Fado - Portugal's soulful song

Azulejos - Portugal's painted tiles

Whole buildings dressed in blue-and-white pictures

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Pastel de nata - Portugal's secret-recipe tart

A crisp little custard tart with a 200-year-old secret

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Portugal's sailor-navigators

The people who learned to find their way across the open ocean by the stars

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Cork trees - the forest that gives without being cut

Portugal grows over half the world's cork, peeled from oak trees every nine years

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