Unesco Heritage

For a country this size, Portugal holds a remarkable number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites — seventeen at last count, and they are unusually varied. A monastery built to pay off a battlefield promise. An entire wine region shaped by hand into terraces. Rock carvings in the Côa Valley that predate almost everything else on the list. A university where teaching has not stopped since the thirteenth century. Our itineraries string them together in a way that makes geographic sense, with time at each one before and after the tour groups arrive.