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Breakfast, Lunch
Our tour concludes with a tasting of vinho
verde—“green wine.” Alluding to the wine’s
young age and not its color, vinho verde may
Day 4 Explore Douro River region •
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Visit wine farm
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?ST^ XZ]YTYR bP QZWWZb _SP /Z`]Z =TaP] _Z afternoon.
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port is made and also enjoy a tasting. Breakfast, Dinner
After an included lunch, we return to Porto,
where dinner is on your own this evening.
Day 6 Explore Gaia • Gaia wine-tasting
Breakfast, Lunch
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region, one of the oldest protected wine
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Day 5 Optional Minho region tour
panoramic tour of the city, where a sea of red
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and ruins still dotting the landscape. Our SL^ MPPY L ^_L[WP ZQ _SP WZNLW PNZYZXd ^TYNP
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the nation’s origins. In the tenth century, a NWL^^TʭNL_TZY SLaP SPW[PO XLTY_LTY STRS
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considered tearing it down in the 19th return to Porto.
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visit the restored and preserved castle today. /TYYP] T^ ZY dZ`] ZbY _ST^ PaPYTYR
Breakfast, Lunch
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world’s oldest Catholic archdioceses. Its heart
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