How To Use This E-Book

Getting around the e-book

This Insight Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration for your visit to Portugal, as well as comprehensive planning advice to make sure you have the best travel experience. The guide begins with our selection of Top Attractions, as well as our Editor’s Choice categories of activies and experiences. Detailed features on history, people and culture paint a vivid portrait of contemporary life in Portugal. The extensive Places chapters give a complete guide to all the sights and areas worth visiting. The Travel Tips provide full information on getting around, hotels, activities from to culture to shopping to sport, plus a wealth of practical information to help you plan your trip.

In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

Maps

All key attractions and sights in Portugal are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

Images

You’ll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Portugal. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.

About Insight Guides

Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

Insight Guides are written by local authors who use their on-the-ground experience to provide the very latest information; their local expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide to you the best places to stay and eat, so you can be confident that when we say a restaurant or hotel is special, we really mean it.

Like all Insight Guides, this e-book contains hundreds of beautiful photographs to inspire and inform your travel. We commission most of our own photography, and we strive to capture the essence of a destination using original images that you won’t find anywhere else.

© 2014 Apa Publications (UK) Ltd

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Table of Contents

How To Use This E-Book

Portugal’s Top 10 Attractions

Editor’s Choice

Introduction: Where Land Ends and Sea Begins

The Portuguese

Decisive Dates

Ancient Lusitania

A Nation is Born

The English Connection

Empire Building

The Conquerors are Conquered

Revolution and Evolution

Saints, Miracles and Shrines

Travellers’ Tales

Fado

Portuguese Food

Wines of Portugal

Insight: Festivals for all Seasons

Portuguese Architecture

Portuguese Art Through the Ages

Pousadas and Manor Houses

Natural Portugal

Introduction: Places

Lisbon

Insight: Azulejos: A National Emblem

Estoril and Cascais

Sintra

Setúbal and the Arrábida Peninsula

Algarve

Évora and Alentejo

Insight: Preserving Arts and Crafts

Estremadura and Ribatejo

Coimbra

Side Trips from Coimbra

Beira Alta and Beira Baixa

Porto

The Douro Valley

Insight: Port Wine, The Douro’s Treasure

Costa Verde and the Minho

Trás-os-Montes

Madeira

The Azores

Transport

Accommodation

Eating Out

Activities

A-Z: A Handy Summary of Practical Information

Understanding the Language

Further Reading