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Portugal's Food, Wine and Old Towns
Cook caldo verde and bacalhau à Gomes de Sá with a Porto chef, then taste port where it ages.
Suggested length
9 days
Price guide
From $11,249 per person, excl. flights, based on two sharing
Includes hotels, private guiding, experiences and transfers
When
April to June and September to October
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Next door to Porto’s old stock exchange, the church of São Francisco glows with gilded carving. This 9-day private food and wine tour of Portugal starts there and ends in Lisbon. On request, a Porto chef teaches you a lunch built around caldo verde, the kale and potato soup of the north, and then you taste port in the cellars where it ages. Braga and Guimarães follow, and a family quinta above the Douro opens its doors. Coimbra leads south to Lisbon, Belém and the old town of Sintra, and the walled village of Óbidos closes the journey. Top guides chosen for their experience, knowledge and engaging personalities, not egos, lead each day. Meals, tastings and free hours follow your appetite.
Walk from the Palácio da Bolsa into the gilded church of São Francisco, Porto.
Cook caldo verde and bacalhau à Gomes de Sá with a local chef, on request, Porto.
Read the words Aqui nasceu Portugal on a tower of the old wall, Guimarães.
Taste port at a family quinta above the river, Douro Valley.
Walk the old town of Sintra with Luisa and try a travesseiro at Piriquita, Sintra.
Sip ginja from a chocolate cup inside the medieval walls, Óbidos.
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The 9-day Portugal food and wine itinerary at a glance
The route uses two bases and eight nights: four in Porto and four in Lisbon. From Porto, day trips reach Braga and Guimarães, about 40 minutes north by road, and the Douro Valley, with Peso da Régua about 1 hour 15 minutes inland. From Lisbon, day trips reach Sintra, about 30 minutes away, and Óbidos, about an hour north on the A8. Every day trip returns to the same hotel, so you pack only on the arrival and departure days and on day five.
Day five links the two cities by road and turns the transfer into a touring day in Coimbra. Porto to Coimbra takes about 1 hour 15 minutes, and Coimbra to Lisbon about 2 hours. Our note on travel times and stops between Lisbon and Porto sets out other options for the same drive.
April to June and September to October suit the route best. IPMA, Portugal’s weather institute, gives Porto a mean daily high of 22.6°C (about 73°F) in June and 23.4°C (about 74°F) in September, on its 1981 to 2010 averages, and Lisbon 25.7°C (about 78°F) in June and 26.6°C (about 80°F) in September. October stays mild, at 20.3°C (about 69°F) in Porto and 22.5°C (about 73°F) in Lisbon. The Douro picks its grapes between September and October, so autumn departures meet the harvest.
Licensed guides we work with on this route include Susana and Tania in Porto, Nuno in the Douro, Luisa and Anabela in Lisbon, Bruno in Coimbra, and Isabel in Sintra. Each is a highly educated local expert who cares about the people in their group. We request your guides by name, and your planner confirms who leads each day once your dates are set.
Why the route runs from Porto to Lisbon
The route starts in the north because Portuguese food starts there. Porto and the Minho give you caldo verde, salt cod, tripe stew and the wines of the Douro, and the cooking class, the market morning and the azulejo workshop all sit in the first four days, when you have energy for hands-on work. The drive south passes the roast suckling pig country of Bairrada and the university city of Coimbra, and Lisbon closes the trip with custard tarts in Belém, fado, Sintra’s pastry shops and a bread-baking morning in the west before ginja in Óbidos. Our foodie guide to Portuguese food and wine covers the dishes in more detail.
The angle is hands-on food, the dishes you cook and the bread and tiles you watch others make, with culture alongside it and one full day of wine. Travelers who want more time among the vineyards will find two Douro days and the Alentejo on our 10-day Portugal food and wine tour. Flying into Porto and home from Lisbon keeps the road moving south without doubling back, and our note on flying into Porto or Lisbon weighs the two airports.
Journey at a glance
Length
9 days
From
$11,249 per person, double occupancy
Route
Porto, Douro Valley, Braga, Guimarães, Coimbra, Lisbon, Sintra, Cascais, Óbidos
Your planner adjusts every day to your dates.
Day One
Arrival in Porto: the Bolsa, São Francisco and Foz do Douro
Your licensed driver-guide meets you at Porto airport, about 11 kilometers northwest of the city center, and brings you to your hotel. UNESCO inscribed the historic center of Porto in 1996, and the afternoon walk starts at the Palácio da Bolsa, which the city's Commercial Association began in 1842. Gonçalves e Sousa decorated its Arab Room in the Moorish Revival style between 1862 and 1880, and the hall still receives visiting heads of state. Next door, the church of São Francisco rose in plain Gothic stone from 1383 under the patronage of King Ferdinand I, and in the early 18th century carvers covered its aisles and chapels in gilded woodwork, among them a Tree of Jesse from 1718. Where it suits your party, an azulejo workshop follows, with a brush, cobalt blue paint and a blank tile of your own to take home. The day ends at Foz do Douro, where the river meets the Atlantic and the evening surf breaks along the promenade. Logistics: Porto airport to your hotel by private vehicle with your licensed driver-guide, then an afternoon on foot and a short drive west to Foz.
Day Two
Bolhão Market, São Bento and the Food of the North
Today your licensed driver-guide leads a morning on the food of Porto. Bolhão market fills a Beaux Arts building of 1914 by the architect Correia da Silva, and it reopened in 2022 after years of restoration, with stalls of salt cod, sardines, cured sausages, cheeses and flowers. Down the hill, São Bento station holds about 20,000 azulejo tiles by Jorge Colaço, who laid them between 1905 and 1916, and four central panels show the vineyards, the harvest and the wine boats coming down the Douro. Where it suits your party, the afternoon brings a hands-on cooking class with a local chef. Dishes follow the season and your tastes, such as caldo verde, the Minho soup of shredded couve-galega, potato and olive oil, or bacalhau à Gomes de Sá, salt cod with potatoes, eggs, olives and onion, which takes its name from its creator, José Luís Gomes de Sá Júnior, who lived from 1851 to 1926. Tripas à moda do Porto, tripe with white beans, explains why locals call themselves tripeiros. Legend says the city gave its meat to the fleet bound for Ceuta in 1415 and kept the tripe. You sit down to the meal you cooked, with wines from the north. Logistics: a full day in Porto on foot with your licensed driver-guide, no hotel change.
Day Three
Braga, Guimarães and Citânia de Briteiros
The Romans founded Bracara Augusta, today's Braga, in 16 BC, and your licensed driver-guide starts at the Roman baths of Maximinos, which the Romans built and rebuilt between the first and the late third century. Braga Cathedral, consecrated in 1089, is older than the kingdom of Portugal itself. Above the city, the Baroque stairway of Bom Jesus do Monte climbs 116 meters in 583 steps, zigzagging past a flight on the theme of the five senses, and a water-counterweight funicular from 1882 still carries visitors up the hill. UNESCO inscribed the sanctuary in 2019, and from the top you look out over the rooftops of Braga. In Guimarães, inscribed in 2001, a tower of the old wall carries the words Aqui nasceu Portugal, Portugal was born here, for the battle of São Mamede, which took place there on 24 June 1128 and set the country on the road to independence. In the afternoon the road climbs to Citânia de Briteiros, an Iron Age hillfort about 15 kilometers northwest of Guimarães. The archaeologist Francisco Martins Sarmento began digging there in 1875 and rebuilt two round stone houses among the remains of about 100 family compounds. Logistics: Porto to Braga by road, about 40 minutes, then about 20 minutes to Guimarães and about 40 minutes back to Porto, licensed driver-guide.
Day Four
Douro Valley: Amarante, a Family Quinta and Pinhão
Landholders in the Alto Douro have made wine for some 2,000 years, port has followed defined quality rules since 1756, and UNESCO inscribed the wine region in 2001. Your licensed driver-guide shapes the day around wine, river towns or a mix of both. On the way east, Amarante sits on the Tâmega river, where King John III authorized the church and convent of São Gonçalo in 1540, beside the stone bridge of 1790. Further east, terraces of schist walls step up every slope above the Douro. Where it suits your party, the day includes a visit and tasting at a smaller family quinta, with a walk through the vines and the cool, wine-scented air of the lodge where the port ages. At Pinhão station, 24 tile panels from 1937 show grape treading and rabelo boats carrying wine downriver to the cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia. Our team reserves lunch at a village restaurant or at a winery, as you prefer. Logistics: Porto to Amarante by road, about 40 minutes, then east into the Douro, and about 1 hour 15 minutes back to Porto from Peso da Régua, licensed driver-guide.
Day Five
South through Coimbra to Lisbon
Day five is a road day, about three and a quarter hours of driving in all, with Coimbra in the middle. The Romans called the city Aeminium, and beneath the Machado de Castro National Museum, the old bishop's palace, the vaulted galleries of the cryptoporticus held up the forum in the first or second century AD. Up the hill, UNESCO inscribed the University of Coimbra, Alta and Sofia, in 2013. Builders worked on the Biblioteca Joanina from 1717 to 1728 for King John V, and a colony of bats still eats the insects among the gilded shelves at night. In the Great Hall of Acts, the Sala dos Capelos, the kings of Portugal's first dynasty held court, and portraits of the monarchs line the walls under a ceiling of 172 painted panels. At Quinta das Lágrimas, legend says the tears of Inês de Castro fed the Fonte das Lágrimas after King Afonso IV, father of her lover Pedro, ordered her death in 1355. The Bairrada country around Mealhada, a short way north of Coimbra, roasts leitão, suckling pig with glassy crackling, and pours its own sparkling wine beside it. Logistics: Porto to Coimbra by road, about 1 hour 15 minutes, then Coimbra to Lisbon, about 2 hours, licensed driver-guide.
Day Six
Lisbon with Luisa: São Jorge Castle, Chiado and Belém
Where your dates allow, Luisa, one of our licensed guides in Lisbon and Sintra, leads the day with a licensed driver alongside her. São Jorge Castle crowns the old city, where Berber forces built the walls in the tenth century and Afonso Henriques took Lisbon in 1147, and its terraced square looks over the rooftops to the Tagus. The walk descends toward Chiado and past the Santa Justa lift, a 45-meter iron tower by the engineer Raoul Mesnier du Ponsard, in service since 1902, to Praça do Comércio and the Rua Augusta Arch, which builders finished in 1873 to mark the rebuilding of the city after the 1755 earthquake. In the afternoon, Belém holds the Jerónimos Monastery, which King Manuel I began in 1502, and the Monument to the Discoveries, a 56-meter stone prow from 1960 for the 500th anniversary of the death of Henry the Navigator, above a compass rose of inlaid limestone. The bakery beside the monastery has sold pastéis de nata since 1837, warm from the oven with a dusting of cinnamon. Where it suits your party, a fado evening follows, the song of Lisbon, which UNESCO added to its intangible heritage list in 2011. Logistics: a full day in Lisbon on foot and by private vehicle with Luisa and a licensed driver, no hotel change.
Day Seven
Sintra, Estoril, Cabo da Roca and Azenhas do Mar
Where your dates allow, Luisa leads the day again, with a licensed driver alongside her. UNESCO listed Sintra in 1995, and the morning centers on Pena Palace, the red and yellow castle King Ferdinand II and the architect Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege raised on a hilltop above the town between 1842 and 1854. In the old town, Piriquita has baked since 1862, and its travesseiros, pillows of puff pastry around an egg and almond cream, date from the 1940s. The road then runs down to Estoril, a center of spies and diplomatic secrets during the Second World War, where exiled royals such as Umberto II of Italy and Carol II of Romania later lived. In the afternoon you stand at Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point of continental Europe, above cliffs more than 100 meters high, with the Atlantic wind in your face. The day ends at Azenhas do Mar, a white village on a cliff above the ocean, with a beach below and a pool from the mid-20th century. Logistics: Lisbon to Sintra by road, about 30 minutes, then the coast road to Estoril, Cabo da Roca and Azenhas do Mar and back to Lisbon, with Luisa and a licensed driver.
Day Eight
Óbidos and the West: Bread, Walls and Ginja
Today your licensed driver-guide heads north of Lisbon into the farm country of the west. Where available, the morning starts at a traditional windmill, where a miller's family shows you how they mix, knead and bake the regional bread in a wood-fired oven, then sets the table with warm loaves, preserves, pastries and local wine. Óbidos follows, a town inside medieval walls. King Dinis and Queen Isabel spent their nuptials there in 1282, and the town passed to her as a wedding gift. It stayed with the queens of Portugal until 1834, which gave it the name Vila das Rainhas, the town of the queens, and King Dinis also remodeled its castle and walls. Before you leave, try ginja de Óbidos, a liqueur of sour cherries, aguardente and sugar, which the bars pour into a small chocolate cup you eat once the glass is empty. Logistics: Lisbon to Óbidos by road, about 1 hour each way on the A8, licensed driver-guide, back in Lisbon by early evening.
Day Nine
Departure from Lisbon
Lisbon airport, the main hub of TAP Air Portugal, sits about 7 kilometers from the historic center, so a midday flight leaves the morning free for a last coffee and a pastry, with the yellow trams climbing the hills outside. VIP fast-track assistance at the airport is available by request. Logistics: hotel to Lisbon airport by private vehicle with a licensed driver, at an hour to suit your flight.
What does a 9-day food and wine tour of Portugal include?
A 9-day food and wine tour of Portugal covers Porto, the Douro Valley and Lisbon, with the north’s kitchen at the start and the Atlantic coast at the end. This route gives Porto four nights, with a market morning, a cooking class on request, Braga and Guimarães, and a full day in the Douro. Coimbra fills the drive south. Lisbon then gets four nights, with Belém and its custard tarts, Sintra’s palaces and pastry shops, and a day in Óbidos with a bread-baking morning at a windmill. Every winery visit, tasting and cooking class on the route is an option you choose, and the guided walks and site visits form the frame of each day.
Is one day in the Douro Valley enough for wine lovers?
One day in the Douro is enough for travelers who see wine as one thread of the trip among several. It covers a family quinta with a tasting, a lunch above the river, the tiled station at Pinhão and the river town of Amarante, and you sleep back in Porto. American travelers who plan a trip around wine do better with two Douro days or a night at a quinta among the vineyards. The 10-day Portugal food and wine tour gives the Douro a second day with a winery lunch, and our team adds a quinta night to this route on request. Our report on the wine and food of northern Portugal describes the region in more detail.
Is a cooking class in Porto part of this private food tour?
Yes. On this route a hands-on cooking class with a local chef is an option on day two in Porto, after a guided morning at Bolhão market and São Bento station. The menu follows the season and your tastes, often caldo verde, bacalhau à Gomes de Sá or tripas à moda do Porto, and you sit down to the meal you cooked with wines from the north. The class runs for your own party only, so children, a vegetarian or a guest who prefers to watch fit in without fuss.
Nine days, or the 10-day Portugal food and wine tour?
Choose this 9-day route if cooking, crafts and history matter as much to you as wine. It puts a cooking class and an azulejo workshop in Porto, adds the Iron Age hillfort of Citânia de Briteiros, Amarante and Pinhão, and Estoril on the Sintra day, and closes with a bread morning at a windmill and the walled town of Óbidos. It spends one day in the Douro.
The 10-day Portugal food and wine tour suits you better if wine comes first. It shares Porto, Braga, Guimarães, Coimbra, Lisbon and Sintra, then gives the Douro two days, with a private winery lunch, and adds a day in the Alentejo among cork oaks, olive groves and vineyards, with Roman Évora. It leaves out Óbidos and the bread morning in the west.
With one week, the 7-day Portugal private tour starts in Lisbon, adds Évora and Aveiro, and keeps a Douro day from Porto. If Rioja and the Basque table appeal as much as port, the 10-day Northern Spain food and wine tour runs from Madrid through San Sebastián, Rioja and Ribera del Duero. Every Portugal route sits on our Portugal destination page, and our Portugal food and wine page gathers the regions and dishes.
Who this journey suits
Couples who cook at home and want to bring a few Portuguese dishes back with them.
Families with teenage or adult children, since the cooking class, the tile workshop and the bread morning give everyone a part to play.
First-time visitors to Portugal who want Porto and Lisbon both, with only two hotels in nine days.
History lovers who want the Roman and medieval north of Braga, Guimarães and Coimbra alongside the food.
Friends traveling together as a private party, where one wants the quinta, another the palaces, and the guide keeps the whole day on one plan.
The people behind the route
Luisa, one of our licensed guides in Lisbon and Sintra, leads the Lisbon and Sintra days where your dates allow. She works alongside a licensed driver, so the walks start where the car drops you, from the castle hill down through Chiado and from Pena down to the old town of Sintra. She times Belém around the hours of the monastery and knows which pastry shop suits a morning stop and which an afternoon one. In the north, a licensed driver-guide holds both licenses, drives the car and leads the visits from Porto to the Douro and on to Lisbon.
What the 9-day journey costs and what it includes
This 9-day journey starts from $11,249 per person, double occupancy. The from-price covers eight nights in deluxe four-star properties selected for comfort, location and service. Five-star luxury properties are available by request. It also covers licensed guides and driver-guides on the touring days, private vehicles for every transfer and excursion, and the planning and in-country support of our team.
What moves the price: travel dates and season, hotel category, the size of your party, single rooms, and the options you add, such as the cooking class and azulejo workshop in Porto, a quinta tasting and lunch in the Douro, a fado evening in Lisbon, the bread morning in the west or a night at a quinta. Our team prices each journey to your dates and party. Magical Private Travel maintains excellent ratings on Trustpilot and Google’s independent review platforms.
When the route looks close to the trip you have in mind, speak with our team about your dates, your party and the table you want to sit down to.
Questions about the 9-day Portugal food and wine tour
How many nights do we spend in Porto and Lisbon?
Four nights in each city. Porto hosts nights one to four, with day trips to Braga and Guimarães and to the Douro Valley, plus a full day in the city for Bolhão market, São Bento station and the cooking class on request. On day five a licensed driver-guide drives you south to Lisbon, stopping in Coimbra, and Lisbon hosts nights five to eight, with a full day in the city, a day in Sintra and on the coast, and a day in Óbidos. You pack only three times: on arrival, on day five and on the departure morning. Travelers who prefer a night among the vineyards swap one Porto night for a quinta in the Douro, and the trip stays at nine days.
Are the winery visits, tastings and cooking class included?
Each one is an option you choose, never a fixed part of the route. Our team builds the food and wine moments around your party. One couple wants the Porto cooking class, a quinta tasting and a long lunch in the Douro, another prefers the river towns and a fado evening in Lisbon. The options on this route include an azulejo workshop and a hands-on cooking class in Porto, a visit and tasting at a smaller family quinta in the Douro, a lunch reservation at a village restaurant or a winery, a fado evening in Lisbon, and the bread morning at a windmill in the west, where available. Your planner prices each one separately, so the quote shows what you have chosen. The guided walks, the site visits and the road transfers with your guide and driver form the frame of each day.
What food will we taste on the route?
The dishes change as the route moves south. In Porto and the Minho, expect caldo verde, the soup of shredded couve-galega and potato, bacalhau à Gomes de Sá, salt cod with potatoes, eggs and olives, and tripas à moda do Porto, the tripe and white bean stew behind the local nickname tripeiros. Bolhão market shows the raw materials, from salt cod and sardines to cured sausages and cheese. On the drive south, the Bairrada country around Mealhada roasts leitão, suckling pig with glassy crackling, alongside the region’s sparkling wine. Lisbon brings pastéis de nata in Belém, which the bakery beside the monastery has sold since 1837, and Sintra adds travesseiros from Piriquita. The last touring day ends with ginja in Óbidos, in a cup of chocolate. Our foodie guide to Portuguese food and wine lists more dishes to look for.
Do we need to drink wine to enjoy this route?
No. The route runs on food and culture as much as on wine, and only one day centers on the vineyards. The days hold the Bolsa and São Francisco in Porto, Braga, Guimarães and Citânia de Briteiros, Coimbra’s library, Lisbon’s castle and Belém, Pena Palace and the cliffs of Cabo da Roca. Non-drinkers often enjoy the market morning, the cooking class, the tile workshop and the bread morning as much as anyone in the party. Our team replaces the quinta tasting with a walk through the vines, a river town or a longer lunch on request, and swaps ginja for coffee and a pastry. Our page on alcohol-free private travel in Portugal sets out how our team plans for travelers who prefer not to drink.
What is the best time of year for a food and wine trip to Portugal?
April to June and September to October suit this route best. IPMA, Portugal’s weather institute, gives Porto a mean daily high of 17.6°C (about 64°F) in April, 22.6°C (about 73°F) in June, 23.4°C (about 74°F) in September and 20.3°C (about 69°F) in October, on its 1981 to 2010 averages. Lisbon runs a few degrees warmer, at 19.8°C (about 68°F) in April, 26.6°C (about 80°F) in September and 22.5°C (about 73°F) in October, against 27.9°C (about 82°F) in July. The Douro harvest falls between September and October, when the quintas pick their grapes. Winter departures suit the slow-cooked dishes of the north, with shorter days in the vineyards.
Who guides and drives us on the 9-day tour?
In Porto, Braga, Guimarães, the Douro, Coimbra and Óbidos, a licensed driver-guide looks after you, one person holding both licenses who drives the car and leads the visits. The same arrangement covers the road transfer from Porto to Lisbon on day five, with your luggage in the car. In Lisbon and Sintra, where your dates allow, Luisa, one of our licensed guides, leads the touring days and works alongside a licensed driver, two separate people. Every transfer runs by private vehicle for your own party, from the Porto airport pickup to the Lisbon airport drop-off. Our team in Madrid plans the whole route, books site entries and the options you choose, and stays in contact through the trip.
How do you get from Porto to Lisbon on this route?
A licensed driver-guide drives you south by road on day five, and the transfer becomes a touring day. Porto to Coimbra takes about 1 hour 15 minutes, and you spend the middle of the day among the Roman galleries under the Machado de Castro museum, the Biblioteca Joanina, the Great Hall of Acts and Quinta das Lágrimas. Coimbra to Lisbon then takes about 2 hours, so you reach your Lisbon hotel in the late afternoon. The day carries about three and a quarter hours of driving in all, and a lunch of leitão in the Bairrada country fits on the way. Our note on stops between Lisbon and Porto sets out other ways to break the same drive, such as Aveiro or Óbidos.
Should we add a night in the Douro Valley?
Yes, and many travelers do. The route as written visits the Douro as a day trip from Porto, with Peso da Régua about 1 hour 15 minutes inland by road. A night at a quinta hotel among the vineyards gives you a slower lunch, an evening on the terrace above the river and an early walk through the vines before the heat. Swapping one Porto night for a Douro night keeps the trip at nine days, and adding a night makes it ten. The 10-day Portugal food and wine tour gives the Douro two full days, and our team adapts this route the same way on request, with your licensed driver-guide driving you on to Coimbra and Lisbon from the valley.
How much walking does the itinerary involve?
Several places on this route sit on hills with cobbled lanes and steps, including the old center of Porto, the upper town of Coimbra, Alfama and the castle hill in Lisbon, and the old town of Sintra. Bom Jesus do Monte in Braga climbs 583 steps, and the funicular from 1882 carries visitors up and down the hill instead. Pena Palace sits high above Sintra in a large park. Your driver drops you at the top of a quarter where the roads allow, so many walks run downhill, and your guide sets the pace to your party. Your guide is glad to advise on suitability before booking, and our page on accessible travel explains how our team plans step-free days.
We keep a list of vetted four- and five-star hotels, well located and enjoyed by our past travelers and by our own team.
Examples for each overnight stop on this route. Choose a deluxe boutique hotel or a five-star stay, and your travel advisor matches each night to your wishes, the season and availability.
Porto
Boutique: Torel 1884. An 1884 palace near São Bento station, with rooms themed on Portugal’s voyages of discovery.
Five-star: The Yeatman. Terraced into the Gaia hillside among the port lodges, every room with a terrace facing Porto.
Lisbon
Boutique: Memmo Alfama. A design hotel on an Alfama lane, with a pool beside its wine-bar terrace over the Tagus.
Five-star: Four Seasons Hotel Ritz Lisbon. A 1959 landmark beside Eduardo VII Park, filled with mid-century Portuguese art and tapestries.
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