Housed in a luxurious Palace built in the 19th century overlooking the Tagus River and surrounded by a magnificent tropical garden, the restaurant Lapa can find delicious traditional dishes from Italy and Portugal, in elegant surroundings with excellent service. The kitchen is in charge of chef Hélder Santos, being one of the most highly regarded restaurants in Lisbon, winner of numerous national and international awards.

After Lagos, Maria do Mar restaurant-Preserved and tasting, also opened in Portimão. In Maria do Mar are sold canned tuna, sardines, black scabbardfish, among other fish, which make very colorful spaces, a showcase of Portugal canning. Can and should try the snacks that are prepared from the existing cans such as sardine tiborna (€2,75, with glass of wine included).

In the Nelson of the piglets, the most famous of the port market, the Bolhão, can sit down at the table and catch up on old times of old-fashioned roast suckling pig, whose secret of making is in the hands of the owners for more than 30 years. The piglet comes directly from the mother house in Anadia. Seasoned with garlic, salt and pepper, crispy crunchy skin and a heavenly sauce.

This garden, designed by architect Sidónio Pardal, is one of the main green spaces in São João da Madeira. A very well-maintained and pleasant area, it runs parallel to Avenida da Liberdade and extends from the City Hall building to the bridge, reaching the Ul River and its banks. The garden connects to the Urban Park located along the valley traversed by the same river.

Garden unequalled in Portugal, the visit to this ex-libris is essential. The Paço Garden, annexed to the former bishop’s palace, was sent to build by the Guarda bishop, Dom João de Mendonça, in 1725. The beautiful baroque garden has various lakes, cascades, water spouts, staircases and statues. The Kings Staircase immortalizes all the Portuguese kings in granite, from Dom Afonso Henriques to the King Dom José I. Among the box appear symbolic statues from which stand out the four Men’s ultimate purposes, the cardial virtues, the theological virtues, the signs of the zodiac, the five parts of the world, the …

Quinta da Veiga is situated on the slope left of the Caniçada dam, seven kilometres from Vila do Gerês and 20 from the border with Spain. The property offers a countryside and forests on the mountains Merouço, Cabreira and Gerês and on the rivers Cávado and Ave has 8200 square meters of area, where it enters the pool and two gardens. The accommodation is made in apartments, two of T3 typology and one of type T2, situated in the main villa and a T2 set in Casa da Pedra. Almost all can be rented as a whole or for rooms, …

A new field in the Lisbon area that makes the Mastic a privileged Centre for the practice of golf, thanks to two neighbouring paths and a considerable area of practice. A concept quite different from golf Aroeira I course, materialized in "greens" fast and large that actually exceed the 700 m2 and are equipped with grass Penn A2, causes the Aroeira II is the first Portuguese golf course to use in the "greens" such a kind of grass, which can be cut to 2 mm. in spite of the inviting "greens", notes a growing difficulty of hole 1 to 9 …

The Science Museum of the University of Coimbra, located in the refurbished building of "Lab Chimico", of neoclassical style, is an interactive space that seeks to make known the science the public of all ages, from the collections of scientific instruments at the University of Coimbra. Waiting for you are many objects which tell different stories and curious, stories that will awaken in them the desire to learn even more. With the help of a team of highly qualified monitors, will be able to discover the exhibitions and original and creative educational activities that help meet the science in a …

The Aveiro Museum (also known as the Santa Joana Museum) is housed in the former Convent of Jesus, founded in 1464 by Dom Brites Leitoa. During the late 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, it underwent numerous interventions, from the construction of the cloister and of the tomb of Santa Joana, as well as the gilded carvings and historic tiles of the chancel and church body. By virtue of the Decree dated 1834 (extinction of the religious Orders) the convent is extinguished, and it starts to function as a college until 1910. In 1911 it is becames a Museum. It undergoes …

The Sé is the main church in the city of Porto. It was built in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The first mass was held in the year 1120. In the 13th century alterations were made that completely altered the main portal. Rebuilt in the Baroque style, it kept only the rose window of its original construction. Nicolau Nasoni was the author of a galilee on the north façade, and also intervened in the decoration of the sacristy. The interior retains the images of Nossa Senhora da Vandoma (14th century), the "silver altar", an important Gothic cloister, the "old cloister", …