re: Is Portugal underrated?

Not saying Lisbon isn't awesome in aggregate. We stayed a street down from the Santa Justa Lift so right in the center of tourist central. It was a ton of fun. What I'm saying is once you leave those areas its run down and a surprising amount of the city was built in the 50s in this modernist style. Reminded me of being back in Seoul where you'd go to their main palace and the tour guide says "this is a replica, the Japanese burned the real thing down twice so we had to build this".