Portugal · Private and tailor-made
Port Lodges, Lisbon and the Algarve Cliffs
Walk Sintra's Monserrate Palace and gardens after hours, the house yours alone.
By arrangement · How private access worksSuggested length
10 days
Price guide
From $8,840 per person, excl. international flights, based on two sharing
Includes hotels, private guiding, experiences and transfers
When
April to June and September to October
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Here Portugal was born, says an old wall tower in Guimarães, and this 10-day private tour of Portugal runs from that northern town to the sea. In Porto you taste a francesinha, a hot sandwich of cured meats under melted cheese and a beer and tomato sauce. You climb to Bom Jesus in Braga, then stay among the schist-walled terraces of the Douro Valley. In Sintra, by arrangement, Monserrate Palace and its gardens are yours alone after hours. Évora leads south to the Algarve’s sea caves. Top guides chosen for their experience, knowledge and engaging personalities, not egos, lead each day. Your planner reshapes any day around you, so you pay only for what you want.
Taste a francesinha and the stalls of the Bolhão market on a guided food day, Porto.
Take the water-balance funicular of 1882 up to the sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte, Braga.
Sleep two nights among the schist-walled vineyard terraces, Douro Valley.
Walk down the spiral Initiation Well of Quinta da Regaleira with Luisa, Sintra.
Visit the Roman temple and the Chapel of Bones on the road south, Évora.
Ride a boat along the limestone cliffs to the sea caves of the Algarve coast.
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The 10-day Portugal itinerary at a glance
The route uses four bases and nine nights: three in Porto, two in the Douro Valley, two in Lisbon and two on the Algarve coast. Porto airport sits about 11 kilometers from the Clérigos Tower, and Braga and Guimarães lie about 45 minutes north by road, so day three returns to the same hotel. The Douro opens about 1 hour 15 minutes east of Porto at Peso da Régua.
Two road days carry the hotel changes south. Day six runs from the Douro to Lisbon, about three and a half hours. Day eight runs from Lisbon to Évora in the Alentejo, about 1 hour 35 minutes, and on to the Algarve coast, about 2 hours 30 minutes, with lunch and a guided visit in between. Sintra sits about 30 minutes from Lisbon, and the journey ends at Faro airport, about 4 kilometers west of the city. In Lisbon and Sintra a licensed guide works alongside a licensed driver. In Porto, the Douro, the Alentejo and the Algarve a licensed driver-guide, one person holding both licenses, looks after you.
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. Lisbon reaches 25.7°C (about 78°F) and 26.6°C (about 80°F) in the same months, and Faro 26.4°C (about 80°F) and 26.6°C (about 80°F). Faro records an average of 22.5 millimeters of rain in September, and September and October also bring the Douro harvest.
Licensed guides we work with on this route include Susana and Tania in Porto, Luisa and Anabela in Lisbon, Isabel in Sintra, and Elsa and Nuno in Évora. 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 the Algarve
The route starts in Porto, whose airport lists nonstop routes to New York, Newark and Boston, and works south through the mainland regions in order: the wine country of the north, the capital, the cork and olive country of the Alentejo, then the south coast. It never doubles back, and it ends a short drive from Faro airport. Our note on flying into Porto or Lisbon weighs the arrival airports in more detail.
The angle is the whole mainland in one line, with wine country first and the sea last. Porto, the Douro, Lisbon and the Algarve each hold two or three nights, so no stop lasts a single night. The Alentejo, the one region the route crosses in a day, turns the longest transfer into a touring day, with Évora’s Roman temple and an Alentejo lunch at its center. The route as written is a starting point, and our team shapes it around your dates and interests.
Journey at a glance
Length
10 days
From
$8,840 per person, double occupancy
Route
Porto, Braga, Guimarães, Douro Valley, Lisbon, Sintra, Cascais, Évora, Algarve
Your planner adjusts every day to your dates.
Day One
Arrival in Porto: Clérigos, Carmo and the Ribeira
Your licensed driver-guide meets you at Porto airport, about 11 kilometers northwest of the Clérigos Tower. UNESCO inscribed the historic center of Porto, with the Luiz I Bridge, in 1996. The afternoon walk starts below the tower, which the Italian architect Nicolau Nasoni built between 1754 and 1763, 75.6 meters high with 240 steps to the top for anyone who wants the view. Around the corner, the side wall of the Carmo church carries a blue and white tile panel from 1912, scenes of the Carmelite order which Silvestre Silvestri designed and Carlos Branco painted. Livraria Lello, which the Lello brothers opened on Rua das Carmelitas in 1906, keeps its forked wooden staircase under a stained glass window, and our team books the entry tickets. The walk ends on the Ribeira waterfront under the iron arch of the Luiz I Bridge, which Théophile Seyrig designed and Porto inaugurated in 1886, with rabelo boats at their moorings below and the port lodges of Gaia across the water. Logistics: Porto airport to your hotel by private vehicle with your licensed driver-guide, then an afternoon on foot in the old center.
Day Two
Porto Food Day: Bolhão Market, Tripe and the Francesinha
Today your licensed driver-guide leads a food day through Porto. In 1839 the city council laid out a square on the land of the Bolhão market, and Correia da Silva designed the market building in 1914. It reopened in 2022 after more than four years of restoration, and its stalls of fish, fruit, flowers, cured meats and cheeses make the first tasting stop. Porto's people still answer to the nickname tripeiros, tripe eaters. Local legend says the town gave its clean meat to the fleet Henry the Navigator readied for Ceuta in 1415 and kept the innards, and tripas à moda do Porto, tripe with white beans, carrots and sausage, carries the story on. In 1953 Daniel da Silva, back from France and Belgium, adapted the croque monsieur and served the first francesinha at A Regaleira on Rua do Bonjardim, layers of toast and hot meats under melted cheese and a beer and tomato sauce. Where it suits your party, the afternoon brings a cooking class with a chef and dinner with Portuguese wines. Logistics: a full day in Porto on foot and by car with your licensed driver-guide, no hotel change.
Day Three
Braga and Guimarães: Where Portugal Began
Bishop Pedro began Braga Cathedral about 1071, and its consecration in 1089 made it the first cathedral in Portugal, older than the kingdom itself. In its Chapel of the Kings lie Count Henry and Countess Theresa, the parents of Portugal's first king. Above the city, the Baroque stairway of Bom Jesus do Monte climbs 116 meters in 583 steps, and a water-balance funicular from 1882, the first in the Iberian Peninsula, runs alongside it. UNESCO inscribed the sanctuary in 2019. About 16 kilometers away, Countess Mumadona Dias ordered the castle of Guimarães in the 10th century, and a document of 968 already calls it new. UNESCO inscribed the historic center of Guimarães in 2001 for its ties to the birth of Portuguese identity in the 12th century, and its houses still show granite ground floors under timber-framed upper storeys. A tower of the old wall carries the words Aqui nasceu Portugal, Portugal was born here, and the six tall chimneys of the Palace of the Dukes of Braganza rise above the town. Logistics: Porto to Braga by road, about 45 minutes, then about 16 kilometers to Guimarães and back to Porto, licensed driver-guide.
Day Four
Into the Douro Valley: Vineyard Trails and the River
Your licensed driver-guide drives east out of Porto to the river at Peso da Régua, and the hills close in. UNESCO inscribed the Alto Douro Wine Region in 2001, where landholders have made wine for some 2,000 years, and port has followed defined quality rules since 1756. The oldest terraces, the socalcos, hold one or two rows of vines each behind walls of schist. Where it suits your party, a walk on the trails between the vineyards fills the morning, with the river below you and the smell of warm earth and vine leaves. After lunch, a boat on the Douro carries you past the quintas, and the deck shows the whole sweep of terraces from water to ridge. At Pinhão station, 24 tile panels from 1937 show the harvest, the treading of the grapes and rabelo boats carrying wine down to Vila Nova de Gaia. The evening belongs to your hotel among the vines. Logistics: Porto to Peso da Régua by road, about 1 hour 15 minutes, with your licensed driver-guide, first of two nights in the Douro Valley.
Day Five
A Douro Quinta: Vines, Cellar and Lunch at the Estate
Day five belongs to a family wine estate, where available. You walk the rows with the estate team, step into the cool, wine-scented lodge where the bottles and barrels rest, and sit down to lunch with the estate's wines poured alongside. Port is a fortified wine: the winemaker adds aguardente, a neutral grape spirit, part way through fermentation, which stops the yeast, keeps the natural sweetness and lifts the wine to 19 to 22 percent alcohol. The rules approve more than a hundred grape varieties for port. Touriga Nacional ranks as the most prized, and Touriga Francesa covers the most ground. Between September and October the quintas bring in the harvest, and at the end of the day the pickers step barefoot into the stone lagares to tread the grapes. In 1756, under the Marquis of Pombal, a new royal company began to guard the quality of Douro wine and decide which casks went for export. Logistics: a day among the quintas by road with your licensed driver-guide, second night in the Douro Valley.
Day Six
South to Lisbon: São Jorge Castle, Alfama and Belém
Day six opens with the longest single drive of the journey, about three and a half hours from the Douro to Lisbon, and the afternoon belongs to the capital. Where your dates allow, Luisa, one of our licensed guides in Lisbon and Sintra, meets you with a licensed driver. Berber builders raised the first walls of São Jorge Castle in the 10th century, and Afonso Henriques took the castle and the city in 1147 with crusaders from northern Europe. From the castle walls the view runs across the red roofs of Alfama to the Tagus, and the lanes and stairways of the quarter drop below you to the river. In Belém, Francisco de Arruda built the Belém Tower between about 1514 and 1519 to guard the mouth of the Tagus, and a stone rhinoceros on one turret most likely shows the animal King Manuel I sent to Pope Leo X in 1515. Nearby, the Fábrica de Pastéis de Belém has sold custard tarts since 1837, warm from the oven, with cinnamon to dust on top. In the evening, Bairro Alto, whose first lots date from 1487, fills with dinner tables, and the walk continues toward Lapa. Logistics: Douro Valley to Lisbon by road, about 3 hours 30 minutes, licensed driver-guide, then the afternoon with Luisa and a licensed driver.
Day Seven
Sintra, Quinta da Regaleira and Cascais with Luisa
Where your dates allow, Luisa leads the day with a licensed driver alongside her. UNESCO inscribed Sintra in 1995 and calls it the first center of European Romantic architecture. The morning centers on Quinta da Regaleira, which António Augusto Carvalho Monteiro bought in 1892 and the Italian architect Luigi Manini built for him from 1904 to about 1910. Its Initiation Well drops 27 meters down a spiral stair of nine flights to a stone compass at the bottom, with moss on the walls and cool, damp air rising from below, and tunnels lead out through the rock into the gardens. After a walk through the old town of Sintra, the road follows the coast to Cascais, a fishing village where King Luís I and the royal family spent part of each summer from 1870 to 1908. West of town, the sea chasm of Boca do Inferno takes the full force of the Atlantic swell. Logistics: Lisbon to Sintra by road, about 30 minutes, with Luisa and a licensed driver, then on to Cascais and back to Lisbon.
Day Eight
Across the Alentejo: Évora on the Road South
Day eight is the longest road day, about four hours of driving in all, with Évora at its center. Your licensed driver-guide heads east into the Alentejo, where cork oaks stand in the fields. Portugal produces about half the world's cork, and harvesters strip each tree about every nine years. UNESCO inscribed the historic center of Évora in 1986 for its lime-washed houses with painted tiles and wrought-iron balconies from the 16th to the 18th centuries. The Roman temple at the top of town dates from about the first century and most likely honored Augustus. It served as a butcher's shop from the 14th century until 1836, which kept its columns standing on their marble bases from Estremoz. In the church of São Francisco, Franciscan friars lined the Chapel of Bones with the remains of about 5,000 people, under the words we bones here wait for yours. Lunch brings migas, a dish of day-old bread, garlic and olive oil, beside black pork from pigs which feed on acorns, and Serpa cheese of raw sheep's milk. The afternoon runs south to the coast. Logistics: Lisbon to Évora by road, about 1 hour 35 minutes, then Évora to the Algarve coast, about 2 hours 30 minutes, licensed driver-guide, first of two nights on the Algarve.
Day Nine
The Western Algarve: Cape St. Vincent and the Sea Caves
Today your licensed driver-guide heads west along the Algarve, past whitewashed villages, to Cape St. Vincent, the southwestern tip of mainland Europe. Its cliffs rise almost straight from the Atlantic to about 75 meters. The lighthouse dates from 1846 and stands over the remains of a 16th-century Franciscan convent, and its lamps reach up to 60 kilometers out to sea. The village of Sagres lies about six kilometers away. Lunch brings fresh seafood and regional wine, and the dish to try is a cataplana, named for the copper pan shaped like two hinged clamshells, which seals and steams clams or prawns with onion, peppers, tomato, garlic and white wine. In the afternoon, where it suits your party, a boat follows the limestone cliffs to sea caves and hidden coves, with green water and the cry of gulls along the rock. A walk on the coastal paths or an easy bike ride through the countryside takes its place on request. Logistics: a full day by road and boat along the western Algarve with your licensed driver-guide, second night on the Algarve.
Day Ten
Departure from Faro
Faro airport lies about 4 kilometers west of the city, so a later flight leaves the morning free for a last walk on the sand or a coffee on a terrace above the sea. United Airlines flies nonstop between Faro and Newark in season, and Air Transat flies to Toronto. VIP fast-track assistance at the airport is available by request. Travelers with more time continue into Spain, or fly on to Madeira or the Azores for an island finish. Logistics: hotel to Faro airport by private vehicle with your licensed driver-guide, at an hour to suit your flight.
What does a 10 day Portugal itinerary from Porto to the Algarve look like?
A 10 day Portugal itinerary from Porto to the Algarve gives three nights to Porto, two to the Douro Valley, two to Lisbon and two to the Algarve coast, and moves south by road the whole way. This one opens with Porto’s old center and a food day, adds Braga and Guimarães as a day out, and spends two days on the river and at a family quinta in the Douro. Lisbon brings the castle, Alfama, Belém, Sintra and Cascais. The drive south stops in Évora, and the last full day runs west along the Algarve to Cape St. Vincent.
Is 10 days enough to see Portugal from north to south?
Ten days is enough for the mainland highlights from Porto to the Algarve, as long as the route keeps to four bases and moves in one direction. This one gives every base at least two nights and places the two long drives on days six and eight. Ten days leaves out Coimbra and Aveiro in the center, a night in the Alentejo, and the islands of Madeira and the Azores. Each of those adds one to three days, and our longer Portugal routes include them.
How do you get from Lisbon to the Algarve on a private tour?
On this route a licensed driver-guide drives you from Lisbon to the Algarve by road through the Alentejo, with Évora as the stop for lunch and a guided visit. Lisbon to Évora takes about 1 hour 35 minutes, and Évora to the Algarve coast about 2 hours 30 minutes, so the day carries about four hours of driving in all. Your luggage stays in the car, and the coast comes into view in the late afternoon.
Ten days north to south, or another Portugal route?
This route suits American travelers who want the whole mainland, from the Douro vineyards to the Algarve cliffs, in ten days and four hotels. Another route serves you better in four cases.
Our other ten-day route, the 10-day Active Portugal journey, follows the same north-to-south line with Braga, Guimarães and two Douro nights, then drives from Lisbon straight to the Algarve. It puts more walking and paddling into the trip, with Lamego, river and e-bike options in the Douro and the Seven Hanging Valleys cliff trail. Choose it for an active Douro and a cliff walk. Choose this one for the Porto food day and for Évora and the Alentejo on the road south.
If wine matters more than the beach, the 9-day Portugal food and wine tour spends nine days in two hotels, Porto and Lisbon, with a Douro quinta day, a Porto cooking class and no Algarve. With one week, the 7-day Portugal private tour covers Lisbon, Sintra, Évora, Porto and the Douro from two bases.
With twelve days, our team adds two nights in the Alentejo to this route on request. With two weeks, the 14-day Portugal tour with Madeira adds a flight from Faro to Madeira. Every Portugal route sits on our Portugal destination page.
Who this journey suits
First-time visitors who want the north, Lisbon and the south on one trip, with four hotels and no one-night stops.
Couples who want wine country first and the sea last, with two nights at a Douro hotel among the vines and two on the Algarve coast.
Families with teenage or adult children, since the days mix castles, a spiral well, boats, a funicular and plenty of food.
Food and wine travelers who also want the coast, with a Porto food day, a family quinta, an Alentejo lunch and a cataplana by the sea.
Travelers flying home from the south, or continuing to Spain, Madeira or the Azores after Faro.
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 walking parts of the day start where the car drops you, from the castle walls above Alfama to the gate of Quinta da Regaleira. On day six she shapes the afternoon around your arrival from the Douro, and on day seven she sets the order of the well, the gardens and the old town of Sintra to suit the season and your pace.
What the 10-day journey costs and what it includes
This 10-day journey starts from $8,840 per person, double occupancy. The from-price covers nine 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 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 added private experiences such as a cooking class with a chef in Porto, a boat on the Douro, a quinta lunch, a boat to the Algarve sea caves, a bike ride inland or a fado evening in Lisbon. Our team prices each journey to your dates and party.
When the route looks close to the trip you have in mind, speak with our team about your dates, your party and the pace you want.
Questions about the 10-day Portugal tour from Porto to the Algarve
What does the 10-day Portugal route leave out?
The route leaves out central Portugal between the Douro and Lisbon, including Coimbra, Aveiro, Óbidos and Tomar, because the transfer on day six runs straight down the motorway. It also leaves out a night in the Alentejo, the eastern Algarve and the islands of Madeira and the Azores. Each of those fits with one to three more days. Coimbra and its university library make a natural stop on day six on request, and the transfer then takes most of the day. A night in Évora turns the Alentejo crossing into a slower stay, and our 12-day Portugal route builds two such nights in. Our 14-day route with Madeira adds a flight from Faro to the island. Our team adjusts the route as written around your interests and sends a revised plan before you commit.
When is the best time for a north-to-south Portugal trip?
April to June and September to October suit this route best, with mild days in the north and warm days on the Algarve. IPMA, Portugal’s weather institute, gives a mean daily high in April of 17.6°C (about 64°F) in Porto, 19.8°C (about 68°F) in Lisbon and 20.4°C (about 69°F) in Faro, on its 1981 to 2010 averages. In September the same three cities reach 23.4°C (about 74°F), 26.6°C (about 80°F) and 26.6°C (about 80°F). July and August bring about 24 to 25°C (about 76°F) in Porto, about 28°C (82 to 83°F) in Lisbon and about 29°C (84 to 85°F) in Faro, and our team plans the walking hours early and late in the day. September and October fall in the Douro harvest season, when the quintas pick their grapes and tread them barefoot in stone lagares.
Should we fly into Porto and home from Faro?
Yes, and the route as written does so. Porto airport, about 11 kilometers northwest of the Clérigos Tower, lists nonstop routes to New York JFK with Delta, to Boston and Newark with TAP Air Portugal and to Newark with United, plus seasonal service to Montréal and Toronto. Faro airport, about 4 kilometers west of the city, has seasonal nonstop service to Newark with United and to Toronto with Air Transat, and other routes connect through a European hub. An open-jaw ticket, into Porto and out of Faro, saves a long drive back north at the end of the trip. Schedules change by season, and our team talks through the flight options with you before fixing the direction of the route.
Why two nights in the Douro Valley instead of a day trip from Porto?
Two nights let the valley set the pace. Peso da Régua lies about 1 hour 15 minutes from Porto by road, and the quintas and Pinhão sit further upriver, so a day trip spends much of its time in the car. Sleeping in the valley gives you a trail walk and a boat on the river on the first day and a full day at a family estate on the second, with lunch and no drive back to the city. Evenings belong to the terraces and the river below your hotel. If you prefer one hotel in the north, our team turns the Douro days into day trips from Porto, and our Portugal food and wine route keeps its Douro days as day trips from Porto.
How long are the drives on the 10-day tour?
Days one, two, five and nine stay close to base, and the longer drives fall on days six and eight. Day three runs from Porto to Braga, about 45 minutes, then about 16 kilometers to Guimarães and back to Porto. Day four reaches Peso da Régua in about 1 hour 15 minutes. Day six is the longest single drive, about three and a half hours from the Douro to Lisbon, with the afternoon in the city. Sintra lies about 30 minutes from Lisbon on day seven. Day eight carries about four hours in all, about 1 hour 35 minutes to Évora and about 2 hours 30 minutes on to the Algarve coast, with lunch and a guided visit in between. Your driver plans coffee stops along the way.
Who guides and drives us on the 10-day tour?
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. In Porto, Braga, Guimarães, the Douro Valley, Évora and the Algarve, a licensed driver-guide looks after you, one person holding both licenses who drives the car and leads the visits. Every transfer runs by private vehicle for your own party, from the Porto airport pickup to the Faro airport drop-off. Our team plans the whole route, books the site entries such as Livraria Lello, and stays in contact through the trip.
How do you visit the Benagil sea cave?
By boat. Near the old fishing hamlet of Benagil, the sea has worn the Algar de Benagil from the side and from above, the only sea cave between Lagos and Albufeira to erode both ways, and sunlight falls through the hole in its roof onto the beach it hides. Licensed boat tours and guided kayak groups enter the cave. Since 2024, local rules limit how many boats go in at one time, set a maximum length for each visit and keep visitors off the sand inside. Where it suits your party, your driver-guide arranges a boat along the cliffs to Benagil and the coves around it, on day nine or on a slower day if you add one.
How much walking does the itinerary involve?
Several places on this route sit on hills or steps. Porto’s old center climbs from the Ribeira toward the cathedral and the Clérigos Tower, whose 240 steps are optional. In Braga, the Baroque stairway of Bom Jesus do Monte climbs 116 meters in 583 steps, and the funicular of 1882 runs alongside for an easier ride. Lisbon’s Alfama drops in lanes and stairways from the castle, and the Initiation Well at Quinta da Regaleira descends 27 meters by a spiral stair. Your driver drops you at the top of a quarter where the roads allow, so most walks run downhill, and your guide sets the pace to your party. Your guide is glad to advise on suitability before booking.
How do we extend the journey to Spain, Madeira or the Azores?
The route ends on the Algarve, the region of Portugal along the southern border with Spain, and our team extends it into Andalusia, Madrid or Barcelona for a few days or several weeks. Madeira and the Azores add an island finish: our 14-day route with Madeira flies from Faro to Funchal, and our Azores routes pair Lisbon with the islands. An extension changes the departure airport and sometimes the order of the last nights, and our team sends a revised day-by-day plan and price before you commit.
Who do we contact if something goes wrong or we want a change?
Your planner designs your journey with you and stays in touch after you land. For the fastest response at any hour, message your private WhatsApp group, where our 24/7 support team works alongside Rachel or Dan. Because we begin no more than five journeys per country each week, peak spring and fall dates fill early, and that limit is what lets us stay this close to every trip.
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.
Douro Valley
Boutique: Quinta do Vallado Wine Hotel. An 18th-century house once owned by Dona Antónia Ferreira, plus a modern schist building among vineyards.
Five-star: Six Senses Douro Valley. A restored 19th-century manor near Lamego, above Douro vine terraces, with a large spa.
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.
Algarve
Boutique: Octant Praia Verde. A hotel in the pine woods of the eastern Algarve, with a boardwalk to Praia Verde beach.
Five-star: Vila Vita Parc. A clifftop resort at Porches on more than 50 acres of gardens, with its own beach below.
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