Tour 3

Today, and after airport formalities, you will be collected outside customs, and transferred, by Deluxe vehicle with English speaking chauffeur, to your hotel in Lisbon.

After check-in procedures, take your time to unwind and relax!

Boasting springtime temperatures during the winter and cool summers freshened by a breeze blowing in from the Atlantic, Costa de Lisboa, on the southwestern coast, offers a rich and impressively integrated diversity. The capital of Portugal since its conquest from the Moors in 1147, Lisbon is a legendary city with over 20 centuries of History.

This morning, with the assistance of your expert guide, you’ll discover the most emblematic neighborhoods of the city: Bairro Alto – a picturesque quarter dating from the 1500s, that has traditionally been the city’s bohemian haunt of artists and writers, Chiado – an elegant, sophisticated district of theaters, bookshops, old-style cafes, art nouveau jewelry shops, luxurious international names such as Hermes, and local treasures, Rossio – the liveliest square in the city and Alfama – Lisbon’s heart during Moorish times, you’ll find yourself wandering through colorful XVIII century squares downtown and getting lost in the medieval maze of the Alfama district overlooked by an ancient castle.

Today’s highlight will be the intimate and romantic river cruise aboard a luxury sailing yacht. This cruise includes panoramic first row to the main Lisbon facade, where you can see the major nautical monuments such as Belem Tower, Discovery monument, 25 April Bridge, Sanctuary of Christ the King, MAAT (Museum of Art and Architecture and Technology) and Comercio Square.

Today, marvel with the quaint and aristocratic, World Heritage by UNESCO, town of Sintra – where Lord Byron lived and considered it to be “Paradise in Earth”. You’ll see castles, fortresses, forests, and beautiful scenery. 

Sintra and its mystical hills dotted with fairytale palaces and extravagant villas have bewitched visitors for centuries. The Romans made it a place of cult moon worshiping and named it “Cynthia” after the goddess of the moon. They were followed by the Moors who also fell in love with the lush vegetation and built a hilltop castle, a palace, and several fountains around the town. Later it became the summer residence of the Portuguese royal family and attracted a number of wealthy aristocrats who built huge mansions and villas.

You’ll visit the 19th century Pena Palace, one of Europe’s most fantastic palaces. It includes a drawbridge, a conglomeration of turrets, ramparts, and domes, and a gargoyle above a Neo-Manueline arch, all washed in an array of pastel shades. The extravagant interior is decorated in late Victorian and Edwardian furnishings, rich ornaments, paintings, and priceless porcelain preserved just as the royal family left them.

By the end of the morning, meet your sidecar driver and venture on a private stylish Vintage Scooter sidecar ride through the lavish landscape of Sintra direction to Cascais, a lovely fishermen village that became (along with neighboring Estoril) a popular resort favored by European nobility and kings in the early 20th century. Today it is a colorful cosmopolitan town with elegant pedestrian streets, luxuriant villas, fashionable shops, restaurants and bars.

During the ride, with the assistance of your private driver-guide, discover the mystic surroundings and hidden palaces until where the mountain discloses the beautiful seaside landscape. Your tour culminates at Cabo da Roca, the most western point of Europe.

Have a relaxed lunch (not included) and venture on a relaxing walking tour enjoying the fresh sea breeze.

Your driver will take you back to your hotel in Lisbon.

• Sidecar subject to weather conditions

Today depart towards Comporta, only one hour from Lisbon, this region is located in the Sado Estuary Nature Reserve. You will find yourself in a paradise of tranquility and solitude. This unspoiled corner of nature offers unusual landscapes consisting of broad wild beaches, rippling dunes, dense pine forests and innumerable birds.

Leisurely day for a (highly recommended!) spa treatment or a stroll on the beach…

Today indulge on a unique and romantic horseback ride through the sand. This earthly paradise offers amazing beaches with seemingly endless golden dunes, green rice fields, traditional fishermen’s dwelling and the close contact with a myriad of indigenous animal species. 

Discover this landscape defined by cork oaks, blustery dunes, sandy beaches and rice paddies. The route runs along the rice paddies, through the pine forest and the dunes until the beach is reached, a paradisiacal sandy Atlantic coast as far as the eye can see.

After lunch, enjoy leisure time to relax and take sunbaths on the beach. By the end of the day, your chauffeur will drive you to hotel.

According to your flight departure time, and after check-out procedures, your private chauffeur will meet you at the lobby and take you towards Lisbon International Airport.