Visit the Oporto city and the Oporto wine cellars.
Oporto is one historic city but also turned too modernity, with a exiting cultural life and night. For these reasons, the Oporto is an ideal place to combine a visit to the history of Portugal - the country with the oldest borders of Europe - but while visiting contemporary art and enjoy the concerts and discos to the riverside. A real paradise for a modern tourism.
This is also the city of Oporto wine.
The “Casa da Calçada” prepared a route that will take you to visit the most important and representative of Oporto wine cellars.
If you prefer a quiet visit, prepared a route to the mouth of the Douro river, the river that runs through the port since ancient times and that provides the city and let flow the Port wine for the rest of the world in boats typical of transporting barrels.
Religious Tourism in Oporto
Throughout the city of Oporto, could see the religious fervour of “Portuenses”, churches and chapels, the Cathedral and the ancients’ convents.
We describe some of the most significant religious monuments and important of the city:
Torre dos Clérigos - National Monument
Sé Catedral do Porto - National Monument
Igreja de Sao Francisco - National Monument
Culture in Porto
The city of Oporto was historically an enormous cultural wealth, and this is evidenced today by many cultural spaces and different schedules for different tastes, museums, cinemas to show:
Museu Soares dos Reis
Fundação de Serralves
Casa da Música
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Porto World Heritage of Humanity - UNESCO
Historic Center of Oporto
The city of Oporto, or only the Port, gave his name, not only the wine but also to the country, Portugal.
The Oporto is now a genuine, intense and attractive city to live and to visit with an architectural heritage of exceptional quality, the historic centre of Oporto was declared, a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1996.
Add to this the character of the city and “portuenses”, and soon will be impressed by the city and their lives. If you want to know better, we recommend a walk through its streets, admiring the typical places and monuments in granite and enjoying a tour by tram along the riverside margin or even a cruise by boat, crossing their six bridges, from which you could achieve a view admirable.
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