Key spots worth your time — with practical info to plan fast.
The waterways that earned Aveiro its 'Portuguese Venice' tag — canals threading the centre between art nouveau façades, humpback bridges and the painted prows of moliceiro boats.
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A 45-minute cruise on Aveiro's painted boats — built to harvest lagoon seaweed, now gliding the canals with their famously cheeky prow paintings. The essential Aveiro experience.
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A Dominican convent holding the tomb of Princess Santa Joana, the king's daughter who chose the cloister — gilded baroque, a marble masterpiece tomb and five centuries of sacred art.
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The beach village of the candy-striped houses — fishermen's palheiros painted in bold verticals facing the lagoon, with Atlantic surf and seafood restaurants across the dune.
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A wild peninsula of dunes and pine between ocean and lagoon, reached by ferry — marked trails through one of Portugal's best-preserved dune systems, ending on an empty Atlantic beach.
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The white salt pyramids of the Ria — working marinhas beside the city centre where salt is still raked by hand, with an ecomuseum pan, flamingos in the shallows and salt-water spa pools in summer.
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