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  • Portugal: Plan to shop

    This is a country with a wealth of crafts—from superbly woven baskets to beautifully embroidered linens, to irresistible porcelain and pottery (you might want to pack your own Bubble Wrap and tape to get the latter home safely). Items made of cork, leather, and wood should make your list; so should port and other local wines. The fashion-design scene is thriving here as well: top names include Ana Salazar, Fátima Lopes, Maria Gambina, Manuel Alves, and José Manuel Gonçalves.

    Posted by Fodor's Editors on October 31, 2010 at 2:00:00 AM EDT in Travel Tips

  • Portugal: Try to catch a fado show

    The word fado means fate, and, like the blues, fado songs are full of fatalism. The image of a black-shawled fadista, head thrown back, eyes closed with emotion, voice rising and falling with soulful song, is quintessentially Portuguese. Many casas de fado are also restaurants; some offer a mix of fado and folk-dancing shows.

    Posted by Fodor's Editors on March 11, 2010 at 2:00:00 AM EST in Travel Tips

  • 9 Picturesque Towns in Europe: What Would You Add?

    Our editors recently chose the most picturesque towns in Europe, and the result was published in Fodor's Essential Europe. You can find our choices below—but we're never happy to let the discussion end there. We wanted to know what the travelers in our Europe forums had to say as well, so we asked them: did their favorites appear on our list? What would they add?

    Posted by Fodor's Editors on August 12, 2009 at 2:49:31 PM EDT in Tagged: Community, England, France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland

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