Thursday 31 July 2014

A guide to Portugal’s Alentejo region, home of Europe’s finest beaches | Travel | The Guardian

A guide to Portugal’s Alentejo region, home of Europe’s finest beaches | Travel | The Guardian

Praia da Zambujeira, Portugal.

Praia da Zambujeira, Portugal. Photograph: Municipio Odemira/Turismo do Alentejo



Herdade da Nespereira windmill house, Alentejo, Portugal

Herdade da Nespereira windmill house, Alentejo, Portugal. Photograph: PR



Cerca do Sul guest house, Alentejo, Portugal

Cerca do Sul guest house is painted in the traditional Alentejo colours of white with a blue trim.



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Wednesday 30 July 2014

Lello Bookstore: The Most Beautiful Bookstore in the World | BOOK RIOT

Lello Bookstore: The Most Beautiful Bookstore in the World | BOOK RIOT



"Little did I know that when I went looking for the oldest bookstore in the world, I would find, just up the coast of the same country, what could very well be the most beautiful bookstore in the world. The Lello Bookstore was built in 1906 in Porto, Portugal by The Lello Brothers (Antonio and Jose) who formerly owned another bookstore a few streets away. Their new bookstore is one of the most ornate bookstores in the world, mixing Neo-Gothic and Art Dec elements (especially the facade, pictured below). Carved wood ceilings, a stain-glassed roof, an undulating, opulent red staircase, and even a built-in wheel-barrow on rails for moving the store’s 120,000 all make the Lello seem like the bookstore out of some fantasy-world (J.K. Rowling herself lived in Porto for a short while)."

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Jeff O'Neal is the editor of Book Riot. He also co-hosts The Book Riot Podcast. Follow him on Twitter: @readingape
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