of this path suspended between the sea and the hills of Portugal's most romantic and regarded by professionals as one of the best in the European circuit. Whimsical framed by boulders that form the serra de Sintra, source of inspiration for Lord Byron, who called it "Glorious Eden", the Atlantic field is a fabulous 18-hole course situated 20 minutes from Lisbon. Robert Trent Jones II designed it in such a way as to combine, optimally, the irregularity of the terrain with perspectives of landscape of mountains and surrounding sea. The holes 6 …

Installed in an 18th-century Manor House has been transformed into the Inn in 1974 and, recently, in 4-star hotel, this accommodation unit is divided into three buildings. Saves all the ambiance of a traditional House of quinta do Minho, with dark wooden ceilings and stone walls. The rooms have a lovely view over the gardens and over the hills and valleys of Góios. Some apartments can still the Minho river and its margin. The outdoor pool, inserted in the gardens surrounded by fruit trees, all in stone and was kept in its original style. When they're ripe, lemons, oranges, peaches …

At the top of Glória Lift is the garden and viewpoint of São Pedro de Alcântara and, going up Dom Pedro V Street, you reach Jardim do Príncipe Real. Underneath the garden is the Patriarcal water reservoir, from 1864. A little further on are the Natural History and Science Museums, as well as the Botanical Garden. On Academia das Ciências Street you will find the Academy and the Geological Museum. Continuing along São Bento Street you will find the Assembly of the Republic, installed in the São Bento Palace. Continue along Avenida Dom Carlos I and you will see the …

The parish church, Temple of longitudinal plant, is flanked by a churchyard, walled that for a long time was used as a cemetery, still sporting the whole floor lajeado. The main façade has a portal of rectangular shape, surmounted by a round window surmounted by a belfry with two tears "founders, each of them with a Bell, crowned by two pinnacles, with ball Finial, and a cross trilobada. The interior of this church is of a great ornamental wealth. The granite stone walls are partially covered in the chancel, by a tiled wainscot, with liturgical reasons represented; one of the …

The tour begins in the Capelão Street. Go, then, through the Mouraria Street until the Senhora da Saúde Church, where you can enjoy the woodcarving altar and the beautiful glazed tiles. Enter the picturesque Mouraria Quarter climbing the small stairs of Saúde and continue by the Largo da Rosa, where you’ll find the Convent with the same name and the São Lourenço Church. Following through the largo da Achada and going up the Calçada do Marquês de Tancos you'll find the Municipal Market Chão do Loureiro, which integrates some plastic artists’ ateliers and a beautiful esplanade. Following through the Costa …