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 Travel to Portugal offers many options including a trip to the Azores Islands, but what about exploring the major cities in the country?
Today's Portugal is a fascinating place where new architecture enhances Portugal's landscape as new public buildings and art centers soar high and complement the innovation and spirit of the past. Additionally, Portugal offers visitors world-class lodging and cuisine, all influenced by the allure of the Atlantic coast, 530 miles in length, that is still irresistible to visitors. Portugal's cities have been hailed by travel writers in recent months as some of the most exciting in Europe. Lisbon has reemerged as the place to indulge in fine cuisine, music, and light. Its wide avenues are brimming not simply with history but with fine shops, eateries, and museums.
Porto, to the north, is a cultural capital, with a reborn river district, new cultural institutions, and shopping on par with any capital city on the Continent. And, for fun, spontaneity, and amazing weather, the city of Funchal on Madeira is a wonderful place to escape to.
But in Portugal one can discover more castles per capita than anywhere else into world and popular forms of music, like the Fado that stretch back 1,000 years. Imagine palatial manor houses welcoming you as their guest with all the elegance of 800 years of tradition. Imagine the most modern of hotels rising like a cloud above the mystic seven hills of Lisbon.
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