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SuggestionsPortugal Music Festivals – HeadlinersHeritage, ocean, diversity, sunshine, well-being, flavours, culture, and nature – these are the true headliners taking the stage at festivals in Portugal.Festivals are opportunities to dive into the very elements that make a destination special at (...)
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SuggestionsTerceira, the festive islandThe island of Terceira, one of the main entry points to the Azores, together with the islands of Graciosa, São Jorge, Pico and Faial, forms the central group of the archipelago.As its name implies, this was the third island of the archipelago to be (...)
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SuggestionsPopular Saints’ FestivalsJune is the month of celebrations and festivities for the Popular Saints throughout the country on the nights of St. Anthony, St. John and St. Peter.The main ones are the Festas de Lisboa, on 12 and 13 June, St. Anthony’s day, and in Porto on the (...)
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SuggestionsFestivals and DevotionsAs an act of faith or the simple pleasure of discovery, you will find in Portugal a multitude of reasons for visiting and for religious celebration and as many options for spiritual quest. Portugal, the oldest nation in Europe, whose frontiers have (...)
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SuggestionsSantarém, the belvedere city of RibatejoStanding on the top of a plateau, Santarém is a belvedere over the fertile wetland region, the River Tagus valley known for farming, cattle breeding and bullfighting.The city incorporated the lands of the Order of Christ, which supported the (...)
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SuggestionsEntertainment in MadeiraMadeira is a destination rich in entertaining events, with a programme full of shows, festivals and exhibitions.This archipelago, with its unique natural landscape and known for its eternal spring climate and exuberant vegetation, is not just an (...)
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SuggestionsLeiria, Creative City of MusicLive and breathe music in Leiria!Several innovative projects have helped the city gain national and international visibility, which, along with other criteria, has contributed to its being named a UNESCO Creative City of Music.Concerts for Babies, (...)
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SuggestionsCarnival of Podence, World HeritageThe ancient Carnival held in the village of Podence is one of the most important traditional events of northern Portugal. The strong participation of the local community that has managed to preserve this tradition for centuries and its current (...)
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SuggestionsCampo MaiorLocated in the Alentejo, near the Spanish border, Campo Maior can be found in the middle of a vast plain stretching over more than 50 kilometres – a settlement known to the Romans as "Campus Major". Nowadays, quiet streets and whitewashed houses are (...)
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SuggestionsÓbidosThe mediaeval town of Óbidos is one of the most picturesque and well preserved in Portugal.Quite close to the capital and located on high ground near the Atlantic coast, Óbidos has had a strategic importance in the territory. It had already been (...)
