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Douro's Valleys & Vineyards 2024 Itinerary Porto to Porto Viking®

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Table Of Content Preparing to Set Sail on the Douro Stylish Travel Clothes You Need For Your Next Trip Barca d’Alva Visiting a local winery, we learned all about the wine making process, before tasting some of their best vintages of course. Afterwards the Viking passengers were taken to another local winery for a long and leisurely lunch that was as much fun as I’ve had in a long time. Put all together, that day spent in a very small village was special, certainly unique and nothing I would have discovered on my own. A big reason why many people choose to take a river cruise on the Douro River is for the wine, and Porto provides a hint as to why. Preparing to Set Sail on the Douro This makes the trip much slower-paced than a cruise on the Danube or the Rhine River. It’s more about relaxing and enjoying the scenery, which is spectacular, especially as you move farther north, where river access through the valley is more recent. Our Portugal cruises uncover one of Europe’s olde