35 unusual and off-beat things to do in Portugal

A woman in pink sitting on the steps of Almourol Castle in Central Portugal

It was while standing beneath the 8-metre (26-feet) high glass ceilings of Carlos Relvas’ mid-19th-century photography studio (in the middle of Portugal’s virtually unknown Ribatejo region) that I thought, ‘wow, Portugal has so many amazing stories that most people won’t know or hear about’. I’ve lived in Lisbon since 2018, and since then I’ve been […]