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Google Maps Portugal

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Google Maps is available for Portugal. Google has free maps of Portugal inside Google Maps. These include road and street maps of major and minor cities, towns, and rural areas of Portugal. Check out Google maps of Portugal here:


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Trains from Lisbon to Madrid

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

Trains from Lisbon to Madrid run nightly from Lisbon’s Santa Apolonia train station to Madrid Chamartin train station. Trains also stop at Lisbon Oriente train station.

The train that travels from Lisbon to Madrid is the Lusitania Comboio Trenhotel train. Despite the trenhotel name, don’t mistake this for a luxury train from Lisbon to Madrid. It’s a standard train with sleeping cars.

There is a Lusitania Comboio Trenhotel train from Lisbon to Madrid daily at 10:30pm, arriving in Madrid at 8:58am.

Keep in mind that there is a one hour time difference between Lisbon, which is on GMT, and Madrid, which is on CET.

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Trains from Lisbon to Coimbra

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Coimbra
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Trains from Lisbon to Coimbra run daily from Lisbon’s Entrecampos train station to Coimbra-B train station.

Trains from Lisbon to Coimbra are Alfa Pendular (AP) trains.

There is an AP train from Lisbon to Coimbra daily at 9:57am and 5:57pm.

The train journey from Lisbon to Coimbra on AP trains takes 1h48m.

A second class train fare on AP trains from Lisbon to Coimbra costs 20.50EUR one way.


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