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• MOVIE: "Fado Celeste" filmed, in part, at our Casa Villa Serra (Feb2010).
  Review found at "Fado Celeste" opens at São Jorge Cinema
  
• Fine Living Television: Around the World in 80 Days (program inactive; link is to archived pages)
  European Life
  "The owners provide concierge service to answer questions about your trip and arrange visitors passes for the electric trams, buses and museums."
• MSNBC's Well-Mannered Traveler
  How to behave in that home away from home
  The incognito Well-Mannered Traveler snuck up on us at Casa Travessa:
  "THIS is what we came back to Lisbon for - a real place to stay
  in a real neighborhood... We'll send friends your way. "
• Portuguese TV: "Praça da Alegria- 19 May 2010
  Chef Diogo Varela talks about VisitingPortugal's Private Fado Tours and In-Home Cooking Classes, as well as the launch of his most recent movie concerning the life and work of Celeste Rodrigues. (In Portuguese)
  Click to view video
• About.com James Martin's Guide to Europe Travel
  Culinary Lisbon for the Independent Traveler
  "The folks at Visiting Portugal have a novel idea. Rent a home in Lisbon's Historic Preservation District and
  you can also add on a one-time Lisbon cooking class"
• Notícias Sábado - Portugal's weekly news magazine (in Portuguese; April 2010)
  Chef Diogo Varela
  "Diogo Varela gives cooking classes to tourists and, being the proud grandson and nephew of Fadistas Celeste and Amália Rodrigues, shows them Fado's inner workings... "
• Alastair Sawday's Special Places to Stay - Portugal
  "No better way to start the day...", read more on pages 90 and 91.
  
• Junior Jetsetter's Guide to Lisbon
  This new publication recommends our "amazing" Lisbon properties on page 187.
  

Blogs

• Gadling, December 2008
  The Blog as Vacation Tool
  Regarding our technology amenities:
  "I love seeing vacation rentals adapt with the times. Nice work, Deb."
• Autumn Cottage Diarist, May 2006
  Home again, Home again
  "If you want to see real, living communities still functioning organically,
  I can't help but think that you should go NOW!"