Ascensor da Gloria

This guide is for anyone visiting Portugal in the summer that wants to get down to the Algarve and see some incredible towns and beaches. This itinerary has you spending most of your trip in the Algarve. However, it does not leave out Lisbon and Sintra as I feel both of these locations are essential and not to be missed. This guide will be full of suggestions for things to do, see, and eat, and many many beaches that are worth visiting! It's a GREAT summer itinerary for visiting Portugal. This guide takes you through Sintra, Tavira, Albufiera, Lagos, and Lisbon. It also features quite a few stops in between! This guide will feature things that I have personally done and are vetted by me and my experience through my time in Portugal. This itinerary is done with a car.

Lisbon is one of those cities that I know we’ll keep going back to throughout our lives. This beautiful city has so much to offer. The hills are a huge part of the charm, the views from so many different locations are breathtaking. The tile buildings here are beautiful and so unique. The trolleys and funiculars add to the experience and make traversing the city so much fun. The food is excellent, there are so many options, and so much to see. It is easy to understand why Lisbon is a popular place of residence for expats from all over the world, we could actually see ourselves living in Lisbon some day, too. I have been to Lisbon multiple times so I have a lot of recommendations here!  Hopefully you can pick and choose what suits you best on your stay in Lisbon! The things I've listed should give you more than enough to do for a few days. This guide will include everything I've personally done in Lisbon with honest details about each location. I will also list some wish-list spots in a section at the end that includes things that I still haven't done yet in Lisbon that I have planned and researched and hope to do on a future visit.