• 3 Dinner (D)
• 10 Breakfast (B)
• 1 Lunch (L)

• Business class coach with extended leg room
• Top-rated dining, from farm-to-table to local restaurants
• 4 & 5-star stays

• Lisbon: Meet your Travel Director and Small Group at a local neighbourhood restaurant, where you’ll sit down to plates shaped by Lisbon’s Atlantic staples, giving you a clear first taste of the city’s everyday cooking.
• Douro Valley: You’ll sit down to a Farm-to-Table meal prepared with produce grown in the Douro region. Alongside local dishes, you’ll try Port wine made from grapes cultivated on the valley’s terraced hillsides, with staff sharing how the landscape shapes the flavour and style of each pour. 
• Lisbon: Shared experiences and memories are often the foundation for special bonds and friendships. Toast your travels with wine and good cheer during your dinner at a restaurant in Lisbon, devoted to the enjoyment of regional cooking.

• Tomar: Explore Tomar’s hilltop Templar Castle, founded in the 12th century and later remodelled by the Order of Christ, including the Charola and surrounding defences. Afterwards, with your Local Specialist, walk through the historic centre to the 15th-century synagogue, one of Portugal’s few surviving examples, now housing a small collection on the town’s former Jewish community.

Visit the Sanctuary of Fátima, Portugal’s major pilgrimage site, to see the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary and the Chapel of the Apparitions. Stand on the vast esplanade where pilgrims gather in reverent silence and light candles of supplication or thanks.

Learn how the reported 1917 apparitions transformed a rural village into a spiritual center visited by millions. Architecture, ritual and open skies combine to create a space of contemplation and devotion.

Explore Tomar’s hilltop fortress with a Local Specialist, entering the UNESCO-listed Convento do Cristo. Step into the Templars’ Rotunda (Charola) and study the sculpted Manueline Window, a stone filigree of ropes, knots and maritime symbols.

Descend into the old town to the 15th-century synagogue, now a small museum honoring a once-vital Jewish community. Tomar’s streets and cloisters reveal the shift from Knights Templar to the Order of Christ and Portugal’s ocean-facing ambitions.

Wander Coimbra’s steep lanes with a Local Specialist to the hilltop University of Coimbra, one of Europe’s oldest. Enter the baroque Joanina Library to admire painted ceilings and carved shelves designed to protect rare volumes and celebrate learning.

Hear how royal courts and student traditions shaped Portugal’s early capital. Between collegiate courtyards and age-worn cafes, academic life still anchors the city’s rhythms and rituals.

Savor a Farm-to-Table lunch crafted from Douro produce, then taste Port wine made from grapes grown on the region’s terraced Douro vineyards. Staff share how hillside plots, schist soils and sun-traced slopes shape each pour.

Between olive groves and river bends, learn pairing notes and the valley’s centuries-old tradition of harvest and blend. The setting and flavors together capture Portugal’s storied wine country.

Wander Guimarães’ medieval centre where granite houses lean over narrow lanes and pocket squares. View the hilltop castle that guarded Portugal’s infancy and the arcaded courtyards of the Paco dos Duques de Braganca.

Often called the birthplace of the nation, Guimarães showcases preserved streetscapes, artisan workshops and Romanesque silhouettes. The town’s UNESCO listing recognizes how its urban fabric has remained in continuous use for centuries.

Explore with a Local Specialist to admire São Bento Railway Station and its story-rich azulejo panels before crossing the Dom Luís I Bridge for sweeping views over the Douro. The ironwork span, designed by a student of Eiffel, frames the city’s tiled hillsides.

Hear how merchants, shipbuilders and wine shippers shaped Porto’s UNESCO-listed center, from riverside Ribeira warehouses to Belle Époque facades lining the quays.

Walk within Óbidos’ medieval walls, entering through its azulejo gateway to find whitewashed lanes, flowering balconies and castle ramparts. Browse bookshops and tiny chapels before you sample ginja, the local cherry liqueur traditionally served in small cups.

Granted as a royal wedding gift in the 13th century, Óbidos preserves a compact townscape where history and hospitality mingle on every cobblestone.

Begin your journey by meeting your Travel Director and Small Group to sit down to regional dishes at a local Lisbon restaurant. Expect Atlantic flavors—grilled fish, citrus, olive oil—and the convivial mood that defines neighborhood dining.

Between clinked glasses and warm conversation, raise a first toast to Portugal. The setting introduces the city’s everyday cooking and welcomes you into the rhythms of Lisbon life.

Conclude your adventure as you toast your travels at a Lisbon restaurant known for seasonal Portuguese cooking. Share a final table with your companions to share highlights with your Small Group and celebrate the country road discoveries behind you.

Expect comforting recipes, regional wines and the easy warmth of Portuguese hospitality—a fitting close to days spent among castles, cloisters and ocean horizons.

Experience a soulful Fado performance in Lisbon’s historic Alfama or Bairro Alto, where guitar chords and poetic lyrics carry tales of longing. A traditional dinner of Portuguese classics accompanies the music in an intimate setting.

Learn how this urban folk genre emerged in 19th-century taverns and became a cherished cultural emblem. This is an Optional Experience at additional cost, bookable on tour.

See Porto from the water as you cruise the Douro aboard a traditional Rabelo boat, once used to carry casks downstream. Glide beneath the Six Bridges of Porto, from Arrábida’s arch to the ironwork of Dom Luís I, with views of Ribeira and Gaia’s wine lodges.

Gain a fresh perspective on the city’s engineering and riverfront life. This is an Optional Experience at additional cost, bookable on tour.

Join a guided evening walk through Porto’s Ribeira district, where tiled facades glow and narrow lanes open to the quay. Settle in for a riverside dinner featuring northern specialties as boats drift past under illuminated bridges.

Hear stories of merchants and fishermen while savoring the Douro’s atmosphere after dusk. This is an Optional Experience at additional cost, bookable on tour.

Explore the Algarve’s maritime heritage on an orientation walk through Lagos’ walled old town and along the harbor. Stroll past arcaded squares and the Praca Infante Dom Henrique, where nautical charts and shipyards once shaped Portugal’s ocean routes.

Stories of navigators, merchants and sailors echo through cobbled lanes and seafront viewpoints. Trace the town’s role in voyages along the West African coast and reflect at landmarks that reveal both prosperity and the complexities of early global trade.

Glide by small boat with local experts to cruise through Ria Formosa Natural Park, skimming past tidal flats and barrier islands alive with birdlife. Come ashore to visit a working oyster farm and taste freshly shucked oysters while learning how traditional know-how sustains modern aquaculture.

Meet marine biologists and islanders who safeguard this living lagoon. Hear how protected wetlands, careful cultivation and community stewardship keep the Algarve’s waters productive for generations to come.

Walk Évora’s whitewashed lanes with a Local Specialist to encounter the Roman Temple, the stark Capela dos Ossos lined with arranged bones, and the hilltop Évora Cathedral where Romanesque foundations rise to Gothic vaults.

This UNESCO-listed city reveals layers of Iberian, Roman and medieval influence. Pause to read carved capitals, step beneath cool cloisters and consider the monks’ memento mori, a sobering reflection framed by Alentejo light and honey-colored stone.

Insight Vacations

Discover Lisbon with a Local Specialist as you join a guided panoramic tour through the Baixa Pombalina. In Belém, pause by the Belém Tower and the riverfront Monument to the Discoveries, then step inside the Jerónimos Monastery cloister to admire delicate Manueline carvings. Conclude with a sweet stop to sample Pastéis de Belém where the original 1837 recipe is still baked.

Context unfolds from the 1755 earthquake to the Age of Discoveries, with limestone avenues, gilded chapels and the Tagus estuary anchoring the story of Portugal’s seafaring capital.