Portugal Spain Both are part of the Iberian Peninsula and a perfect place for Iberian vacations. A tour of the Iberian Peninsula will give you the best of spain or portugal. Cities in Portugal to beaches in Madrid Spain, the Iberian Peninsula gives you everything you are looking for in a vacation.

Located on the southwestern tip of the European continent, the Iberian Peninsula, includes the countries of Andorra, Portugal and Spain, and the British Crown colony of Gibraltar. At the nearest point, it is only 5 miles (8km) from the continent of Africa.

Separated from France by the Pyrenees mountains, its history frequently takes a different path from the rest of Europe. The Basque people settled in Iberia a millennia ago, retaining their culture to this day. The Roman Empire expanded into it in the 3rd century BCE, before being supplanted by the Germanic tribes in the 5th century. The peninsula again took on a non-European character when the Islamic Berber and Arabic Moors took over in the 8th century, ruling parts of it as recently as the 15th century. As Christian rule gradually took back the peninsula from the Moors, its people then looked outward seeding the Americas with their languages and laws.

Portugal. Spain. Both.