Perched in the mountains of the Serra da Lousã, Talasnal captivates travellers. This slate-built village, now almost abandoned, is home to just one permanent resident – a discreet guardian of Portugal ...

Late in 1904, grief-stricken Tomàs travels from Lisbon to the High Mountains of Portugal, only to remark upon his arrival: "There are no mountains in the High Mountains of Portugal." In a novel by ...

“This place was sculpted by ice,” said my hiking guide Rodrigo Marques, as he gestured towards granite ridges that receded into the distance like a dark, choppy Atlantic ocean. “These deep u-shaped ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Pack your bags: Fifteen years after “The Life of Pi,” Yann Martel is taking us on another long journey. Fans of his Man Booker Prize-winning novel will ...