DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Portugal

Eyewitness Travel Guides

by D.K. Publishing

Discover Portugal with this essential travel guide, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you to this beautiful country before you've even packed your case - explore the cosmopolitan cities of Lisbon and Porto, become a connoisseur of the country's port in the Douro valley, drive the rugged Atlantic Coast, island-hop around the Azores, or relax on Madeira's golden beaches. The DK Eyewitness Guide to Portugal covers the must-see sights and the hidden backstreets, so you won't miss a thing.

- Gorgeous, all-new colour photography so you can imagine yourself there
- Reasons to love Portugal: stunning beaches, colourful azulejos, historic towns - what will yours be?
- See Portugal from a different angle - 22 pages of fresh ideas for exploring this spectacular country
- A year-long calendar of events in Portugal gives a selection of local events and festivals for all seasons
- Expert advice covers the practical stuff: get ready, get around and stay safe
- Over 20 detailed, colour maps help you navigate the country with ease
- Expert tips to make memories that last - where to snap and share the perfect photo, take in stunning views and escape the crowds
- The most authentic places to stay, eat, drink and shop
- Easy-to-follow walks and itineraries take you on a tour of each area, with plenty of eat and drink stops en route
- Hand-drawn illustrations show the inside of the must-see attractions, including Sintra's Palácio da Pena, Belém's Mosteiro dos Jerónimos and Coimbra's University
- Covers Lisbon - Alfama, Baixa and Avenida, Bairro Alto and Estrela, Belém and Beyond the Centre - the Lisbon Coast, Estremadura and Ribatejo, the Beiras, Porto, Douro and Trás-os-Montes, Minho, Alentejo, the Algarve, Madeira and the Azores

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Portugal is a detailed, easy-to-use guide designed to help you create your own unique trip.

Planning a city break? Try our DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Lisbon.

About DK Eyewitness Travel: For 25 years, DK's beautifully practical Eyewitness guides have been combining inspiring ideas and expert advice with easy-to-read maps and vivid photography to inform and enrich your holiday. Now they have a stunning new look that you will love even more. DK is the world's leading illustrated reference publisher, producing beautifully designed books for adults and children in over 120 countries.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Reference, Portugal

400 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 1997

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Inge · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was easy to read and there is still a lot of information in this book what is the easiest way of travel.
What is possible and what can you see. How many islands can you do and the hours of the musea.

[Michael Kerjman · Rating 4 out of 5]

As usual for Yeywitness, it's a picturesque book providing a vast info of out-from-fairytale county living five hundred years in peace.
Personally, I somehow omitted a segment of the most western point of Europe which is a beautiful unforgettable panoramic place itself.

[Erin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent resource. So many great tips. Really helped me plan my vacation

[Stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting review of Portuguese history and geography as well as plenty of information for actual travellers. The book is filled with classic DK diagrams describing things like traditional building materials, layouts of buildings, maps and other guides. It is an easy read and I learned a lot from it. It made me want to visit the Azores in particular.

Interesting factoid: the highest point in Portugal is a volcanic peak in the Azores, hundreds of miles from the mainland. I found that interesting because for Spain too, the highest peak is hundreds of miles from the Spanish mainland on the Canary island of Tenerife (also a volcano).

[Book Nibbler · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great intro guide to Portugal. The book is pretty compact with small font and lots of colorful images. The main con for me is trying to locate the maps within the book when it refers to them.

The table of contents:
Intro - History of Portugal
Lisbon
Central Portugal
Northern Portugal
Southern Portugal
Portugal's Islands
Traveller's Needs - Where to Stay
Survival Guide

[Klaas Bisschop · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nieuwe editie, nieuwe vormgeving, óók in Nederlandse vertaling.
Een aantal leuke elementen uit de oude vormgeving zijn vervallen.
Ik mis de overzichtspagina voorin op het omslag. Het overzicht van alle regio's met kleurcode en pagina nummer was heel handig als snelle index. Nu moest ik steeds bladeren (naar pag. 15). Onhandig. De binnenkant van het omslag is nu onbedrukt - gemiste kans.
Al heeft het omslag nog wel flappen de extra inkeping/vouw is verdwenen. Met extra inkeping functioneerde het praktisch als bladwijzer. Weer een handigheidje minder.
Het glimmende papier is vervangen. Dat maakt de (altijd best spectaculaire) foto's en doorsneetekeningen minder sprankelend en minder scherp. Maar het boek ook minder zwaar, dat is dan een voordeel(tje).
Er zijn 'weetjes' toegevoegd, maar die voegen zelf niet veel toe, zijn zelfs regelmatig nogal flauw.
Verder zijn de karakteristieke 'Capitool-eigenschappen' wel bewaard gebleven.
Per saldo geen vooruitgang, maar ik denk dat de productie in zijn 'klassieke' vorm te kostbaar zijn geworden. Ik ga toch kijken naar een alternatief.

[Darren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Full of awesome pictures and sort of 3-D maps. Maybe not as much information as Lonely Planet guides but it makes up for it with the great colorful views of the country.

[Patricia Murphy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a helpful book during our travels because it gave big picture information.

[Jolianna · Rating 3 out of 5]

nicht schlecht, aber wenn man danach den lonely planet liest, kann vis a vis nicht mithalten.

[mairywo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Again a really good Vis-à-Vis travel guide. They live up to their high price. Lots of photos, maps and illustrations. The list of hotels and restaurants is also really good and up to date.

[Rob Whiteman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant value book. Helps plan your travelling better than most travel guides. We have them for each country that we visit.

[Caitlin · Rating 1 out of 5]

I did not like this guide at all. I won't use them again.