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Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Lisbon
Best time to visit: March-May, Sept-Oct
Cost: $
- Monument on the bank of the Tagus river estuary, in Lisbon
- Located along the river where ships departed to explore and trade with India and the Orient, the monument celebrates the Portuguese Age of Discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries
São Bento Railway Station, Porto
Best time to visit: May-Sept
Cost: $
- 20th-century railway terminal located in the Historic Centre of Porto
- This building was constructed over a number of years, starting in 1904
- The large panels of azulejo tile were completed in 1916
- The murals represent moments in the country's history and the multicolored panels depict rural scenes showing the people of various regions
Praia da Marinha - Arcos e Algares Naturais - Praia da Morena
Walk difficulty: Moderate
Best time to visit: June, Sept
Cost: $
- One of the most emblematic beaches of Portugal with a hot-summer Mediterranean climate, located on the Atlantic coast in Caramujeira,
- The beach itself is fairly small and sandy, and orange limestone cliffs border it
- The beach also has some difficulty to get there, it is a little off the main road and the foot path takes a sharp descent downward
#14 in Best Beaches in the World
Cabo da Roca - Praia da Ursa, Parque Natural de Sintra-Cascais
Walk difficulty: Moderate
Best time to visit: March-May, Sept-Oct
Cost: $
- Cabo da Roca, or Cape Roca is a cape which forms the westernmost point of the Sintra Mountain Range
- Notably the point includes a lighthouse that started operation in 1772
- It was the first new purpose-built lighthouse to be constructed in the country; the older lighthouses in existence at that time were constructed on existing platforms or from pre-existing beacons
Rota de Xertelo e as 7 Lagoas, Peneda-Gerês National Park
Walk difficulty: Moderate
Best time to visit: May-Sept
Cost: $
- Park created in 1971, it is the oldest protected area and the only national park in Portugal
- It is one of the last strongholds of the typical Atlantic European flora of Portugal, contrasting with an evolving Mediterranean biome
Quinta da Regaleira
Best time to visit: March-May, Sept-Oct
Cost: $
- Quinta located near the historic centre of Sintra
- The property consists of a Romantic palace and chapel, and a park that features lakes, grottoes, wells, benches, fountains, and a vast array of exquisite constructions
Park and National Palace of Pena
Best time to visit: March-May, Sept-Oct
Cost: $
- Romanticist castle in Sintra, on the Portuguese Riviera
- The castle stands on the top of a hill in the Sintra Mountains, and on a clear day it can be easily seen from Lisbon
- It is a national monument and constitutes one of the major expressions of 19th-century Romanticism in the world
Belém Tower
Best time to visit: March-May, Sept-Oct
Cost: $
- 16th-century fortification located in Lisbon that served as a point of embarkation and disembarkation for Portuguese explorers and as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon
- It was built during the height of the Portuguese Renaissance, and is a prominent example of the Portuguese Manueline style, but it also incorporates hints of other architectural styles
- The structure was built from lioz limestone and is composed of a bastion and a 30-metre (100 ft) four-story tower
Jerónimos Monastery
Best time to visit: March-May, Sept-Oct
Cost: $
- Former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome near the Tagus river in Lisbon
- It became the necropolis of the Portuguese royal dynasty of Aviz in the 16th century but was secularized in 1833 by state decree and its ownership transferred to a charitable institution
- The Jerónimos Monastery is one of the most prominent examples of the late Portuguese Gothic Manueline style of architecture in Lisbon
- It was erected in the early 1500s near the launch point of Vasco da Gama's first journey, and its construction funded by a tax on the profits of the yearly Portuguese India Armadas
São Jorge Castle
Best time to visit: March-May, Sept-Oct
Cost: $
- Historic castle in Lisbon, located in the freguesia of Santa Maria Maior
- Human occupation of the castle hill dates to at least the 8th century BC, while the oldest fortifications on the site date from the 2nd century BC
- The hill on which Saint George's Castle stands has played an important part in the history of Lisbon, having served as the location of fortifications occupied successively by Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, and Moors, before its conquest by the Portuguese in the 1147 Siege of Lisbon
Livraria Lello
Best time to visit: May-Sept
Cost: $
- Opened in 1881, the Livraria Lello & Irmão, is one of the oldest bookstores in Portugal and frequently rated among the top bookstores in the world, due to its architectural beauty
Dom Luís I Bridge
Best time to visit: May-Sept
Cost: $
- Double-deck metal arch bridge that spans the River Douro between the cities of Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia
- At its construction, it was the longest bridge of its type in the world
Santa Justa Lift
Best time to visit: March-May, Sept-Oct
Cost: $
- Elevator, or lift, in the historic center of Lisbon
- Among the urban lifts in the city, Santa Justa is the only remaining vertical (conventional) one
- Others are actually funicular railways, and the other lift constructed around the same time, the Elevator of São Julião, has since been demolished