An old fortified town on the beautiful estuary of the River Minho, the frontier between Portugal and Spain. It has two fabulous beaches, a small, sheltered one on the Minho and a huge expanse of windswept golden sand on the Atlantic. A few kilometres' drive further down the coast takes you to Praia de Afife, one of the best surfing beaches in Portugal. From Caminha a small car ferry takes you across the river to Spain where you can visit the ancient Celtic settlement on Mount Tecla.

North west Portugal, on the estuary of the River Minho.
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This is the largest complex of megalithic monuments in the Iberian peninsula. It includes the huge Zambujeiro dolmen, the Almendres menhir and the Almendres cromlech, a circle of 92 standing stones built around 4000 BC as an astronomical observatory. One dolmen in the area has even been made into a chapel, Nuestra Senora do Livramento.

Evora is in the Alentejo, 130 km south of Lisbon.
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Coimbra, built on a hilly site overlooking the River Mondego, was the country's capital in the Middle Ages, and has Europe's second oldest university, with Baroque and Manueline buildings clustered around a central quadrangle. The students wear traditional black capes decorated with ribbons coloured according to their faculty. The city has two impressive and very different cathedrals, the Romanesque Old Cathedral and Baroque New Cathedral. The extensive ruins of the original Roman city of Conimbriga have magnificent mosaic floors in an excellent state of preservation.

195 km North of Lisbon.
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