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OtherThe Porto BaixaThe Porto Baixa (Downtown) is laid out around the Avenida dos Aliados (Avenue of the Allies), the city´s focal point. At the top of this thoroughfare, there is the imposing Municipal Council building. At the other end, it opens onto the Praça da (...)
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OtherFaculdade de Arquitectura do PortoThe building of Oporto University's Faculty of Architecture was designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira between 1985 and 1986, when he “returned” to the university where he studied between 1949 and 1955. Of major international renown, the “Oporto School” (...)
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OtherEcopista / Antigo Caminho de Ferro da Bezerra - Porto de MósThe Ecopista (Eco-path) came about through the transformation of the old Bezerra Railway and can be travelled on foot or by bicycle.The railway, which was mostly in use in the 1930s and 1950s, was one of the main routes to transport coal from the (...)
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OtherCasa da MúsicaOne of Porto’s leading cultural venues, designed by the architect, Rem Koolhaas.At Rotunda da Boavista, half way between the historic centre and Foz area, near the sea, we see a large-scale, daringly original building that is sure to catch anyone’s (...)
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OtherTeatro Carlos AlbertoThe twelve-year span separating the destruction by fire of the Real Teatro de São João (1908) from the opening of the new Teatro de São João (1920) meant a golden opportunity which the other theatres in Porto quickly seized. All of them carried out (...)
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OtherTeatro Nacional São JoãoBy initiative of Chief Magistrate Francisco de Almada e Mendonça and a group of private investors, the Real Teatro de São João was built from a project by Italian scenographer and architect Vincenzo Mazzoneschi. Officially inaugurated on May 13, (...)
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OtherMosteiro de São Bento da VitóriaAt the very heart of Porto, in Vitória parish, the São Bento da Vitória Monastery – a classified National Monument since 1977 – is one of the municipality’s most important religious buildings.In the late 1500s, after a series of difficult (...)
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OtherRua das Flores and Church of MisericórdiaIn front of the São Bento Station, on the left-hand side, the Rua das Flores (Street of Flowers) was opened in the 16th century to free up movement around the city.It is a straight, busy thoroughfare where there are quality goldsmiths, keeping alive (...)
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OtherPort Wine Lodges, Vila Nova de GaiaPort wine is born in the valley of the River Douro, but it is beside the city that gave it its name that it ages and gains the flavour that makes it quite unmistakable.It is cultivated on terraces carved long ago by man on the banks of the River (...)
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OtherCasa das ArtesDesigned by Eduardo Souto Moura in 1980, the building of the Casa das Artes (House of Arts) in Oporto is one of the architect's most emblematic works. The project was selected within the framework of a public tender for construction of a cultural (...)
