Large, out of town shopping centres are catching on in Portugal and are very popular with most people. However unlike the enormous malls which have been constructed in the United Kingdom, Portuguese shopping malls are more intimate. Most large cities have a variety of shopping centres and most large towns have either one or are getting one built.

Unfortunately the rest of the western worlds' love affair with shopping is being adopted by the Portuguese and even on bank holidays and Sundays you will find a steady stream of window shopping walking the isles of these glassed in streets of shops.