PORTUGAL

Includes Braga, Vila Real, Braganca, Porto, Aveiro, Viseu, Guarda, Coimbra, Leira, Santarem, Portalegre, Lisbon, Azulejos, Setubal, Evora, Beja, Algarve, Azores and Madeira. And underwater delight to behold, port wine to imbibe and understand, traditions and gastronomy. Portugal has developed a special cultural landscape due to its location between the Atlantic Ocean and neighbouring Spain. North African, Moorish influences have shaped a special cultural landscape that combines with a multi-faceted landscape. In Portugal you will find impressive mountain ranges, dry plains, gentle hills, and rocky cliffs, blue seas and skies, beautiful beaches and coves, temples, windmills and lighthouses, rice fields at Sado river, high peaks, blue lakes, the cork oak, grand plazas and buildings and the Lusitano horse. In over 450 pictures, this volume shows Portugal's extraordinary diversity. Maps, stunning full page colour photos. Text in six languages. Softback, 17 x 20.8cm, 468pp.