"The most outdated piece of travel advice about Portugal is that it’s a small, cheap destination. That image might have drawn ...

Madeira probably isn’t the first place that comes to mind when you think golf, but a new course opening later this year may put it on the map.

Mallorca's surprise victory as Europe's #1 hiking destination proves that the best adventures often come from unexpected places. This Spanish island has quietly built one of the continent's most ...

Standing on a clifftop outside Vila Nova de Milfontes, I’m getting a glimpse of what draws hikers to the Fisherman’s Trail along the Rota Vicentina in southern Portugal. Copper-colored cliffs plunge ...

When Sheila Claudio-Gomez, of Ridge, set out from Ferrol, a small Spanish town, on Oct. 5, she wasn’t seeking a vacation. She was looking to tackle a physical and spiritual journey. “I followed a ...

First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide. My wife, Tracy, and I are winding our way along the Portuguese Camino.

I’m not religious. But I was raised Catholic—baptized, schooled, and taught to pray at church altars where priests heard confession. The tolling of bells during mass always felt like a call to reflect ...

Carving out time to walk a lesser-crowded Camino with his parents, our writer found himself immersed in several days of more than just walking, with reconnection, rain, morriña, mudbaths and random ...

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Spain has deployed another 500 soldiers to battle wildfires that have spread across parts of the country in scorching conditions - taking the total to 1,900. The fires have burned 158,000 hectares so ...

Record Spanish Wildfires Close Part of Camino De Santiago Route By Nacho Doce and Guillermo Martinez ASTORGA, Spain (Reuters) -Spain's worst wave of wildfires on record spread to the southern slopes ...