Portugal - guidebooks, guides, books

Travel guidebooks, which may be useful for your holidays. They are in english, are sold for very good prices and are available all around the world.

We bring you - here - links to more information you should know before your journey.

• Portugal - weather forecast
• Portugal - transport and timetables

You can go to many places here - with organized trips. But you should know, what are the best places. Here is our recommendation.

• Lisbon (national capital - city of the seven hills)
• Aveiro - city (canals + bridges + painted boats - moliceiros)
• Porto (city center - UNESCO + Port Wine Cellars + Palácio de Cristal)
• Peneda-Gerês National Park
• Cabo da Roca - westernmost point of the European continent
• Algarve region (beaches + history in Lagos city)
• Madeira - the island of eternal spring

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: República Portuguesa), is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east. The Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira are part of Portugal. The land within the borders of today's Portuguese Republic has been continuously settled since prehistoric times. In 29 B.C. the territory was occupied by the Gallaeci and the Lusitanians when it was integrated in the Roman Empire as the provinces of Lusitania and part of Gallaecia. Roman settlers strongly influenced Portuguese culture, particularly the Portuguese language, mostly derived from Latin. In the 5th century, after the fall of the Roman empire, it was occupied by several Germanic peoples, mainly the Suevi and the Visigoths. In the early 8th century Muslim Moors conquered those Christian kingdoms, occupying most of the Iberian Peninsula. During the Christian Reconquista (English: Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula), the County of Portugal was settled, as part of the Kingdom of Galicia. With the establishment of the Kingdom in 1139, recognized in 1143, and the stabilization of its borders by 1249, Portugal claims to be the oldest European nation-state.
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