Short Experience in the North of Portugal

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Ruben

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This short experience in Portugal includes the visit of 4 cities (Porto, Braga, Guimarães and Aveiro) located in the north of Portugal. In this experience, you will have the opportunity to get to know Porto in detail in terms of history and culture. We will appreciate the baroque buildings, the tiled decoration of São Bento station, the beautiful gardens, the old streets and the walk near the beach or the riverside, where we can also enjoy the restaurants and enjoy the Portuguese cuisine. Then we will go to Braga, where we will find several landmarks of Roman history in the Iberica Peninsula. We will visit the city center and also the famous Bom Jesus do Monte Cathedral, before traveling to Guimarães, where we will find the city where Portugal was born. We will appreciate the old architecture of some houses from the 16th century, the old castle, the main squares like the Plaza de Santiago. To end our experience, we will move to Aveiro, the "Venice" of Portugal, the city of our typical gastronomy called "Ovos Moldes", and here we can enjoy an incredible travel boat on the lagoon.
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Trip Itinerary
1

Porto

Day 1-2
We will visit the main strategic points where we can enjoy the best views of the city of Porto. We will appreciate the intense commercial movements in Rua de Santa Catarina and Rua das Flores, where we can find several shops, street singers, several landmarks of Porto's history and some restaurants where we can enjoy the typical gastronomy of Porto, Francesinha. In the city center, we will appreciate the main buildings in various architectural styles, the great Clérigos tower, the S. Bento train station and the famous Lello bookshop. We will visit the sea and the riverside where we can enjoy the typical fish gastronomy.
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Braga

Day 2-3
We will visit the city center, where we can find some parts of the old medieval city, namely the old wall, the old city gates, the old towers and the old cathedral. We will visit some parts of the city where we can find the Roman landmarks. We will visit the Episcopal Palace, the Santa Barbara garden and, at the end, we will visit Bom Jesus do Monte. We will visit the old castle of Guimaraes where Portugal was born and also the Duques Palace. Then we will visit the city center where we can find the old wall that surrounded the city. We will appreciate the baroque style in the churches and the typical gastronomy of Minho.
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3 days trip
Porto, Braga
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