Ericeira & Mafra’s Wonders - Rural Beach & Wine Private Tour
Ericeira & Mafra’s Wonders - Rural Beach & Wine Private Tour
Ericeira & Mafra’s Wonders - Rural Beach & Wine Private Tour
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Portugal offers so much more than what typical travel guides suggest. Skip the mass tourism and join us as we explore Mafra and Ericeira.
Start your day with a hotel pickup and head to the village of Mafra, where you'll find the UNESCO-listed Mafra Convent. This impressive site features Baroque and Neoclassical architecture, including the Basilica, dormitories, a hospital, and a renowned library that houses 36,000 books.
Next, we'll visit the unique José Franco Museum, which is a living replica of a traditional Portuguese village, showcasing rural life from the mid-20th century.
Then, we’ll continue to Ericeira, recognized as Europe’s first World Surfing Reserve, famous for its charming blue and white streets. You'll have free time for lunch or a leisurely stroll by the seaside.
To conclude the day, we'll visit a family-run winery. You'll tour the cellars, learn about the wine production process, and enjoy exceptional wines paired with local bread and olives.
Itinerary
Palacio Nacional de Mafra
1 hours 30 minsAdmission Ticket Not IncludedSay Hello to Portugal’s biggest monument: a grandiose palace-monastery that defies description. This Baroque masterpiece from the eighteenth century and its unique features. for its two carillons with 92 bells, 1200 rooms, over 4,700 doors and windows but its gem is the library, the oldest in the country with about 36,000 volumes of books and transcripts!Aldeia Museu Jose Franco
30 minsAdmission Ticket FreeThe “Antique Costumes village Museum”– Ready to travel back in time? At the quaint Portuguese one of a kind living museum where you will be transported to 1945 to have a glams of the Portuguese rural life, it’s customs, labor activities and traditions. The author of this giant museum made into a village, a sculptor and a poet, preserved the memory of an era and made perfectionism into small details.Aldeia Da Mata Pequena
30 minsAdmission Ticket FreeWe will travel to the country side into the rural west, where you will get to see antique villages full of traditions and costumes such as this one!Ericeira
1 hoursAdmission Ticket FreeSat on cliffs overlooking the Atlantic a charming fishing village known for its blue & white houses, tiled windows, narrow cobbled streets and obviously superb seafood restaurants! Its outstanding 4km of stunning beaches are an icon for Surf-lovers globally as it is one of only a handful of protected surf locations in the world and the first Surfing Reserve in Europe! Here, ‘’where the sea is bluer’ enjoy your free time, for possibly a leisurely Portuguese lunch (not included) or a stroll through the town and by the seaside while you sink in this Vila’s different scenarios – a rural fishing village full of history and at the same timeCheleiros
1 hours 30 minsAdmission Ticket FreeLast but not least, to finish this exclusive day, a tour to an exquisite wine related location for a tasting experience that will provide you with a fascinating insight into the world of Portugal’s wine production. A family run business that welcomes you for an entertaining and enlightening tour around vines and cellars, to discover the secrets of the wine making process revealed by the experts, experience how wine is produced from harvest until it reaches your table and enjoy a tasting session of six different wines (four local wines and two other magnificent wines) accompanied by local bread and olives.
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