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Spain and Portugal are doable in the same trip but it depends on the kind of travel you're making. If you want to land in a place and explore it, i'd say you can get similar thrills in Spain and Portugal. Apart from similarities there are also differences. Spain is more adapted to tourism than Portugal, but it is also more similar in general, whereas north and central/south Portugal are completely different places. Spain has wonderful cities up north imho. Never been to Barcelona, but Madrid is great and broad with lots of stuff to do/see esp. the museums and night-life. Bilbao is an industrial city, and it depends much on the Guggenheim. Fun in Basque-Country is to drive around it, exploring the small villages and mountains; Santander is wonderful; Oviedo is my favourite city in northern Spain and it is close to the Picos de Europa National Park, which is outstanding. Oviedo is busy, very beautiful and still somewhat regional and authentic - similar to Oporto in northern Portugal. Salamanca is definitely worth a visit but it's hard to get there, unless you're driving into central Portugal which is nice but slow-paced. Oporto is a very beautiful city and you can go on board a ship up-river into a serious mountainous "wine region" with outstanding food tradition and boarding tradition. South, you have Coimbra (1 day is enough to visit) and then you have Lisbon. Lisbon and whereabouts towns like Sintra can take you a 3-day visit. Since I was born there, but still from a tourist pov, I think the best thing about Lisbon is to let the city pace take you in and enjoy its surprises. It's a fairly de-organized city but it's very welcoming and the natives are cool :P
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