My son and I walking up the steps of Fonte Fria in the National Forest of Buçaco eight years ago on our first property hunt in Portugal...

Ponte de Romano connects an austere wildness near Andorinha. “I would rather be with God against man than with man against God.” These...

Villagers treasure Casa do Vale das Lajes, where we lived while I finished writing PORTUGAL IS PERSONAL. We, still, are making...

​ A reenactment of a successful medieval battle against the Spanish in the village of Santar I have been reading the big Saturday edition...

Hewn out of granite outcrop, Senhora da Estrela stands 8 metres, or 26 feet, high near the summit of the Estrela mountains Last Friday...

A surprise terrace of wild chamomile I heard the chirping of cicadas and the occasional conversation among six men softened by their...

On May 1st, yellow broom is hung on gates, doorways and post boxes in an ancient tradition We have been working very hard getting part of...

Exploring Dolmen da Orca, believed to be a tomb and one of the nine sites on the Azenha/Fiais Pre-Historical Route Days before Easter, or...

The "Carnaval" parade in Canas de Senhorim was two hours of elaborate floats and costumed dancers, accompanied by popular and traditional...

Atop a granite massif stands the unique Palheiras, which are dozens of shelters that some call the old village of Fiais da Beira and...

There is a there there; I am cutting my way through years of neglect to a gate in the courtyard. Every day, I see my bare feet instead of...

Caladon in the Mondego River, down below us, on an early autumn day There was no one at the school bus stop on Friday. There were no...

The three of us loved this abandoned granite ruin on first sight; one of its walls had tumbled down, and the 1.6 hectares, or 4 acres, of...