🇵🇹Portugal
Yellow trams on cobbled hills, port wine aged in river-front lodges, and palaces built by romantics on a misty green ridge. The best value in Western Europe, and the friendliest introduction to it.
Cities
Seven hills, yellow trams and tiled façades above a river the size of a sea. Western Europe's best-value capital, and one of the few where the historic centre is still somewhere people live.
Day budget
$80–150
Cheap meal
$11–16
Mid hotel
$85–160
Granite, port wine and a river gorge spanned by six bridges. Smaller, cheaper and grittier than Lisbon, and a lot of people quietly prefer it.
Day budget
$70–130
Cheap meal
$9.00–14
Mid hotel
$70–130
A misty green hill outside Lisbon that Portuguese royalty and rich romantics covered in palaces. Extraordinary, tiny, and overwhelmed by lunchtime — the whole trick is going early.
Day budget
$65–130
Cheap meal
$9.00–14
Mid hotel
$75–150