What to do with your children in Portugal

The collection of the Marionette Museum  is one of the most important and complete collections of traditional Portuguese puppets. It includes a collection of Southeast Asian and African masks from collector Francisco Capelo, with exceptional quality examples of Oriental masks and puppets, from Java, Bali, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, India, Vietnam, China, and holds the nucleus of the most important European and Brazilian puppet families. 

Nothing is more fun for children than playing and running barefoot on the golden sand at the water's edge and building magnificent sand castles.

For lovers of fish and shellfish, the account is there, the restaurants along the beaches of Caparica serve fresh seafood as well as other small Portuguese and Brazilian dishes to choose from. 

Attention, treat for the taste buds of adults and children!

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The Science Museum located on the right bank of the Tagus, in the Parque des Nations, in Lisbon, has several educational activities to thrill your children, among others, science discoveries and various areas of games and skills.

The planetarium has an observatory with 32 projectors of more than 9000 stars, as well as the Milky Way, star clusters and nebulae, constellation figures and auxiliary teaching lines, providing the means to make the even more fascinating astronomy for children during their visit to the Calouste Gulbenkian Planetarium in Lisbon, Portugal. 

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This magnificent city at the edge of the water   offers its passers-by a tender and gentle atmosphere that emerges from walks along the water in the company of your children. Cascais bay has a small sandy beach with magnificent fishing boats.

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In the city center, a little carousel ride will be in order to make your tender sailors dream.

A little further, the equestrian center of Quinta da Marinha offers pony and horse riding. 

Monsanto is known to be the lung of Lisbon, with these green spaces, long walks and walks await you. You will be surprised by magnificent views. Several parks for children are there, therefore Serafina Park.

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