Aveiro is the Portuguese Venice — a lagoon city laced with canals, where painted moliceiro boats glide past Art Nouveau facades, recently voted the most romantic city in Europe.
The two Aveiro wedding venues on our list sit by a city of canals, moliceiro boats and Art Nouveau facades — recently voted Europe’s most romantic — with the striped beach huts of Costa Nova nearby.
Aveiro holds 2 of Mary Me’s curated wedding venues by the lagoon city known as the Portuguese Venice — a country estate and a design hotel, canals and Art Nouveau a short drive away. About 45 minutes from Porto airport, up to around 300 guests, best from late spring to early autumn.
Aveiro’s distinctiveness is water and colour. Built on the Ria de Aveiro lagoon, it’s threaded with canals crossed by colourful moliceiro boats, lined with pastel Art Nouveau houses, with the striped beach huts of Costa Nova nearby. Readers of one British newspaper recently voted it the most romantic city in Europe — a backdrop few wedding destinations can match.
It sits about forty-five minutes from Porto airport, a bright, characterful Center option for couples who want canals, colour and the coast without going far from the city.
The two here are Quinta da Costeira, a country estate for the larger celebration, and the Meliá São João da Madeira, a design hotel base. Either pairs the day with Aveiro’s canals and the colourful Costa Nova coast.
It sits on a lagoon and is criss-crossed by canals, plied by colourful moliceiro boats and lined with Art Nouveau houses — a uniquely photogenic setting that recently topped a poll of Europe’s most romantic cities.
About forty-five minutes from Porto airport, on the Center coast.
The canals and old town, and the striped beach huts and dunes of Costa Nova a short drive away.
Two — a country estate and a design hotel, up to around 300 guests, by the canal city of Aveiro. We match you to the setting; the canals and Costa Nova are the backdrop.
