Curated Itinerary
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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From Historic Centre of Guimarães – Virtual Tour 360° to Historic Centre of Évora, in the order we curated them.
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Historic Centre of Guimarães – Virtual Tour 360°
The city where the Portuguese nation was born — Guimarães (Minho, northern Portugal) was the seat of the County of Portucale, the proto-Portuguese state, and…
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…
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…
Sé Velha de Coimbra (1184): the fortress-cathedral where Portugal’s second king was crowned – Virtual Tour 360°
The fortress-cathedral of Coimbra, begun in the twelfth century after the battle of Ourique: Romanesque, crenellated, and built to be defended as much as prayed in.
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…
Batalha Monastery – Virtual Tour 360°
A vow made at the Battle of Aljubarrota produced this Dominican monastery, where Gothic restraint gives way to Manueline maritime carving and the Unfinished Chapels remain open to the sky.
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…
Cultural Landscape of Sintra – Virtual Tour 360°
The most extravagant royal playground in Europe and one of the most romantically exotic cultural landscapes in any country — Sintra, a mountain town 40…
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…
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…
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It opens in the Google Maps app with every stop already loaded, in the order we put them in. From there the route is yours: pick how you travel — on foot, by bike, by public transport or by car — change where you start and where you end, drag the stops into a different order, and add places of your own along the way.