Lisboa Region

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Lisboa Region

Cascais Dream Guincho Tourism in the Country / Country Houses Address: Rua do Alto do Arneiro 652755-150 AlcabidecheCascaisLisboa Telephone: +351 935 554 343 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.dreamguincho.pt

Lisboa Region

Setúbal Discover The Nature - Outdoor Events Address: Rua Cassiano Branco, Lote 9462975-261 Quinta do Conde Telephone: +351 925 437 916 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.discoverthenature.com

Sintra Trail With Us Address: Sintra Telephone: +351 968 765 809 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.trailwithus.com

Lisboa Region

Cascais Praia Grande do Guincho Address: Guincho - Cascais Characteristics and Services: Outdoor parking; Bar; Average seawater temperature in summer (ºC): 17-19 ºC; Restaurant; Security or Surveillance; Sunshade rental; Showers; Activities: Surfing; Windsurfing; Bodyboard;

Part of the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, Guincho Beach is endowed with a surrounding landscape of great beauty in which the white sand dunes contrast with the deep tones of the Serra de Sintra hills, looming in the background.

Given both its strong (...)

Lisboa Region

Lisboa IRONMAN 70.3 Portugal Sport Contacts Cascais Website: https://www.ironman.com/im703-cascais Start Date: 2021-10-23 End Date: 2021-10-23 IRONMAN 70.3 will take place in Cascais, along the Atlantic coast. Don’t miss it!This competition, which includes swimming, cycling and running, is part of the world's largest triathlon organization and offers 50 qualifying slots for the IRONMAN (...)

Centro de Portugal

Sobral de Monte Agraço Forte de Alqueidão Address: Alqueidão 2590-206 Sobral de Monte Agraço The fort of Alqueidão is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful viewpoints in the region. From here, there is a breathtaking view over the whole of the Atlantic coastline (the Berlengas islands, Serra de Sintra, Serra da Arrábida, the River Tagus (...)

Lisboa Region

Sintra Castelo dos Mouros - Sintra Chalet da Condessa d´Edla Address: Castelo dos Mouros 2710-609 Sintra Address: Estrada da Pena2710-609 Sintra Telephone: +351 21 923 73 00 Fax: +351 21 923 73 50 Telephone: +351 21 923 73 00 Fax: +351 21 923 73 50 E-mail: [email protected] Website: E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.parquesdesintra.pt http://www.parquesdesintra.pt Timetable: Timetable: Winter (25 October-1 March): 10am–6pm (Last ticket 5pm); Winter (25 October/1 March): 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. (last ticket 5 Summer (2 March-24 October) 9.30am–8pm (Last ticket 7pm).; p.m.); Characteristics and Services: Summer (2 March/24 October) 9:30 a.m.- 8 p.m. (last ticket 7 Guided Tours; Restaurant; Shops; Cafeteria; p.m.).; Payments: Other informations: Credit cards accepted; Guided tours are available for people with special needs, by prior appointment. Winding over two ridges of the Serra de Sintra, the Moorish Castle dates back to the early days of the Moorish occupation of The Pena Park is accessible to tourists since it has support the Peninsula - the 8th Century.After various attempts it was facilities for people with impaired mobility. There is the Swiss- definitively taken by Dom Afonso Henriques in 1147, and there Trac device, which can be coupled to manual wheelchairs, and (...) an accessible electric bus that takes you to the various points of interest. Characteristics and Services: Convento dos Capuchos - Sintra Guided Tours; Address: Serra de Sintra Accessibility: Telephone: +351 21 923 73 00 Fax: +351 21 923 73 50 Disabled access; Reserved parking spaces; Accessible route to E-mail: [email protected] Website: the entrance: Total; Accessible entrance: Total; Reception area http://www.parquesdesintra.pt suitable for people with special needs; Accessible circulation inside: Partial; Accessible areas/services: Toilets; Care skills: Timetable: Hearing impairment, Motor disability; Support products/services Winter (25 October-1 March): 10am–6pm (Last ticket 5pm); available: Hearing impairment, Motor disability; Summer (2 March - 24 October) 9.30am–8pm (Last ticket 7pm).; Characteristics and Services: Guided Tours; Restaurant; Shops; Cafeteria; Chalet of the Countess of EdlaAfter major restoration works in Payments: the wake of a fire that partially destroyed it, this building was Credit cards accepted; opened to the public. It preserves the memory of one of the great love stories of Portuguese history and is included in (...) Capuchos Convent, also known as Santa Cruz or the Cork Convent, was built in 1560 by Dom Álvaro de Castro, in fulfilment Palácio e Parque de Monserrate of a vow by his father, Dom João de Castro, who was Viceroy of Address: Estrada de Monserrate 2710-405 Sintra India. Its tiny cells, little chapel, refectory and other (...) Telephone: +351 21 923 73 00 Fax: +351 21 923 73 50 E-mail: [email protected] Website: Palácio Nacional da Pena http://www.parquesdesintra.pt Address: Estrada da Pena 2710-609 Sintra

2013 Turismo de Portugal. All rights reserved. 5/15 [email protected] Telephone: +351 21 923 73 00 Fax: +351 21 923 73 50 Timetable: E-mail: [email protected] Website: Winter (25 October to 1March): 10am-6.00pm (last ticket at http://www.parquesdesintra.pt 5.00pm); Timetable: Winter (25 October to 1March): 10am-6.00pm (last ticket at Summer (2 March to 25 october): 10am-7pm (last ticket at 5.00pm); 6.15pm).; Summer (2 March to 25 october): 10am-7pm (last ticket at Other informations: 6.15pm).; Guided tours are available for people with special needs, by prior Other informations: appointment. Wheelchair users cannot enter the Pena Palace because there are a number of steps along the route. Guided tours are Parques de Sintra ensures accessibility for tourists by providing available for people with special needs, by prior appointment. support facilities for people with impaired mobility. There is the Swiss-Trac system, which can be coupled to manual wheelchairs, Pena Park is accessible and has various facilities to help people and an accessible electric bus that takes you to the various with impaired mobility, including manual wheelchairs to which a points of interest. traction device can be fitted, and an accessible bus that covers Characteristics and Services: the route up to the Palace. Shops; Guided Tours; Cafeteria; Restaurant; Payments: Characteristics and Services: Credit cards accepted; Shops; Guided Tours; Cafeteria; Restaurant; Accessibility: Payments: Reserved parking spaces; Accessible route to the entrance: Credit cards accepted; Partial; Accessible entrance: Total; Reception area suitable for Accessibility: people with special needs; Accessible circulation inside: Partial; Reserved parking spaces; Accessible route to the entrance: Accessible areas/services: Shop, Bar/Café, Toilets; Accessible Partial; Reception area suitable for people with special needs; information: Items for tactile exploration; Care skills: Hearing Accessible areas/services: Shop, Bar/Café, Toilets; Care skills: impairment, Motor disability; Support products/services Hearing impairment, Motor disability; Support products/services available: Visual impairment, Hearing impairment, Motor available: Visual impairment, Hearing impairment, Motor disability, Mental disability; disability, Mental disability; Park and Palace of Monserrate This fantastic Romantic park was Pena National Palace The fantastic Palácio da Pena is one of the created by William Beckford, who fell in love with the Serra de best examples of 19th-century Romantic revivalism in Sintra.The park and palace of Monserrate, formerly a farm with Portugal.Situated at the top of the Monte da Pena, the palace fruit orchards and crop fields, were first imagined by (...) was built on the site of an old monastery belonging to the Order of (...)

New World Heritage Sites in Portugal Royal Building of Mafra and Sanctuary of Bom Jesus in Braga added to the World Cultural Heritage listAt the last meeting of the World Heritage Committee, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Portuguese list of UNESCO’s Cultural Heritage sites added two (...)

Cabo da Roca Other informations: Cabo da Roca

If you go to Sintra, don’t miss the chance to visit the westernmost point of mainland Europe, Cabo da Roca.Located at latitude 38º 47´north and longitude 9º 30´west, Cabo da Roca is an important coordinate for those sailing along the coast, as (...)

Lisboa Region

Sintra The Cultural Landscape of Sintra Other informations: The Cultural Landscape of Sintra;

In 1995, Sintra gained the UNESCO Cultural Landscape classification. The town and the northern slope of the Serra de Sintra with its wonderful natural characteristics and impressive historic landmarks were thus accepted as worthy of world heritage (...)

Green Portugal Portugal, road trips

Portugal by... Condé Nast TravelerWild, like it was in the Portugal by... Condé Nast TravelerAn unforgivable failure for any beginning. Portuguese nature reserves can congratulate traveller is to believe that magic can only be found in the most themselves for keeping the essence of the Iberian Peninsula and remote places. It is no overstatement to say that Portugal is one the volcanic islands of the Atlantic intact. It’s a journey through of the world’s most wonderful destinations and, (...) (...)

Viewpoints: the most beautiful views in Portugal The Portuguese Menu: fish, coriander and fantasy Portugal by... Condé Nast TravelerPortugal treats you to Portugal by... Condé Nast TravelerPortugal faces the Atlantic, countless landscapes and viewpoints. From the peaceful Lisbon smells of the Atlantic, breathes the Atlantic, has an Atlantic viewpoints to the wild horizons of the Portuguese coast, these soul... but its cuisine is more Mediterranean than it seems. A landscapes will enthral you at first sight. Portugal offers itself paradox! The three essentials of the Portuguese diet are (...) (...)

Lisboa Region

Costa de Caparica Paisagem Protegida da Arriba Fóssil da Costa de Caparica E-mail: [email protected] Website: https://natural.pt/protect ed-areas/paisagem-protegida-arriba-fossil-costa-caparica ?locale=pt;https://natural.pt/protected-areas/paisagem- protegida-arriba-fossil-costa-caparica?locale=en Contacts Head-office:Centro de Interpretação da Mata dos MedosEstrada Florestal da Fonte da Telha2825-494 COSTA DA CAPARICATelefone: +351 212 918 270 Characteristics and Services: Signposted routes; Park area: 1.594 ha.; Altitude: Máx - 111m; min - 0m;

The fossil cliff is constituted by a succession of sedimentary rock strata, one of the most important examples of its kind in Western Europe, whose origin dates back to the Pliocene period, around 10 million years ago. At that time, the Sea reached (...)

Sintra Parque Natural de Sintra-Cascais E-mail: [email protected] Website: https://natural.pt/protecte d-areas/parque-natural-sintra-cascais?locale=pt;https://n atural.pt/protected-areas/parque-natural-sintra- cascais?locale=en Contacts Head-office:Quinta dos Plátanos - Av. Barão Almeida Santos, 10-122710-525 SINTRATel.: +351 21 924 72 00

Characteristics and Services: Signposted routes; Park area: 14.583 ha; Altitude: Máx: 528 m; min: 0 m;

The westernmost point of the European continent, was considered in antiquity to be the place where "the land ends and the sea begins" - the Cabo da Roca is one of the most spectacular locations in the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park. Its vertical cliffs (...)

Lisboa Region Lisbon is Portugal's capital and the hub of a multifaceted area that appeals to different tastes and senses.In a city that has been influenced by many different far-off cultures over time, there is still a village feel in each historic (...)

Lisboa Region

Sintra Quinta da Regaleira Address: Quinta da Regaleira 2710-567 Sintra Telephone: +351 96 461 21 54 Fax: +351 21 923 08 96 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.regaleira.pt

3 Days in Portugal Cycling

In the extreme southwest of Europe, Portugal is a unique country Exploring Portugal by bike is a unique experience. You can take that justifies a delayed visit. Bathed by the Atlantic Ocean, it is a it at your own pace, sensing the aromas and sounds that might country known for its beaches and the practice of outdoor otherwise pass unnoticed. Whether you choose the sea at your activities and the fact that it has a good climate, with (...) side, to go up and down mountains, or to meander through the (...) Follow the trail… Find the ideal setting to experience something Honeymoon Ideas special.Discovering a place by bicycle is a unique experience. After the wedding ceremony and a wonderful reception, comes And in Portugal there are a number of routes and trails, many of the most-awaited moment: your honeymoon, a trip for you both them located in protected areas, that allow you to discover very to relax and celebrate your love for each other. Discover some of different (...) the most romantic and inspiring places in Portugal.Close to (...)

Natural parks and reserves The cork You will find scattered around the country places of preserved beauty, inhabited by a wide diversity of species of flora and Very environment friendly. Natural and soft, keeps the cool and fauna, where Man and Nature live in perfect harmony. Protected also the warmth when it is necessary, and it is used to create a in order to maintain their biodiversity, many of these areas (...) comfortable and welcoming ambiance. Cork is one of the most characteristic natural products of Portugal and is part of (...) Walking With its mild year-round climate, walking around Portugal is one of the best ways to find those nooks and crannies that otherwise you would never get to know.Around city streets, crossing fields or strolling along the beach, walking tours could have (...)

Centro de Portugal

Coimbra Visit to Coimbra On the banks of the river Mondego, Coimbra is famous for its University, the oldest in Portugal and one of the oldest in Europe, which over time has shaped its image to become "the city of students". We begin this visit, precisely at the (...)

Lisboa Region

Beach-going in Lisbon Lisbon through the eyes of... Lis Watkins

Situated at the mouth of the River Tagus where it meets the Lis Watkins accepted the invitation with a lot of enthusiasm as Ocean, Lisbon is a city with a strong connection to the sea, and she had never been in Lisbon even though she greatly enjoyed is the only European capital with Atlantic beaches.It’s essential, seeing pictures of the streets, colourful houses and tiles, brought therefore, to take a walk along the coast or spend a (...) by friends who had been to Portugal. Croydon, the part (...)

Web Summit - What to do near Lisbon? In 2021, From November 1st to 4th, Portugal will be hosting the Web Summit, one of the top events on the technology calendar, where new trends and innovative projects are unveiled. It is an excellent opportunity to get to know Lisbon and places (...)

2013 Turismo de Portugal. All rights reserved. 13/15 [email protected] Lisboa Lisbon through the eyes of... José Louro The Portuguese host of the Sketch Tour Portugal in Lisbon was José Louro. Although initially worried about meeting certain expectations Lis Watkins might have had of Lisbon, the feeling of surprise while discovering the city was mutual as it is (...)

Sintra Sintra - Accessible Itinerary Close to Lisbon, Sintra is a must-visit place in any tourist programme because of its historical and cultural value and the striking beauty of a landscape that has been classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.In the town centre you can take an (...)

Alentejo

Grândola World Skills, Lda Address: Rua D. Nuno Álvares Pereira, 163-B, Loja 2. 4750-239 Grândola Telephone: +351 927 403 942 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.grekking.com

Lisboa Region

Lisboa No Map Tours Táxis Calisto Ribeiro Address: Rua José Leilote, 29 1900-279 Lisboa Address: Rua Gen. Silva Freire, Lt 158 - 4º A1800-210 Telephone: +351 930 548 887 Lisboa Telephone: +351 966 508 133 / 936 701 038 E-mail: [email protected] Website: https://nomaptours.com E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.t axijosequeiroz.pt.vu;http://www.facebook.com/taxijosequ eiroz