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Oceana P&O Cruise Ship Lisbon 2015
Oceana P&O Cruise Ship will be docking 6 times in Lisbon during this year 2015. With capacity for 2272 passengers, you will be deligthed to visit Lisbon. Check below our offer for Private Tours departing from the cruise terminal of Lisbon. {bookeo}
Azura P&O Cruise Ship Lisbon 2015
The beautiful Azura Cruise Ship from P&O Cruise line will be docking in Lisbon 9 times during 2015. With total capacity of 3597 passengers, this big cruise ship is one of the major visitors of Lisbon this year. Please check below our […]
Crystal Serenity Cruise Ship Lisbon 2015
Crystal Serenity Cruise Ship will be docked in Lisbon 5 times during this year of 2015. Started the operations in 2003, this cruise ship has been several times in Lisbon before. With capacity for 1140 passengers, this beautifil cruise will dock as following: Please […]
Celebrity Eclipse Cruise Ship Lisbon 2015
The Beautiful Celebrity Eclipse Cruise Ship will be docked in Lisbon 6 times in 2015. In the last few years, this cruise has been visiting Lisbon multiple times. Check below our offer of Private Tours directly from the Cruise Port / Terminal of Lisbon: […]
Holland America Rotterdam Cruise Ship Lisbon 2015
Holland America Rotterdam Cruise Ship will be docked in Lisbon 6 different times during 2015. With capacity for 1668 passengers, this one of the most popular cruise ships from this great cruise line. Please find below our offer for Private Tours from Lisbon Cruise Port: {bookeo}
MSC Orchestra Cruise Ship Lisbon 2015
MSC Orchestra will be docked 8 times in Lisbon during 2015. This beatiful cruise ship from MSC Cruises, was built in 2007 and can accomodate 2550 passengers in 1275 cabins. Please find below our offer for private tours around Lisbon while this cruise is docked, directly from the cruise port / terminal: {bookeo} […]
Anthem Of The Seas Cruise Ship Lisbon 2015
Anthem Of The Seas Cruise Ship from Royal Caribbean will be docked in Lisbon 9 times during 2015. Property of Royal Caribbean International Cruise Line, this brand new cruise ship (starting to operate in 2015) with capacity for 4180 passengers is top notch. Please check below our offer of Private Tours operating on all dates […]
Costa Magica Cruise Ship Lisbon 2015
Costa Magica Cruise Ship will be docked 11 times in Lisbon during 2015. With capacity for 3470 passengers, this large cruise ship from Costa Cruises is one of the most popular in Lisbon during 2015. This cruise ship starts always from Cadiz to end in Valencia Spain. Please check below our private tours departing from […]
Oriana Cruise Ship Lisbon 2015
Oriana Cruise Ship from P&O will be in Lisbon, Portugal, 14 different times during 2015. This cruise ship is one of the most popular in Lisbon, with capacity for 1928 passengers. Please find below our most popular tours that will be available from your cruise terminal in Lisbon on these dates: {bookeo}
Ventura Cruise Ship Lisbon 2015
Ventura Cruise Ship P&O will be docking in Lisbon 16 times in 2015. Ventura, with 3080 passengers capacity, launched in 2008, is one of P&O most popular and luxury cruise ships. When docking in Lisbon, you have daily tours departing from your cruise ship terminal. Please book below our most recommended tours. {bookeo}
Spend a Week in Portugal
See Portugal in one week The very title of this visit is a misnomer. It is extremely unlikely you can see all of Portugal in 1 week, only a couple of its highlights. In any case you can have an important get-away in Portugal on the off chance that you plan your time painstakingly. You […]
The Hidden Secrets of Lisbon
Lisbon is a beguiling city of slopes, tiled walkways and differing regions, for example, the medieval Bairro Alto and Moorish Alfama. The city wears its long history with pride and invites change, however Lisbon is additionally a city of mystery corners, shrouded perspectives and shrewd astonishments. Here is my run down of mystery Lisbon. […]
Cristo Rei (Christ King Statue)
Cristo Rei (Christ King Statue) in Lisbon, is among the main 10 Most Famous Jesus Statues In The World by USATODAY. The Cristo Rei statue in Lisbon is a standout amongst the most notable landmarks in Portugal’s capital city. It was propelled by the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, taking after […]
Campo Pequeno Bullring
The Campo Pequeno Bullring (Portuguese: Praça de Touros do Campo Pequeno, lit. “Little Field”) is the bull ring of Lisbon, Portugal. It is spotted in the Campo Pequeno Square, by the Avenida da República. After a significant redesign, it re-opened as a multi-occasion venue in 2006, intended to be utilized for different occasions separated from […]
Feira da Ladra (Lisbon Flea Market)
Each Tuesday and Saturday the Feira da Ladra (literal translation “the thieves market” or “flea market”) assembles several second hand venders looking to win some additional cash with garments, dishes, records, books, collectables and each sort of obsolescents. From day break to lunchtime, both novice and expert sales representatives display their stock in extemporized stands […]
Best Wine Region in The World: Portugal – Alentejo
Alentejo in Portugal was considered in 2014 the Best Wine Region in the World by UsaToday – Best10. Portugal named Best Wine Region to Visit in the World (2014). English Columbia, Chile, New Zealand, Croatia see best five completions The stops are pulled, the votes are in, and perusers of USA TODAY and 10Best have […]
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3 Days in Lisbon: The Best Guide
Portugal’s capital city is no more an under-the-radar travel destination, with its memorable excellence serving as a scenery for current workmanship, food, and boutiques Day 1 One thing strikes each first-time guest to Lisbon: It’s far excessively quiet for a capital. Individuals are in no hurry, avenues smell like vanilla baked goods on account of […]
48h in Lisbon: Will it be enough? The Insider’s Guide
The answer is no – 48h is too short for a Lisbon visit, but in case you have just two days, we have prepared an expert traveller guide with tips and tricks for your short trip to Lisbon Portugal. Portugal was a nation that in my reality had long remained solitary. For a long time […]
Lisbon Aqueduct
The Aqueduto das Águas Livres (Lisbon Aqueduct) is a nineteen km (12mi) long water channel that was implicit the eighteenth century to supply new water to the city of Lisbon. The reservoir conduit compasses the Alcântara valley with a progression of thirty-five long curves. In the early eighteenth century, clean drinking water was hard to come […]
Miradouro Portas do Sol (Viewpoint)
Set over a progression of slopes that ascent and fall far from the banks of the Tagus stream, Lisbon offers the absolute most alluring and emotional scenes which are best appreciated from its most noteworthy focuses. The delightful common setting of Portugal’s capital city has brought about a progression of porches, known as “miradouros” (viewpoints […]
Lisbon Oceanarium
Lisbon’s Oceanarium is a huge aquarium placed in the Parque das Nações (Nations’ Park), the site of the World Expo of 1998, east side of Lisbon. More than 15,000 fish and marine warm blooded animals can be seen here, including the ever mainstream sharks. At the point when the Oceanarium opened in 1998 as the centerpiece of the […]
Lisbon Synagogue
The Lisbon Synagogue, called Shaaré Tikvah (Gates of Hope) is currently the only synagogue in the city of Lisbon, in Portugal. There have been Jews in Lisbon at any rate since the Middle Ages, however the gathering persevered through a noteworthy blow in 1497, when a revelation by King Manuel I asked for Jews either […]
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Lisbon Wins: Best Cruise Destination 2014
The port of Lisbon won, surprisingly, the honor for the Best Cruise Port Europe, and the city of Lisbon, the second time, the grant for the Best Cruise Destination Europe, which were conveyed in Athens, amid the 21st World Travel Awards – Europe 2014. Notwithstanding Lisbon were additionally named for both classifications the urban areas […]
Pena National Palace – Sintra
Placed only 30min from Lisbon, The Palace of Pena in Sintra remains on a rough top, which is the second most elevated point in the Sintra slopes (the main spot higher than the royal residence itself is the Cruz Alta, 528 meters above ocean level). The castle is arranged in the eastern piece of the […]
Padrao dos Descobrimentos (Discovery Monument)
The Padrao dos Descobrimentos (Discovery Monument) was inherent honor of Henry the Navigator, who was instrumental in the achievement of the Portuguese investigations amid the fifteenth century, a period now known as the Age of Discoveries. The Age of Discoveries began in 1415 with the catch of the North African city of Ceuta by the Portuguese […]
Mosteiro dos Jeronimos (Hieronymites Monastery)
The Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Hieronymites Monastery) is a religious community inherent the early sixteenth century in a Portuguese variation of the Gothic style. It is viewed as one of Lisbon’s most grand structures. Soon after the reappearance of Vasco da Gama from India, King Manuel I requested the development of a church and house for the […]
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Praca do Comercio (Commerce Square)
The Praça do Comércio (Commerce Square) was the centerpiece of the remaking that occurred after the seismic tremor of 1755 had decreased Lisbon to rubble. Its primary fascination is a momentous equestrian statue of King José I. Throughout the most recent hundreds of years various parades, merriments, shows and even executions have occurred here. The […]
Carmo Convent Ruins
The remnants of this Gothic church are reminiscent indications of the obliteration left by the 1755 seismic tremor. At the time of the seismic tremor it was the biggest church in Lisbon, yet today the roofless nave open to the sky is all that remaining parts of the curves and rubble that collapsed on the […]
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Sao Roque Church
The Igreja de São Roque (Church of Saint Roch) in Lisbon was the most punctual Jesuit church in the Portuguese world, and one of the first Jesuit houses of worship anyplace. It served as the Society’s home church in Portugal for more than 200 years, prior to the Jesuits were removed from that nation. After […]
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Museu do Azulejo (National Tile Museum)
The National Azulejo (tile) Museum showcases the advancement of azulejos, or artistic tiles, in Portugal through the hundreds of years. The radiant gathering is housed in the fifteenth-century Madre de Deus religious circle. Of Moorish cause, azulejos are painted or varnished artistic tiles collected to structure geometric shapes, scenes or figures. This procedure is profoundly […]
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European Wine City 2015 is Portuguese!
European Wine City 2015 is Portuguese! The President of Receving, Pietro Iadanza, declared on November 24th in the city of Jerez, the declaration of the Portuguese town of Reguengos de Monsaraz as European Wine City 2015. Amid the declaration, the Mayor of Jerez, María José García-Pelayo, the General Secretary of the European Network of Wine […]
Best Castle in Europe 2015 – Pena Palace – Sintra
In 2015, EBD considered Pena Palace in Sintra (Lisbon – Portugal), the Most Beautiful Castle in Europe. Found in the Sintra slopes, the Park and Palace of Pena are the tree grown foods of King Ferdinand II’s inventive virtuoso and the best outflow of nineteenth century sentimentalism in Portugal, meaning clear impacts from the Manueline […]
Gulbenkian Museum
The Gulbenkian Museum is an extraordinary exhibition hall that shows craftsmanship from 2000 BC to the early twentieth century. The accumulation was given by Calouste Gulbenkian, a humanitarian and benefactor of expressions of the human experience of Armenian drop. In his last will Calouste Gulbenkian passed on the Portuguese state with his fortune and his […]
Castelo Sao Jorge (St Jorge Castle)
The Castelo de São Jorge (St Jorge Castle) is a medieval castle located in Alfama, the most established neighborhood in Lisbon. For a considerable length of time, the castle was the principle living arrangement of Portugal’s rulers. The Castelo de São Jorge is deliberately situated on top of the most astounding slope in Lisbon. Indeed before the […]
Jewish Memorial
The Lisbon Jewish Memorial stands on the corner of Rossio Square with Sao Domingos Church, in focal downtown, initiated in 2008 in memory of the Jewish Massacre of 1506 that happenned here in this square. It is evaluated that somewhere around 2,000 and 4,000 Jews who had been compelled to change over were executed here […]
Rossio Square
Rossio is the liveliest square in the city, where individuals stop to sit and unwind, or for a beverage at the few barometrical bistros with open air sitting (the most famous is the workmanship deco Cafe Nicola on the western side). Authoritatively named Praça Dom Pedro IV, this square has been known as Rossio (signifying […]
Sintra – Lisbon
Located just 20 minutes from Lisbon, Sintra’s rich slopes and valleys were previously the mid year habitation of Portuguese lords and privileged people, its late medieval castle the best interpretation of regal riches and influence. In the eighteenth and nineteenth hundreds of years English explorers, writers, and essayists including an energetic Lord Byron—were drawn by […]
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Torre de Belem (Belem Tower)
The Torre de Belém (Belem Tower) is without a doubt Lisbon’s most notable milestone. The tower was inherent the sixteenth century in the Tagus waterway to control the passageway to the city from the ocean. The thought to construct a stronghold close Belém was dispatched in the fifteenth century by ruler John II, who charged […]
Lisbon Cathedral
Lisbon Cathedral (Sé de Lisboa) is a grave Romanesque building with some fascinating treasures inside. It is one of the most established structures in the city, initially built in the twelfth century soon after the reconquest of the city. The cathedral, with its solid Romanesque towers, is one of the Lisbon’s most famous points of […]
New York Times: 52 Places to Go in 2015 – Alentejo – Portugal
New York Times just released: 52 Places to Go in 2015 Alentejo in Portugal is mentioned on place 38 as one must-visit places for 2015! The region famous for the cork and some of the best wines in Europe, is featured in this article. Let’s see what they say: Bored With Bordeaux? Tired of Tuscany? […]
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The world’s greatest wine region? Douro Valley
LISBON, Portugal — The world’s greatest wine region? If you’re thinking Bordeaux, Burgundy or Napa Valley, it may be time to think again. Wines from Portugal’s Douro Valley claimed three of the top four places in Wine Spectator’s 2014 top 100 ranking — including the No. 1 spot awarded to Dow’s 2011 Vintage Port. “It’s […]
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Portugal – The Pioneer of Globalization
Want to know how big was the Portuguese Empire, that started more than 500 years ago? Check the map and be surprised to see where the Portuguese were sailing! Europe’s exploration of the world begins in the 15th century, pioneered by Portugal. The Portuguese sailors are under the control of Henry, one of the sons […]
Lisbon, Portugal review by John Malkovich
John Malkovich opinion about Lisbon, Portugal. The famous actor visits Portugal often since his movie “The Convent” with Catherine Deneuve and shares his passion for Lisbon on this short video. John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor, producer, director, and fashion designer. Over the last 30 years of his career, Malkovich […]
The Oldest Pastries in Sintra – Sapa since 1756
Sintra’s Traditional Cakes Small cakes, made with fresh cow cheese, eggs, sugar, flour and aromatized with cinnamon. The Queijada’s origin can be traced to the XIII century. However, it is during the romantic XIX century that this cake became famous. We know the ingredients, but the proportions are a very well kept secret, transmitted during […]
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