However, to be able to fully take advantage of the area, the idea time to visit the Douro Valley is during the harvest season when the vineyards are ready to crop and the colours are truly ...

People also flock to this area during many of the city's festivals, such as Festa de São João in June, and on New Year's Eve to see the fireworks displays. Foz do Douro Located about 3 miles ...

The Douro Valley is a place of extremes. Heat that shimmers off the schist, slopes so steep they’d give a mountain goat vertigo, a river that slices through the landscape like a well-aimed sabre.