Portugal at the Right Scale
Small group tours in Portugal split naturally between two cities built on different materials.
Lisbon works in tiles and hillsides — a tapas walk through Alfama into a sunset sail on the Tagus, Pena Palace and the cliffs of Cabo da Roca on foot, horseback along Comporta's dunes.
Porto answers in granite and river, its Douro Valley, the oldest demarcated wine region in the world — a river cruise past the port wine cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia, a tasting inside one of them, a stop at the Lello Bookshop.
Led by a specialist guide, sized to the experience — up to 30 for the city's bigger routes, as few as 6 where the details are the whole point.