With "Vagar" as its motto, a concept "deeply rooted in the characteristics of the people of Alentejo and its territory", the ...

The Alentejo Portugal surf guide download is a convenient, organized format of our Alentejo Portugal travel website content and includes up to 7-day forecasts for surfing travel areas in Alentejo ...

If there exists a better way to see a landscape than on horseback, I’ve yet to find it. The world looks fine from high in a saddle, earth moving swiftly beneath you, air that much fresher six feet off ...

Jayme Simoes, a consultant and expert on Portugal, has often spent pleasurable time in that country’s southern region of Alentejo. I interviewed him on my travel podcast (see below) and earlier wrote ...

After a long flight the hour and a half car ride from the Lisbon airport to Alentejo would provide a much-needed nap, but as I lazily began surveying the landscape of this unfamiliar place out the ...

View of Evoramonte from The Place at Evoramonte. Photo Credit: Leandra Benjamin, courtesy of Visit Alentejo What might travel be like during the recovery period once Covid-19 is under control? Thanks ...

Within minutes of uploading my first Instagram story from my stay at São Lourenço do Barrocal, the messages began pouring in: “My favorite place.” “Favorite hotel in the world.” “The best memories ...

It was the first swallow of spring. Helpless and fledgling, its mouth gaping open for food, our life-affirming discovery among the willow and acacia trees was the first sign of the changing seasons.

It is known as its country’s “breadbasket” and could even be called “cork central,” but Alentejo is also the largest wine region in Portugal. We are talking about a huge area here — roughly one-third ...