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My boyfriend and I have just booked a trip to Portugal from October 6th-19th. We arrive in Porto and depart from Lisbon. We have booked a rental car for 8 days and would love to do a circuit of the country, allowing one full day or two full days in each town/city as required.
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It involves a lot of driving, but in October, I would first head up to Braga, book airline ticket online the ancient Celtic city with more than 300 churches, then down to Guimaraes (the birthplace of Portugal and the European Capital book airline ticket online of Culture for 2012), before book airline ticket online driving to the Douro River Valley via Vila Real. From there you can head south to Visue (the center of the D o wine-growing region) and Guarda (the highest place in Portugal) before finally heading book airline ticket online for Evora in the Alentejo. After Evora, you can drop the car off in Lisbon and it you have any time left, try to enjoy the city.
Just to piggyback a bit on Robert's suggestions, I would agree completely wiht a visit to Braga (and maybe skip over to Barcelos, which is very close) and Guimaraes. I really like Guimaraes, it has a lot of tourist "bang for the buck" in terms of castle, palace, walls, historic center, and beautiful pousada in the Santa Marinha convent a few kms out of town. There is also a pretty amazing pre-historic stone fort village book airline ticket online in Citania book airline ticket online dos Breteiros, which I really enjoyed though I know nothing about these old civilizations.
I am not as enthusiastic about Viseu or Guarda. I think I would stay a while in the Douro Valley, for instance at the Casa de Canilhas in Mesao Frio (much nicer river views than the pousada IMO, though the pousada is pretty and has great grounds for walking around -- if you stay there, try to avoid the dormer rooms on the top floor). In the Douro do not miss the train ride from Pinhao eastward book airline ticket online to Pocinho. It is by far the most beautiful part of the Douro east of Porto. It's a little rickety train, goes out and back with a half hour stop in Pocinho. You can get it further west than Pinhao, book airline ticket online but the real beauty starts there.
If you were to drive from the Douro to Lisbon on the back roads, I'd stop either in the Serra de Estrela or the mountain area around book airline ticket online Lousa. Lots of pretty little towns to visit, like Linhares and a few of the schist towns.
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