This Douro River cruise offers stunning scenery, historic Portuguese towns and plenty of wine tasting

Vintage Douro Delights: This Portuguese river cruise offers stunning landscapes, historic towns and plenty of wine tasting. Sara Macefield boards Riviera Travel's Douro Splendor riverboat in Porto for a cruise on the Douro River. Along the way, she stops to explore the lands of the baronial. Mateus Palace in the river town of ReguaThe river has been tamed by dams with locks which are the highest in Europe - "attractions in their own right"
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Posted: 11:33 GMT, 9 November 2022 | Update: Nov 9, 2022 11:33 GMT The hills of the city of Porto have been the homeland of Port wines since the 1750s.
This hinterland remote has Unesco World Heritage status as the world's first demarcated wine region, where rustic quintas, or wineries, cling to vine-draped terraces on slopes so defying gravity they are still tended by hand.
My first taste comes after our riverboat, the aptly named Douro Splendor, leaves Porto under a ghostly shroud of morning mist. ...

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This Douro River cruise offers stunning scenery, historic Portuguese towns and plenty of wine tasting

Vintage Douro Delights: This Portuguese river cruise offers stunning landscapes, historic towns and plenty of wine tasting. Sara Macefield boards Riviera Travel's Douro Splendor riverboat in Porto for a cruise on the Douro River. Along the way, she stops to explore the lands of the baronial. Mateus Palace in the river town of ReguaThe river has been tamed by dams with locks which are the highest in Europe - "attractions in their own right"

Posted: 11:33 GMT, 9 November 2022 | Update: Nov 9, 2022 11:33 GMT The hills of the city of Porto have been the homeland of Port wines since the 1750s.

This hinterland remote has Unesco World Heritage status as the world's first demarcated wine region, where rustic quintas, or wineries, cling to vine-draped terraces on slopes so defying gravity they are still tended by hand.

My first taste comes after our riverboat, the aptly named Douro Splendor, leaves Porto under a ghostly shroud of morning mist. Sara Macefield boards Riviera Travel's Douro Splendor riverboat for a cruise on the Douro River. Where the river meanders through northern Portugal (above), Most of the 105 guests aboard the Douro Splendor (above) are retired Britons, reveals Sara ...