For small-town, local vibes, travel expert Rick Steves recommends visiting this relaxed, historic city in Portugal just a few hours from Lisbon.

You can also see the Gothic tombs of Portugal's first two kings and visit the Café Santa Cruz inside a former chapel with stained glass. Don't miss the Roman ruins of Conimbriga just outside the ...

Back-Roads Touring (020 8987 0990; backroadstouring.com) has an eight-day Discover Portugal small group tour from £1,411 per person, calling at Lisbon, Porto, the Roman ruins at Conimbriga ...

The walled settlement was classified as a National Monument in 1910 and has some extremely well-conserved ruins ... s best-preserved Roman mosaics". Meanwhile, Portugal Visitor said it was ...

A severe drought in Europe has caused water levels to drop to the point where a previously submerged complex of Roman ruins is now visible ... the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and Spain.

In the process, the satellites documented hundreds of ancient Roman ruins. For decades ... the ancient Roman empire stretched from modern-day Portugal across central Europe to Turkey and Iraq.