The document provides information about several important cities and sites in Portugal, including Lisbon, Belém Tower, Expo Park, Porto, the Tower of Clérigos, Faro, Ria Formosa, and the Municipal Gallery Arcos. Key details about Lisbon include its status as the most visited city, coastal beaches and villages nearby, and cultural and culinary attractions. Belém Tower and its defensive purpose and Manueline architecture are summarized. Expo Park's transformation into a leisure destination with attractions, restaurants, and shopping is covered at high level. Brief overviews of Porto, the Tower of Clérigos, Faro, Ria Formosa, and the Municipal Gallery Arcos are also included

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2. Lisbon Lisbon , the most visited city in Portugal, has enough sights and facilities in and around the capital to make it your favourite tourist destination. The Lisbon Coast hosts some fine sandy beaches at Cascais and Estoril, fishing villages like Sesimbra and the forests and magical architecture of Sintra with its royal palaces and stunning vistas from Lisbon to the wild Atlantic. If that's not enough, take a boat along the Sado or Tagus for a nautical view of the coast. Lisbon's sophisticated shopping centres, fine hotels, gastronomy and culture combine with the climate to make this a great destination, 12 months of the year. With so much to offer, you'll wonder why you never visited the city of Lisbon sooner!

8. Ria Formosa The city of Faro has always been linked to the estuary, living with it face to face. Through its waters reached successive peoples - Tartessos, Phoenicians, Greeks, Celts, Carthaginians, Romans, Visigoths, Byzantine, Arabs, Normans, etc.. Some set up here and lived through cycles of change or crisis in the normal result of everyday life, others simply to loot and plunder. The river provided with all the abundance their wealth - the shellfish, fish, salt and charm ...

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