Villa Quinta da Pousada, Ponte de Lima – Where you will feel like a royalty for the duration of your holiday. It would be nigh on impossible to exaggerate just how good villa Quinta da Pousada actually is. A huge country mansion house set in 5-acres of the sort of countryside that would probably
With whitewashed fishing villages, vibrant cities, an exhilarating coastline and sublime verdurous scenery, Northern Portugal really is a great place to experience culture, beauty, pace and tranquillity, in equal doses. If you are looking for accommodation to do this exceptionally pretty and exciting part of Europe the justice it deserves, then Vintage Travel recommends the luxury
In a Portuguese summer you can virtually guarantee to have great weather and nothing goes hand in hand with hot weather quite as fluently than at a festival of love, union, peace and psychedelic music. The satisfaction of this heady amalgamation is demonstrated affectively at Portugal’s Freedom Festival. The six-day Freedom Festival 2013 will run from
The Algarve is renowned for many delights – world-famous golf resorts, great local cuisine and quant riverside towns with ancient bridges being just one of the many historic and domineering landmarks. Fabulous beaches are another feature of the Algarve that is rivalled by little where else in the world. Take a look at three dream
If you are lucky enough to be spending some time in the vicinity of Porto this June then you may be interested to hear that Muse will also be in town. You do not often find many great bands coming out of the West Country, but with Muse, Devon can boast that their county has
Walking in northern Portugal – Nature as it always was and as it was always meant to be! Whilst northern Portugal has many areas of outstanding natural beauty, which are paradisiacal for walkers and hikers, one of the best walks in northern Portugal is one of the most seldom-visited areas – A natural park in
With 1,000 pound Marlin having been taken in the past, it is safe to say that Portugal is one of the best places to go big game fishing in Europe. As well as Marlin there are other sporting fish, such as Tuna, shark, swordfish and sawfish thriving in the many mighty Atlantic Ocean. In fact,
Viana de Castelo – Quite possibly the prettiest city in Portugal. The city of Viano de Castelo is in Northern Portugal just 60 kilometres south of the Spanish border. The great explorers used to set sail from here in the Golden Age of discovery. During the 15th and 16th centuries all manner of exotic products was
Gustave Eiffel may have become enduringly famous for a rather large tower he designed in Paris, but there are many other important constructions dotted around Europe that bare the mark of the highly innovative and venerated French architect. Another great yet somehow less illustrious Gustave Eiffel creation can be found in the city of Lisbon
When Sir Alex Ferguson suggested to fellow football manager Jose Mourinho that there was no decent wine in Portugal, the ever demonstrative Mourinho sent a case of Portuguese wine around to Old Trafford and Sir Alex was forced to concede defeat. Of course this may have been a wind up ploy by the Scot in
