Sertã Castle

Visit the Castelo da Sertã in Portugal’s Beira Baixa region—a modest yet deeply atmospheric fortress with a rich past and mythic legend.

Discovering Oliveira do Hospital

There’s a quiet kind of beauty in Oliveira do Hospital. The kind that doesn’t reveal itself at once. It lingers in the air, in the way the light falls over the hills, in the stillness of the river that seems to remember older times.

Guimarães

Guimarães, a historic town in the north of Portugal, is known for its significant role in the emergence of the Portuguese national identity in the 12th century. It is said…