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Tell anyone you’re headed to Madeira, an archipelago off the coast of Morocco, and you’re likely to get a lot of blank looks.
While many travelers would opt to go island-hopping to explore diverse cultures, landscapes, and experiences, there are some ...
Read more: Rick Steves' Most And Least Favorite Places In Europe The glistening island of Culatra is only a few miles off the mainland coast of Portugal, in the area Rick Steves notes as the "Land ...
Volcanic São Miguel, one of the nine islands in this Portuguese archipelago in the Mid-Atlantic, offers landscapes and experiences that are at once wild and serene. Kerry Murray for The New York ...
Vienna thereby cancelled the Badajoz Treaty in 1801 which saw Portugal surrender Olivença to Spain and Napoleonic forces ending more than 500 years of Portugal rule, after it was founded in 1297.