The most important cities of Portugal are:

Lisboa Porto Coimbra Faro Funchal

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Coimbra

Lisbon is the capital of Portugal and largest city of Portugal. The city, in addition to being the country's capital, is also capital of the district of Lisbon, the Lisbon region, the metropolitan area of Lisbon, and is still the main center of the sub-region of Greater Lisbon statistics.Lisbon has many tourist attractions. Their neighborhoods attract visitors by its typical characteristics. The low Pombaline, Bethlehem, Chiado and Bairro Alto, are areas where flooding thousands of tourists and visitors annually.

Rua augusta

Culture in Lisboa

Lisbon is a city with a vibrant cultural life, is considered a major European cultural centers. Older than Rome, epicenter of the discoveries and a vast empire from the fifteenth century, the city is accustomed to be the meeting point of several cultures, the first place where East, India, Africa and the Americas met and discovered.

Torre São Gabriel Parque das Nações.

The downtown Lisbon, also called Baixa Pombalina to have been built by order of the Marquês fo Pombal, following the earthquake of 1755, covering an area of about 23.5 hectares. Is between the Terreiro do Paço, near the River Tejo, and the Rossio and Praça da Figueira , and longitudinally between the Cais do Sodré, the Chiado and Carmo, on the one hand, and the Sé and the hill of Castelo de S. Jorge, the other .

Baixa de Lisboa

Today, Bethlehem contains several museums with green spaces, parks and gardens, with an attractive river environment with cafes and a promenade. Belem has several tourist sites such as the Jerónimos Monastery and the Tower of Belém.

Belém

Mosteiro dos Jerónimos and Praça do Império

Torre de Bélem

Bridge 25 de Abril

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Mosteiro dos Jeronimos

Baixa Chiado Elevador de Santa Justa

The Port is a Portuguese city.  City of Porto is known as the Capital of the North or the City Invicta. It is the city that gave the name to Portugal. The need for a permanent crossing between the two banks of the Douro to movement of persons and goods, led to the construction of the Bridge of Barcas.

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General Humberto Delgado's Square and Avenue of the Allies

Ponte Maria Pia, in the foreground. Behind the bridge of St. John

Culture in Porto

The city of Porto has many cultural references in the region and nationally. Among the many museums of the city, there is the Museum of Contemporary Art, one of the most visited museums in the country. The House of Music which is considered the music room with better acoustics in the world.

The House of Music

Pavilhão Rosa Mota in the gardens of the Palais de Cristal.

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Torre dos Clérigos Sé do Porto Ponte Maria Pia, in the foreground. Behind the Bridge of St. João that came to replace rail link.

Coimbra is a Portuguese city, capital of the district of Coimbra, the region's main city center Portugal.City historically of students. Coimbra is bathed by the river Mondego. It is considered one of the major Portuguese cities, due to infrastructure, organizations and companies that owns and serving the entire population, that its historical importance and privileged geographical position in the central region, it has focus.

Coimbra

Culture in Coimbra

The large space museum of Coimbra for excellence is the National Museum Machado de Castro next to the New Cathedral, located in the former Bishop's Palace in the city. Considered one of the most important museums in the country, has important collections of paintings, sculpture, jewelry, ceramics and textiles.

Sé Nova, Coimbra

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Old Cathedral of Coimbra

Faculty of Law

Faro is the capital of a Portuguese city of Faro District, and the oldest province of Algarve.  The council is limited to the north and west by the municipality of São Brás de Alportel, east of Olhão, Loulé by the west and south coast is in the Atlantic Ocean. The city is, through Faro Airport is the second largest entry of the foreign country.

Faro

Culture in Faro

There are several rooms to show in Faro such as the Teatro Municipal (Teatro das Figuras ) and the theater of Lethes. Various museums such as the Municipal Museu de Faro and the Living Science Center. Under other monuments and notable buildings.

The seminários and Paço Episcolpal (right) of the entry visas Cathedral of Faro.

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Cathedral of FaroMunicipal Museum of Faro

Funchal is a city on the Portuguese island of Madeira, capital of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, and the ninth most populous city of Portugal. The islands also depend administratively Wild of the county of Funchal, but do not constitute any parish. The Deserted depend on the nearby Santa Cruz.

Funchal, view west.

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Botanical garden of funchal