Douro Valley & Amarante Wine, Food & Boat Tour from Porto
Description
Embark on an immersive full-day trip through the Douro Valley and Amarante, starting from Porto. Discover stunning landscapes, regional flavors and unique cultural experiences. Includes pick-up at the hotel, the iconic N222 route to Peso da Régua and a guided tour to a farm with three distinct wines: Porto Wine, sparkling wine and Green Wine, with an explanation on the production methods. In Pinhão, enjoy a private cruise on the Douro River with regional tapas and wines. Continue to Amarante to explore the historic center and the Church of São Gonçalo, taste the traditional local pastel and Green Wine. Finish with snacks in a typical bag before returning to Porto, around 3:30 p.m.
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Itinerary
The tour starts at the meeting point, outside Trinity Porto R. dos Heroes and Martyrs of Angola 49, 4000 - 285 Porto, Portugal
Get to the city of Peso da Régua and taste a traditional sandwich cake, the famous sandwich cake of Portugal. Explore the pedestrian bridge overlooking the river Douro, a perfect spot for photographs.
Port wine tasting in Quinta with visit and wine tasting.
Passage through the centre of Pinhão (Railway Station) Boat tour on the river Douro (1 hour) in a small group, only with customers of our company, providing an intimate experience. Tapas Brunch on board the boat with regional delicacies like the smoker, the traditional meatball and other local delicacies, accompanied by Douro wines.
Guided walking tour through the Historic Center of Amarante to explore its rich history, architecture and charming streets. Taste of Doce de São Gonçalo in Amarante to get to know the tradition of local sweets. Regional Fumeiro and Green Wine Tasting in a traditional tasquinha in the historic area of Amarante
The tour ends at the same meeting point.
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Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Important note: We only serve alcoholic beverages to travelers aged 18 or older. Travellers under 18 years old will receive non-alcoholic beverages."
- Not recommended for people with reduced mobility
Reviews(107)
I never saw so many vineyards in my life! The Douro valley was covered in them. Very eye-opening. We enjoyed the boat ride and treats, the winery tour and tasting, and the tour of Amarante. Catarina was great, very knowledgable and entertaining.
Wow! This was a wonderful way to experience the Douro wine valley. The boat with Jesus was our favorite part!! It was the perfect length of time, not too long but not too short and our guide Manuel was the best! Would recommend! Just a heads up: if you get carsick easily this might be a hard trip for you. Lots of winding roads and if the bus is full it gets hot in the back.
This is a great trip. Beautiful drive. Just the right length for the day. 1 Winery, boat , lunch, cathedral. It’s a bit of drive but great in an air conditioned sprinter. Our tour guide Carlos was amazing. Highly recommend.
Fantastic trip, really well organised and really friendly staff. Miguel was our host who was super informative and very nice. Great value based on the things we saw and all the food and wine!
This is the second time I booked this tour and was so happy to see that Catarina was our guide. She makes the entire day fun and informative. Highly recommend this tour to enhance your visit to Portugal!
Victor, our host, and Nina, our driver were both fabulous! A wonderful experience! It ended too soon.
Excellent day trip out of Porto in a clean and on time van with a fun tour guide, Victor. The Douro Valley is a gorgeous drive, vineyard for wine tasting had such a lovely trellised patio with an amazing view, the river boat ride was spacious and Amarante is definitely a town to see among all the other neighboring towns of Porto. Highly recommended! The only thing I would change is the title of the tour that made me believe we were riding a boat straight out of Porto.
It was an experiment that we intended to do for some time... It was simply wonderful, as the guide António Cardoso made the experience unforgettable with his kindness, sympathy, and ability to explain the whole experience to the smallest detail. We intend to return and will highly recommend to our core of friends. Thank you from the heart António, you are one of those people who mark us for life.
A great combination of activities that don't take up the whole day: winery, boat trip and lunch. Victor was a great tour guide: thoughtful, informative, and entertaining. The driver was very experiencedand we felt we were in safe hands. Staff on the boat were attentive and engaging. The winery was lovely and the guide very informative.
This was a great tour from start to finish, never a boring minute thanks to Carlos our tour guide, I really enjoyed the tour of the Church
