In Portugal, more and more people are aware of the beneficial effects on health and well-being of practicing yoga and Pilates. That’s why Holidu, the vacation home booking portal, decided to find out which cities are practicing yoga and pilates. Lisbon is one of them, but we’ll get to that in a moment.
First of all, it’s important to understand the methodology of the study. For this purpose, and according to information shared with the editorial staff of Lisboa Secreta, Google Maps data was taken into account. What does this mean? Initially, a list of all Portuguese cities was compiled .
After that, searches were made for each city with the keywords yoga and pilates. In addition, the number of search results related to studios, yoga retreats and fitness centers were recorded. In the end, the results were normalized from 0 to 10.
Top 10 cities for practicing yoga
According to the Holidu study,this is the national top 10:
- Porto (10 points)
- Lisbon (9.42 points)
- Setúbal (8.72 points)
- Vila Nova de Gaia (8.52 points)
- Braga (7.83 points)
- Leiria (6.74 points)
- Coimbra (6.45 points)
- Portimão (6 points)
- Funchal (5.46 points)
- Lagos (5.26 points)