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Prettiest Villages and Towns in Portugal

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As well as designing custom trips around Spain, here at Totally Spain, we also create unique tailor-made itineraries for Portugal, either exclusively or combined with touring in Spain. If it’s been a while since your last visit to the Iberian Peninsula then why not come again soon?  To inspire you, here are 15 charming, lesser known Portuguese destinations to consider visiting on your next trip. They are some of the Prettiest Villages and Towns in Portugal!

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Totally Spain’s Guide to the Best of the Alentejo Portugal

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Here at Totally Spain, we’ve organised custom tours and travelled extensively through Portugal. We’ve written guides on the Lisbon region, the Centro region and Porto and the North Region, and now it’s time for the Alentejo! We love planning trips to this region’s amazing beaches, charming medieval cities and spectacular landscapes. And do we need to mention the excellent regional cuisine and numerous wineries? Combine our recommendations for the Alentejo with a Lisbon citybreak or a touring holiday of Spain’s enchanting Extremadura and AndalusiaContinue reading

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Twelve Reasons to Take a Lisbon City Break

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We often plan a week off in a warmer climate during our Christmas break when it can get a bit chilly in Northern Spain. With so many Southern cities to choose from we are spoilt for choice (we’ve been customising trips across Spain and Portugal since 2000) but one place that keeps on drawing us back, is Lisbon.  There’s something so refreshing about a Lisbon city break.

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Totally Spain’s Guide to Significant Jewish Heritage Sights in Portugal

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We’ve written recently about Spain’s Jewish heritage and today we’d like to highlight some of the more significant Jewish sights in Portugal where you can step back in time and get a sense of how this vibrant community lived and worked. We start in the capital, Lisbon, and tour nine locations before finishing up in Porto. We know that there are many many more significant sights – we’ve been organising Jewish heritage trips throughout our 15 years in business and together with our experienced local guides have put together many highly personalised packages. Here is just one example of the type of trips we programme in Portugal…

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Why Totally Spain likes to Visit Portugal

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We’ve just re-visited Portugal over the Easter holidays and thought we’d share some of our Portuguese trip with you. It’s the fourth family holiday there in less than two years. We love it as a location for our own downtime and we also arrange many client trips from Spain into Portugal so I suppose you can say we were mixing business with pleasure.

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