Overview
Itinerary
Welcome to Porto!
At 6 pm, meet your Tour Director and travel companions for a welcome dinner at your hotel. (D)
Panoramas & Port Wine
PORTO: Follow your Local Guide for a walking tour in the city centre. Enjoy a glass of Porto. Later, relax on a river cruise and take in stunning views of the surroundings. (B)
TOUR HIGHLIGHT - LOCAL TASTES: You're invited to the home of the most internationally recognized Porto wines at the magnificent Sandeman Wine Cellars. Here, taste centuries of tradition in a glass of Port wine in the city that bears its name. Saude!
Street Art & Academic Honours
AGUEDA: Take a stroll and admire the street art
COIMBRA: Orientation walk of the University town. (B) 99mi/ 160km
TOUR HIGHLIGHT - CULTURAL GEMS: Agueda has embraced colour, fun, and street art in a fantastical and fancy-free way. Brightly coloured balloons, huge street murals, painted benches, pots filled with flowers of hot pink, red, and yellow lined all the different main streets of the town.
Culture & Bairrada Wine
COIMBRA: Enjoy a wine tasting in the Bairrada region. (B)
TOUR HIGHLIGHT - CULTURE & TRADITION: Since 1937, this unique place has produced its own sparkling wine, spirits, and Bairrada wines. You'll be dazzled by the beauty of the galleries excavated in the rock, in which the millions of aging bottles rest. The magnificent Baga room is devoted to tastings and banquets, while the museum offers 80 years of history exposed in the Bairrada room, along witha beautiful wine shop that complement your visit to one of the most emblematic spaces of Bairrada.
Panoramas & Port Wine
LISBON: Guided sightseeing includes a photo stop at Belem Tower and the Monument to the Discoveries. (B) 146mi/ 235km
TOUR HIGHLIGHT - HISTORIC SPOT: The stunning capital city of Portugal is a treasure trove of historic and architectural masterpieces. Along the banks of the River Tagus see the 16th-century Belem Tower, which served as a fortress and an embarkation point for sailors, it was their last sight of land before the start of their journey. Lisbon's impressive sculpture, the Monument to the Discoveries pays homage to great Portuguese explorers with a spectacular carved prow of an ancient ship.
Portuguese Royalties
MAFRA: guided visit of Mafra includes the Royal Palace, the convent and John V Library.
SINTRA: Free time for lunch
CASCAIS: Free time to browse
LISBON: Farewell dinner at a local restaurant. (B/D)
LOCAL FAVOURITE - HISTORY & HERITAGE: Learn about the colony of bats which have made their home behind the bookshelves of the library and that ensure its ancient books remain in pristine conditions. The bats leave their hiding spot at night to hunt insects that would otherwise damage the leather-bound spines and yellowed pages of the library's antique collection.
Safe travels until we meet again!
Your holiday ends with breakfast this morning. (B)
Trip Inclusions
- 6 Breakfasts
- 2 Dinners
- Porto Holiday Inn Porto Gaia (First-Class)
- Coimbra Vila Gale Coimbra (First-Class)
- Lisbon Lumen Lisboa (Superior First-Class)
- Airport transfers at your arrival and departure destination are not included in the price of the tour.
- Itinerary and inclusions subject to change.
- Price is for land, cruise and specified internal flights. International flights not included.
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