June 27, 2022 Our last stop on a very full day was the city of Aveiro. Photos of the city that we saw online were beautiful, and we were e...

  June 27, 2022 From Batalha we drove about an hour north-northeast to the university city of Coimbra, where we had a private tour scheduled...

   June 27, 2022 I thought it would be hard to top Alcobaça's Monastery of Santa Maria, but our next stop, only 12 miles away, was even ...

  June 27, 2022 Our first stop of the day was only a seven-mile drive from Nazaré--the city of Alcobaça, and more specifically, the Monaster...

June 26, 2022 There is a story that in the 4th century a small wooden statue of the Virgin Mary was brought from the city of Nazareth in the...

   June 26, 2022 The small town of Nazaré (population 10,000) is known for two unrelated things: surfing and a miracle. I'll start with ...

  June 26, 2022 After swooning over the basilica and palace in Mafra, we headed north towards Óbidos, a distance of about 45 miles. (We neve...