{"id":29062,"date":"2012-01-26T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=29062"},"modified":"2023-02-14T01:26:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T09:26:45","slug":"three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Things We Didn&#8217;t Know About Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/EdTravelingBoitabo.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Boitano, Curator\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What are some of the \u201cthings\u201d or activities that Portuguese people do for fun?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANSWER:<\/strong> Portuguese love the simple things like enjoying a great meal with friends and family (sometimes it can last 2 or 3 hours), walk on the beach, or to dance in one of the many popular street festivals that go on year-round the country, travel from village to village and discover unique things as well as savor local dishes, wines and sweets. And we love to listen to \u2013 and even to sing Fado.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/3things\/3things-portugal1b.jpg\" width=\"547\" height=\"410\"><br>Photo by Jose Manuel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/3things\/portugal1f.jpg\" width=\"547\" height=\"673\"><br>Photo by Jose Manuel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s one thing the public probably does NOT know about Portugal?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANSWER:<\/strong> Portugal has more castles per capita in the world, we are Europe\u2019s highest consumers of fish and shellfish, with annual per capita consumption of close to 60Kg according to Fish Farmer Magazine. Plus we are also the biggest cork producer in the world, that we are the oldest country in Europe (in terms of borders), that we have the oldest demarcated wine region in the world. In fact, we have more than 200 unique Portuguese wine grapes. And, we have one of the mildest climates in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/3things\/portugal1d.jpg\" width=\"547\" height=\"367\"><br>Photo by Associaca de Turismo dos Acores<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/3things\/portugal1e.jpg\" width=\"547\" height=\"701\"><br>Photo by ADXTUR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Share some aspect of Portugal as regards to what it has contributed to the world?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANSWER:<\/strong> We discovered the maritime route to Brazil and India \u2013 creating the first international trade-based economy. We brought horses to Japan; spices, coffee, and tea to Europe; and gave the world the pasteis de nata \u2013 plus our vinho de alhos recipes have spread from Africa, to India to Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/3things\/portugal1c.jpg\" width=\"547\" height=\"356\"><br>Photo by Jose Manuel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For further information about Portugal, click-on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitportugal.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.visitportugal.com<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portugalglobal.pt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.portugalglobal.pt<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insideportugaltravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.insideportugaltravel.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are some of the \u201cthings\u201d or activities that Portuguese people do for fun? ANSWER: Portuguese love the simple things like enjoying a great meal with friends and family (sometimes it can last 2 or 3 hours), walk on the beach, or to dance in one of the many popular street festivals that go on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":29063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,6043,6047,198,3690,5306,6046,6045,6041,6044,6042],"class_list":["post-29062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3-things","tag-castles","tag-cork","tag-fado","tag-featured","tag-fish","tag-grapes","tag-long-meals","tag-mildest-climate","tag-pasteis-de-nata","tag-shellfish","tag-vinho-de-alhos"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Three Things We Didn&#039;t Know About Portugal - Traveling Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Three Things We Didn&#039;t Know About Portugal - Traveling Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What are some of the \u201cthings\u201d or activities that Portuguese people do for fun? ANSWER: Portuguese love the simple things like enjoying a great meal with friends and family (sometimes it can last 2 or 3 hours), walk on the beach, or to dance in one of the many popular street festivals that go on &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Traveling Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-01-26T19:08:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-14T09:26:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Portugal-Lead.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"361\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"347\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ed Boitano\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ed Boitano\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ed Boitano\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/#\/schema\/person\/cc5e9b0798361556863d3d8f10280368\"},\"headline\":\"Three Things We Didn&#8217;t Know About Portugal\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-01-26T19:08:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-14T09:26:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/\"},\"wordCount\":294,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Portugal-Lead.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"castles\",\"cork\",\"Fado\",\"featured\",\"fish\",\"grapes\",\"long meals\",\"mildest climate\",\"pasteis de nata\",\"shellfish\",\"vinho de alhos\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Three Things About...\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/\",\"name\":\"Three Things We Didn't Know About Portugal - Traveling Archive\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Portugal-Lead.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-01-26T19:08:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-14T09:26:45+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/#\/schema\/person\/cc5e9b0798361556863d3d8f10280368\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Portugal-Lead.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Portugal-Lead.jpg\",\"width\":361,\"height\":347},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Three Things We Didn&#8217;t Know About Portugal\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/\",\"name\":\"Traveling Archive\",\"description\":\"Traveling Adventures\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/#\/schema\/person\/cc5e9b0798361556863d3d8f10280368\",\"name\":\"Ed Boitano\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c89b0ccad1c0b879bf4de47ee404f8691fdb8f72ef939a4b8320f2c93b4b2b7?s=96&d=retro&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c89b0ccad1c0b879bf4de47ee404f8691fdb8f72ef939a4b8320f2c93b4b2b7?s=96&d=retro&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ed Boitano\"},\"description\":\"A Seattle native, Ed Boitano has devoted 25-years of his life to writing about travel. As a descendant of both Leif Ericson and Christopher Columbus, the Amer-Norsk-Italian Boitano quite literally has a passion for travel to unexplored locations in his blood. He has traveled to over 56 nations, including Antarctica and the Arctic Circle, as well as lived with a nomadic Basque shepherd family outside of Bakersfield, California for six hours. He brings to Traveling Boy a love of all forms of travel, and a disdain for any lamb food products.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/author\/ed\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Three Things We Didn't Know About Portugal - Traveling Archive","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Three Things We Didn't Know About Portugal - Traveling Archive","og_description":"What are some of the \u201cthings\u201d or activities that Portuguese people do for fun? ANSWER: Portuguese love the simple things like enjoying a great meal with friends and family (sometimes it can last 2 or 3 hours), walk on the beach, or to dance in one of the many popular street festivals that go on &hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/","og_site_name":"Traveling Archive","article_published_time":"2012-01-26T19:08:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-02-14T09:26:45+00:00","og_image":[{"width":361,"height":347,"url":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Portugal-Lead.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Ed Boitano","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ed Boitano","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/"},"author":{"name":"Ed Boitano","@id":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/#\/schema\/person\/cc5e9b0798361556863d3d8f10280368"},"headline":"Three Things We Didn&#8217;t Know About Portugal","datePublished":"2012-01-26T19:08:00+00:00","dateModified":"2023-02-14T09:26:45+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/"},"wordCount":294,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Portugal-Lead.jpg","keywords":["castles","cork","Fado","featured","fish","grapes","long meals","mildest climate","pasteis de nata","shellfish","vinho de alhos"],"articleSection":["Three Things About..."],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/","url":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/","name":"Three Things We Didn't Know About Portugal - Traveling Archive","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Portugal-Lead.jpg","datePublished":"2012-01-26T19:08:00+00:00","dateModified":"2023-02-14T09:26:45+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/#\/schema\/person\/cc5e9b0798361556863d3d8f10280368"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Portugal-Lead.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Portugal-Lead.jpg","width":361,"height":347},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/three-things-we-didnt-know-about-portugal\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Three Things We Didn&#8217;t Know About Portugal"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/#website","url":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/","name":"Traveling Archive","description":"Traveling Adventures","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/#\/schema\/person\/cc5e9b0798361556863d3d8f10280368","name":"Ed Boitano","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c89b0ccad1c0b879bf4de47ee404f8691fdb8f72ef939a4b8320f2c93b4b2b7?s=96&d=retro&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c89b0ccad1c0b879bf4de47ee404f8691fdb8f72ef939a4b8320f2c93b4b2b7?s=96&d=retro&r=g","caption":"Ed Boitano"},"description":"A Seattle native, Ed Boitano has devoted 25-years of his life to writing about travel. As a descendant of both Leif Ericson and Christopher Columbus, the Amer-Norsk-Italian Boitano quite literally has a passion for travel to unexplored locations in his blood. He has traveled to over 56 nations, including Antarctica and the Arctic Circle, as well as lived with a nomadic Basque shepherd family outside of Bakersfield, California for six hours. He brings to Traveling Boy a love of all forms of travel, and a disdain for any lamb food products.","url":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/author\/ed\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31363,"href":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29062\/revisions\/31363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}