PORTUGAL Portugal lies along the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula, only 6 hours away from North America and 2 hours on average from any other European capital. A small country with a very diverse landscape, mountains in the north and centre with amazing valleys and rivers, plaines bathed by rivers in Alentejo as we go southwards and the beaches of the Algarve with white sand and beautiful rock formations with a Mediterranean climate along the Atlantic coast.
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A friendly country with a long history, with remnants of the many people that occupied and developed it, from Phoenicians to Romans to Moors and finally a Portuguese kingdom since 1143.The adventurous Portuguese sailed around the whole world in the 15th and 16th centuries and nowadays we can feel the influence of all these other cultures touched in those days in the Gastronomy, the Architecture, the Decorative Arts, the Literature, among others.
