Portugal travel resources
Lisbon's hills, Porto's port cellars, the Algarve's cliffs and island escapes to Madeira.
Quick facts
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Language
- Portuguese
- Best time to visit
- Apr–Jun and Sep–Oct Compare countries by month
- Emergency
- 112
- Plug types
- C, F
- Drives on
- Right
- Government travel advice
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Travel Tips
- Trains connect Lisbon, Coimbra and Porto; buses are often better for the Algarve’s smaller towns.
- Lisbon and Porto are very hilly. Comfortable shoes beat wheeled luggage on cobbles.
- Sintra’s palaces are busiest late morning. Go early and book timed tickets ahead in summer.
- Restaurants may bring bread, olives or cheese you didn’t order; they’re charged if you eat them.
- The Atlantic stays cool even in summer, especially on the west coast.
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