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Braga, Portugal's oldest city, was founded by the Romans in 16 B.C. as Bracara Augusta, the capital of Gallaecia

I wanted to see the countryside, and so headed to Obidos, a charming medieval town with churches and ruins. I grabbed a FlixBus in Lisbon...

Coimbra is Portugal's first capital city and site of one of Europe's oldest universities.

Because my main goal was exploring whether I might ultimately live in Portugal, I was hoping to find a medium-size city not too distant...

After plunging into Lisbon, a major, modern city, I almost immediately shifted gears and headed for Sintra, a romantic royal retreat less...

It had been so long since I’d traveled abroad that I anticipated my trip to Portugal with a sense of wonder and trepidation. Would the...

Several years ago, I took a Norwegian Cruise out of New Orleans to the Caribbean. My then bf said he would go and also pay, but he backed...

I really tried to research the history of Turkey before traveling there, y’all, but considering that it began in the Stone Age, human...

View of Guanajauto where silver is still mined 300 years after the Spanish discovered it there. Whizzing down a winding highway at an...