I recently visited for the first time and saw that there's such a vibrant art community culture. Then I bought a Lonely Planet Portugal edition and I'm humbled how many festivals, arts, music and cinema events Portugal has, and each city has their own one. Portugal is a very underrated country I think.
I understand it's one of the oldest stable borders in Europe (perhaps in the world). But what's funny is that by looking at the geography I see no physical justification for its outline. It's not like there's a long range of mountains that would separate it from Spain like the Pyrenees separate Spain from France. No rivers either. What I also find intriguing is how it doesn't continue all the way up North to include Galicia. What stopped people from moving up there if there are no physical boundaries?
It just seems randomly drawn.