Setúbal is a port city about 50 kilometres south of Lisbon, set on the Sado estuary at the foot of the Serra da Arrábida. It is one of Portugal’s great fishing towns, the home of Moscatel wine, and the gateway to some of the finest coastline near the capital: the Arrábida mountains, the white sands […]
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Cascais is a coastal town at the western end of the Estoril coast, about 30 kilometres west of Lisbon and an easy train ride from the city along the seafront line. It began as a fishing village and became a fashionable resort in 1870, when the Portuguese royal family chose it as their summer residence […]
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Coimbra is a university city in central Portugal, built up a steep hill above the Mondego River roughly halfway between Lisbon and Porto. It was the capital of the country from 1131 to 1255, and it holds one of the oldest universities in the world, which still sets the rhythm of the streets below it. […]
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The Algarve is Portugal’s southernmost region, a strip of Atlantic coast running roughly 150 kilometres from the Spanish border in the east to Cape St Vincent in the far southwest. Its signature is ochre sandstone: sea cliffs, arches, and pocket coves strung between a chain of old fishing towns, among them Faro, Albufeira, Portimão, and […]
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Portugal occupies the western edge of the Iberian Peninsula, roughly 900 kilometres of Atlantic coastline running from the Minho down to the Algarve, plus the mid-ocean islands of Madeira and the Azores. Lisbon sits on the Tagus estuary in the centre, Porto anchors the north on the Douro, and between them the country packs river […]
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Leiria The Travel Photography Guide Last updated: 14 May 2026written by Nico Trinkhaus Leiria wasn’t on our immediate “must visit” list in Portugal. We came for a very different reason: the Portuguese language test we needed for the nationality application after six years in the country. Our plan was simple. Arrive, study, pass, leave. But […]
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hidden gems The Travel Photography Guide Last updated: 14 May 2026 written by Daria Trinkhaus, photography by Nico Trinkhaus A guide to 7 underrated European cities, hidden gems. In an age when algorithms decide which cities we visit and what we consider beautiful, it is hard to find hidden gems that haven’t been photographed a million […]
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Madeira is a Portuguese autonomous region in the Atlantic, roughly 1,000 kilometres southwest of Lisbon and closer to the African coast than to mainland Europe. The archipelago is volcanic, with sharp ridges rising out of the ocean and a mild climate that holds steady most of the year. Funchal, on the south coast, is the […]
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Porto sits on the north bank of the Douro estuary in northern Portugal, where the river meets the Atlantic. The historic centre, anchored by the Ribeira waterfront and crossed by the double-deck Dom Luís I Bridge, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996. The port wine lodges of Vila Nova de Gaia line […]
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Sintra is a hill town about 30 kilometres west of Lisbon, set in the wooded Serra de Sintra and bordered by the Atlantic at Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point of continental Europe. The historic centre and surrounding palaces, parks, and coastline form the Cultural Landscape of Sintra, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Most landmarks […]
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Lisbon The Travel Photography Guide Last updated: 19 January 2026 written by Daria Trinkhaus, photography by Nico Trinkhaus Lisbon is our home. Even though we have been living in a small town on the coast for some time now, Lisbon is still the centre of our lives. However, the capital of Portugal was not love at […]
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