Touristic Information


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Porto is Portugal's second largest city, having been classified by UNESCO as World Heritage for its old town centre at river Douro side. It is the administrative centre of Northern of Portugal, worldwide renown for its Port Wine Cellars.

Porto has an international airport, with connections to all major European airports. All other public transports (train, bus, etc) can also be used to reach Porto. It has an extensive network of buses and a train, which makes it very easy to stroll around the town, and train and bus connections to many tourist attractions in the region. Lisbon is three hours away by train, and all other major Portuguese cities can be easily reached either by car or by train.
The architecture and the city

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The city as a work of art

The synthesis made by the centuries between place and man, generated this city, which was built by hundreds of generations which have cut the stones and woven the ties of solidarity of its population. This is what the new cities can aim at as regards their distant futures, and the historical city must preserve to defend its identity and character.

The city, while a circuit of interests, an economical and social polo, an entity resisting even the territory’s suppression, becomes the summit of the human factory.

Even, as a Warsaw, where ruins caused by generalized bombing have been dynamited to completely destroy them, the space skeleton having been thus lost, it is possible for the city to be born again, be the will and the memory of the people stronger than extreme adversity and external extermination. This is the strength of an historical city.

In Oporto, one can feel that strength at every corner and on each face.
The most remarkable periods

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Entertainment

Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Comtemporary Art Museum
Casa do Infante, Infant House
Casa-Museu Fernando de Castro, Fernando de Castro House-Museum
Casa-Museu Guerra Junqueiro, Guerra-Junqueiro House-Museum
Casa-Museu Marta Ortigão Sampaio, Marta Ortigão Sampaio House-Museum
Museu de Transportes e Comunicações, Transport and comunications Museum
Museu do Carro Eléctrico, Electric Car Museum
Teatro Helena Sá e Costa, Helena Sá e Costa Theather
Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, Soares dos Reis Nacional Museum
Museu do Vinho do Porto, Porto Wine Museum
Museu da Indústria, Industry Museum
Museu de História Natural, Natural History Museum
Museu do Papel Moeda, Papel Moeda Museum
Museu de Arte Sacra, Arte Sacra Museum
Museu da Misericórdia, Misericórdia Museum
Centro Português de Fotografia, Portuguese Fotography Center
Museu Romântico da Quinta da Macieirinha, Quinta da Macieirinha Romantic Museum
Museu Militar do Porto, Militar Museum of Porto
Castelo do Queijo, Queijo Castel
Casa da Música, House of Music
Teatro Rivoli, Rivoli Theather
Teatro S. João , S. João theater
Teatro Sá da Bandeira, Sá da Bandeira Theather
Coliseu do Porto, Porto Coliseum
Teatro do Campo Alegre, Campo Alegre Theather
Teatro Helena Sá e Costa, Helena Sá e Costa Theather