We give below an index of our features articles:

• Azulejos: Tiling a Nation in Portugal
  A popular style of decoration and one of many features in buildings

• Chiado: Lisboa’s Charming Quarter 
  One of Lisbon’s upmarket areas favourite with artists and poets in the early 1900s

• Convento dos Capuchos  Azenhas do Mar
  An former austere hermitage built amongst boulders by monks. The beautiful scenic village Azenhas do Mar by the coast

• Fernando Pessoa’s Lisboa
  

Review of a guide of Lisbon written in 1925 by a beloved poet of Portugal

 

• Ferry Across the Tejo: Porto Brandão, Trafaria
  A trip by ferry across the River Tejo

• Garden Parks: Lisboa & Estoril Coast
  Various gardens open to the public

• Mafra Convent – National Palace – A Majestic Building
  A  fabulous vast Palace with history and great architecture

• Miradouros Lisboa: Lookout Spots in Lisboa 
  Those spots where you can get great views

• Oceanarium of Lisbon & Park of Nations 
  One of Lisbon’s great modern structures housing tanks with many species of sea creatures, gardens, restaurants

• Oeiras: A Dynamic Borough
  A borough which has the Gunpowder factory museum, Vasco da Gama Aquarium, Poets Park

• Queluz Royal Palace: A National Heritage
  A 17th century Royal Palace steeped in history with beautifully designed and decorated rooms, gardens

• Quinta da Regaleira Palace: Sintra’s Fairytale
  

A picturesque palace built in 1905 surrounded by various types of vegetation, trees

 

• Saint Anthony: Celebrating 13th June with Lisboa’s Patron Saint
  The ‘festas’ of the Saint celebrated in Lisbon with parades

• Sintra: Lord Byron’s Glorious Sintra
  To visit in Sintra the Royal Palace, Quinta da Regaleira, Moors Castle, Pena National Palace

 

• Traditional Portuguese Shops: Cascais & Lisboa
  Some old shops that have been going for decades and some new ones

• Tram 28 in Lisboa
  

Tram 28  goes from Martim Moniz across the centre to the final destination Prazeres