A September Week in Portugal: Ten Heritage Sites

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A September Week in Portugal: Ten Heritage Sites

Travel tips from CHOIn September, the doors that are usually shut openFor one long weekend every September, some fifty European […]

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Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte — Braga

Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte — Braga

Rising 116 metres above Braga, the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte is one of the great pilgrimage landscapes of Europe — a celebrated Baroque staircase…

Dwell ~90min

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Historic Centre of Porto – Virtual Tour 360°

Historic Centre of Porto – Virtual Tour 360°

The city that named a country and a wine — Porto (Portus Cale, the “harbour on the Cale River” from which “Portugal” derives) grew on the granite hills above…

Dwell ~240min

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Convent of Christ in Tomar

Convent of Christ in Tomar

The most architecturally layered monument in Portugal and the great surviving seat of the Orders of Chivalry that powered the Portuguese Age of Discovery…

Dwell ~120min

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Batalha Monastery – Virtual Tour 360°

Batalha Monastery – Virtual Tour 360°

The most important Gothic building in Portugal — a Dominican monastery built as a vow by King João I to commemorate his decisive victory at the Battle of…

Dwell ~90min

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Monastery of Alcobaça

Monastery of Alcobaça

Portugal’s most moving Gothic church and the royal mausoleum of the first dynasty of Portuguese kings — the Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Alcobaça, founded in…

Dwell ~90min

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Jerónimos Monastery — view

Jerónimos Monastery

A Manueline masterpiece in Lisbon, this early 16th-century monastery became the royal necropolis of Portugal's Aviz dynasty and now houses explorer Vasco…

Dwell ~120min

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Historic Centre of Évora

Historic Centre of Évora

The most completely preserved historic city in Portugal south of the Tagus — Évora (Roman Liberalitas Iulia, “Generosity of Julius”, a municipium from the…

Dwell ~180min

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