II · Private, up to 6 guests · about 8 hours · day trip from Porto, car and driver included

Aveiro & the Coast

An hour south of Porto, the canals run through the middle of town and the architecture turns to Art Nouveau — one of my favourite places in Portugal, and the reason I can talk about tiles for far too long. We skip the canal-boat queue and walk the centre instead, then out to the salt pans, where salt is still raked by hand as it has been for centuries.

Then the choice is yours: Costa Nova for the striped houses and lunch by the water, or Vista Alegre in Ílhavo, where Portugal's royal porcelain has been made since 1824 — a museum, a factory and a small village built around it. Somewhere in the day there are the town's own sweets.

I'll take your photos along the way.

Price upon request

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