Visiting Portugal – Ideal tips for tourists

  If you want to visit Portugal do not make any plan. Even if, you could travel in good conditions by train or by bus, the best way to know Portugal is by travelling with your own car. This way you will have the opportunity to explore everything using the roads improved in the latest years - visit our rentals and book online your holiday.

  A highway goes from Lisbon to Porto in the northern side and continues through Valença. 

  The road situated in the south of Lisbon crosses by many cities that formerly were difficult to access. 

  In order to travel from east to west for long distances you can use the express trains.

  A good starting point to knowing Portugal is Lisbon and its environs. 

  If the weather is fine you could go through south to the wonderful beaches of Algarve. After few days of relaxation here you could rove through Portuguese villages. You will be fascinated by Alentejo area, the spectacular fields and the charming city Evora.

  Going back through Atlantic and to North, you could visit Coimbra an old university city and the fish man traditional communities along the coast.

  In the northern side the travellers will discover Douro and Minho, regions famous for their wineries. In this area are produced the well known wines of Porto and the delicious “vinhos verdes”. 

  Far away inside the Northern Portugal there is Trás-os-Montes a splendid area. 

  Other wonderful places as Beira Alta, Beira Baixacan be visited by travellers. 

  A complete different world will be discovered from the ones that choose to see islands of Madeira and Azore.

  Your preferences will decide where you go either the quiet, rural North of Portugal, or the hot and crowded South.. During your trip you will see cities with old and specific architecture but with disco clubs and elegant shops too. The accommodation offer is various, from luxury hotels, “pousadas” and private manors, to simply rooms situated above village restaurants. 

  Portugal is a small country, but almost everywhere, the travellers can get lost in a wonderful landscape having in his mind that Lisbon is at hand anytime.

  With its coffees, its cultural offer, a castle, Lisbon is a vibrating city, putting together the old world charm with local colour and modern facilities.

  Lisbon offer satisfies many tastes including cultural performances, shopping opportunities or a lot of places where the visitors can taste the local gastronomic products. Along the day the life spin around the coffees with delicious coffee and cakes. But the city become really alive in the evening when in small bars you can taste the Alfama and Bairro Alto wines and listen the “fado”, the songs of lost loves and past glories. 

  Lisbon climate –hot summers and soft winters- make travels easy all the year long, but the most appropriate time for this is the spring and the autumn. 

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