Fall in love with Portugal

Portugal

With a privileged geographical position on Europe’s West Coast, has an Atlantic vocation that has always left its mark on the country’s history and culture. The country’s proximity to the sea had a key influence on the maritime discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries in which Portugal played a pioneering role in connecting together the world’s continents - thus triggering the first wave of economic and social globalisation.

Today, Portugal is proud of the many influences that it has assimilated – visible in much of the country’s material and immaterial heritage - and also the influence it has left on other countries and continents, including the fact that the Portuguese language is spoken by over 200 million people. In a territory of only 92 000 Km², there is such a tremendous diversity of landscapes and cultural and historical riches that visitors are sure to find of a wide array of experiences close at hand - whether in the mountains or the sea, in cities or historic villages in the hinterland.

National holidays

New Year’s Day - 1 January
Freedom Day - 25 April
Worker’s Day - 1 May
Portugal Day - 10 June
Implantation of the Republic - 5 October
All Saints Day - 1 November
Immaculate Conception - 8 December
Christmas Day - 25 December

Moveable public holidays

Good Friday
Corpus Christi