When visiting a new place for the first time, you want to make sure that you see and experience as...
The National Museum Machado de Castro features many historical and antique objects originating from the churches and convents of Coimbra...
Art galleries generally have a reputation for being minimalistic spaces, in high-traffic urban areas, frequented by bohemian art groupies and upper-end snooty collectors. Côrte-Real Gallery in Paderne is the complete antithesis of that stereotype.
Pena Palace (Palácio Nacional da Pena) is the most complete and notable example of Portuguese Romantic architecture. Originally the palace...
Belem Tower is one of many important monuments around Lisbon. It was built between 1514 and 1520 on the northern...
Who would guess that Portugal has some of the most interesting and awe-inspiring spaces devoted to books? Porto is home to the most beautiful bookstore in the world, Livraria Lello. But, the University of Coimbra in Central Portugal is the location for one of the world’s grandest and unique libraries, the Biblioteca Joanina.
Who would have guessed? Just an hour north of Lisbon, in the countryside, is a beautiful managed garden intended as...
Residing the in the restored Convento das Bernardas, Lisbon’s Museu da Marioneta (Puppet Museum) is the first and only museum...