After breakfast, check out and meet your driver for a private transfer to Porto.

Check in at your 5*hotel in Porto for two nights including buffet breakfast. Time to discover this fantastic city, on the Douro river banks, known by its monument’s variety, tradition and cultural richness.

Included in the program. Private Porto Tour

Half day guided tour to explore the charismatic and beautiful city of Porto. Walk through the historical center, declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO, with narrow streets and squares and feel the magical of the old city and the warmth of its inhabitants. Admire the iconic bridge of D. Luís I, built by one of the disciples of Gustav Eiffel, who participated in the construction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Statue of Liberty in New York.

See the Palacio da Bolsa stock exchange and the imposing Cathedral of Porto, one of the most enchanting buildings of the city, dating from the 12th-century. Visit the São Bento railway station and learn all about the blue and white tiles that tell the history of the North of Portugal. See the Clerigos Tower, and continue to the Aliados Avenue, surrounded by high granite buildings, with Art Nouveau and Art Deco façades.

On the way admire the fabulous Livraria Lello, one of the most emblematic bookshops in the world, carriying more than a century of heritage with its amazing interior architecture and the bookselling knowledge. Harry Potter’s library in Hogwarts was in fact inspired by this sumptuous bookshop and its iconic staircase – J.K Rowling lived in Porto in the early 1990s, teaching English.

(Not included: entrance tickets to monuments)

Dinner at Barão Fladgate Restaurant

Indulge yours senses in one of Porto’s favourite restaurant.

Barão Fladgate Restaurant enjoys a spectacular location and atmospheric setting in the grounds of Taylor’s Port cellars with magnificent views across the Douro River to the old historic centre of Porto. It offers a contemporary interpretation of traditional cuisine where the accent is on fresh local ingredients and on showcasing the authentic flavours of Portugal. The wine list features a wide variety of labels from the main Portuguese vineyard areas and, as would be expected, a comprehensive choice of both wood-aged and Vintage Ports.

Named after John Fladgate, the celebrated 19th century Port shipper and partner of Taylor’s who was awarded the title of Baron for his services to viticulture, the Barão Fladgate restaurant celebrates 20 years of inspiring fine cuisine and excellent service.

(Not included: transfer to restaurant)

After breakfast, check out and meet your driver for a private transfer to Douro Valley.

Northern Portugal is a well known region particularly rich in culture and natural heritage. One of its ‘pearls’ is the Douro Valley, defined by having been the first demarcated wine region in the world and its landscape classified as a UNESCO World Heritage. “Majestic Douro, the wonder of a landscape… an excess of Nature that eyes cannot contemplate at its full! “ – a description by the famous Portuguese writer Miguel Torga.

Accommodation in a 5*hotel in the Douro Valley for two nights including buffet breakfast. Included in the program:

Private tour to Douro (including transfer to your hotel in the Douro region)– Leave your hotel in Porto and travel in private deluxe Mercedes to discover the charming and unique Douro Region. Stop at the Romanesque town

of Amarante on the Tâmega River where the locals battled Napoleon’s army in 1763.

Continue to the Douro Valley, the birthplace of the well-known Port wine, with stunning landscapes of green and golden slopes covered with vineyards. Visit the Catholic pilgrimage town of Lamego, and experience the astonishing baroque blue & white tiled staircase up to the Marian Shrine of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios. Continue to Peso da Régua and visit the Douro Museum and learn about the culture and identity of the wine region. Peso da Régua played a fundamental role in the production and sale of Port wine, where from the barrels were transported in the special boats know as ‘rabelos’ to Vila Nova de Gaia. There the wine was left to age in the local wine lodges. Continue to Pinhão, see the beautiful and

historical train station and visit a ‘Quinta’ and vineyard, for a tour and wine tasting.

(Not included: lunch and monuments entrance tickets)

After breakfast meet your driver at reception for a private transfer to Lisbon by private deluxe Mercedes sedan. Spend your last night at a 5* hotel in Lisbon including buffet breakfast.

Fado Dinner

Night out for a farewell dinner and Fado show with drinks at one of Fado restaurants in Alfama or Bairro Alto quarters. Fado is the ‘musical expression of the Portuguese people’ with a UNESCO World Heritage status, as an urban Lisbon song symbolic of the city and the country. Literally Fado means ‘faté’ or ‘destiny’ and is considered Lisbon’s version of the blues, marked by a heartfelt emotion voice and a Portuguese guitar. Each eruptive ballad evokes the Portuguese emotion of ’saudade’ , a longing for something lost.

Check out from your hotel and private transfer to Lisbon Airport.

• Transfer fromLisbon Airportto Hotel andfromHotel to Airportbyprivatedeluxecar;
• Accommodationfor 7 nights on Bed& Breakfast 
• HalfdayPrivateLisbon tour, *Full day Private Sintra & Cascais Tour(lunch not included);
• HalfdayPrivatePorto tour 
• Dinner and drinks at BarãoFladgate Restaurant;
• Full day Douro Valley tour and transfer to Hotel in the Douro region;
• Fado Dinner anddrinks;
• Transfers fromLisbon to Porto and fromDouro Valley to Lisbon, byprivatedeluxecar.

• (**Tourism-Driver – professional able to give a short historical and cultural information throughout the tour)
• (**Official Guide – professional able to give detailed historical and cultural including monuments – supplement will apply – On Request)
• Lisbon and Porto City Tax not included – €ur2 per person, per night, to be paid directly by client to hotel.