
Rock in Rio Returns to Lisbon
One of the world’s biggest music festivals, Rock in Rio, takes place once again in the Portuguese capital over two action-packed weekends on 18/19 and 25/26 June.
One of the world’s great capitals, Lisbon exudes the kind of warmth and geniality most large cities have long-since outgrown. Tourist highlights include the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon Oceanarium, historic square mile of Belém and a fascinating walk through the ancient Alfama quarter.
One of the world’s biggest music festivals, Rock in Rio, takes place once again in the Portuguese capital over two action-packed weekends on 18/19 and 25/26 June.
Roughly rectangular in shape and with a population of around ten million people, Portugal has much to offer the modern visitor – young and old alike.
One of Lisbon’s architectural treasures, the Casa dos Bicos (or House of Pointed Stones) stands just off the city’s main square, Praça do Comércio.
This grey roofless edifice is all that remains of the once magnificent Gothic-style Carmo Church, which ponders silently from its privileged vantage point overlooking Rossio Square and the rest of Lisbon‘s downtown Baixa […]
Portugal’s highly-regarded and much-savoured Pastel de Belém celebrates its 185th birthday this year, but its ingredients remain a closely guarded secret.
Put a note in your diary, June is the month of the Festas de Lisboa when the city explodes into life with merrymaking in the streets and sardines sizzling on every […]
From Atlantic-fresh fish to the wild meats of the mountains, Portuguese food is distinctive and varied with many of the most popular regional dishes having evolved from age-old recipes based […]
One of the most inventive characters of the 18th century must surely have been Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão, the Brazilian-born genius who created the earliest known flying machine he christened the […]
Nestling among vineyards and olive and cork trees, Azeitão is a pretty little town situated on the old road between Lisbon and the port city of Setúbal at the foot of the Arrábida […]
With thousands of years of history and one of the richest patrimonies in the whole of Europe, Lisbon is a city full of unique and fascinating snippets of information, so […]