The Rough Guide to Portugal

by Rough Guides

The Rough Guide to Portugal is the ultimate travel guide to one of the world's most popular holiday destinations. With in-depth coverage to guide you and stunning photography to inspire you, The Rough Guide to Portugal will ensure you make the most of your time in Portugal, whether you plan to relax on the Algarve's vast swathes of golden sand, surf the wave-lashed west coast or hike through the country's unspoilt mountainous interior. Crystal clear maps help you explore Portugal further, from tracking down fashionable hangouts in Lisbon to discovering the port wine lodges in Porto. Insider reviews reveal the best places to eat, drink and sleep with something for every budget, whether you plan to enjoy the country's pousadas by staying in a stunningly converted monastery or castle, gorge on pastéis de Belém in Lisbon, or sip your way along a wine route in the Alentejo.

Make the most of your trip with The Rough Guide to Portugal.

Genres: Travel, Reference, Nonfiction, Portugal, Guidebook

538 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 28, 1984

About the author

Founded in 1982, Rough Guides Ltd is a British publisher of print and digital guide book, phrasebooks and inspirational travel reference books, and a provider of personalised trips. Since November 2017, Rough Guides has been owned by APA Publications UK Ltd, the parent company of Insight Guides.
With the company's personalised trip service encompassing over eighty destinations, and 200 guidebooks covering 180 destinations, Rough Guides is a multi-faceted travel platform, with global sales of 100 million guidebooks since their inception.

Reviews

[Julian Worker · Rating 5 out of 5]

The finest travel to a wonderful country

[Tanya · Rating 5 out of 5]

I combed through this book carefully, both before and during our trip to Portugal, and found it invaluable. I was able to identify the sites I wanted to invest my time in and eliminate others that have been overrated. While in the country I carried the book with me and constantly referred to it to learn about what I was seeing. The many detailed maps were invaluable. Thanks to John Fisher for helping me have a wonderful vacation!

[Jack Hrkach · Rating 4 out of 5]

To anyone who reads me regularly this will sound like a broken record, but whenever I travel to Europe I use the Rough Guides and Rick Steves. Not everyone will like them as some will consider them verbose. I, on the other hand consider them packed with information, which can only make a strange place seem slightly less so. Others won't like them as there are not as many pictures - but why waste space, argue I, with photos, when you will be seeing the real thing - what one wants is to know ABOUT what one is seeing - right? Of course I am.

This Rough Guide seems to me one of the best in a great series. The writers seem to really love Portugal, in addition to being able to describe it well. It is not difficult to fall in love with Portugal - I certainly did, but this booked helped me in that way too. If you travel to Portugal - and you SHOULD! pick up this guide - you'll be happy you did!

[Alger Smythe-Hopkins · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of the few up-to-date and thorough guides to Portugal I was able to find. This one stands out since it visits small towns and single item diversions.

[Pia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I never before read a travel guide cover to cover. But since I set myself a reading challenge this year, I thought I’d give it a try as I was gonna read it at least partly any way.
I actually really enjoyed myself a lot! I found myself dreaming of hikes in the mountains and strolls along the beaches. Keeping notes of whatever places I really didn’t want to miss. I thought it especially great that the chapter about Portugal’s most visited region, the Algarve, was the last in the book. After reading all about the rest of Portugal, I suddenly found myself thinking; do I even want to go there, seeing as there is so much to see up north?
As travel guides go; this one I really neat. There is enough background info about many places, I also learned quite a lot about Portuguese history. I really liked the fact that there is info on how to get just about everywhere, even without a car. Would definitely recommend it.

[Kevin · Rating 5 out of 5]

So much great detail while still being concise. And practical tips too. Cannot wait to get there.

[Kiron Reid · Rating 5 out of 5]

We used the Rough Guide to Portugal for our recent trip to the eastern Algarve. We were staying in Cabanas, a small holiday village town near more historic Tavira. The guide actually had a short entry on Cabanas which we found accurate, and we also used it for Tavira, the city of Faro and Vila Real de San Antonio (where I took the ferry across for an afternoon at Ayamonte in Spain). The guide was useful and pretty accurate in each place. We also find the language and broader contextual information useful in the Rough Guides even when they don't cover or cover much places that we are visiting.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

Since I haven't been to Portugal, it's hard for me to rate this book. I do find the assertion that the cuisine is somewhat limited and repetitious strange. I'm not exactly sure what 'fine cuisine' is but I'm sure there's interesting fusion places as well as traditional that are a local's only secret. Good for an introduction to Portugal.

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Przewodnik Pascal dobrze opisuje atrakcje poszczególnych regionów. Przy każdym rozdziale są umieszczone informacje o noclegach i gastronomii. Ja przeczytałam wydanie z 2003 roku (ale jest dostępne nowsze), ale przez Internet można bez problemu zaktualizować informacje.

[Scrabbleme · Rating 4 out of 5]

clearly better than other guides. very informative, non-pretentious.

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Helpful, but little point to a digital version if the maps don't have better resolution.

[Jmolentin]

Used a later edition around 1999 for our trip to portugal

[Carol · Rating 3 out of 5]

This guide was moderately helpful...just not quite as detailed as I would like a guide to be. I also had it on my Kindle, so maybe I felt some challenges with that. It totally worked though and got us where we needed to go!