10 Things to do in Porto, Portugal Travel Guide
Join us as we visit Porto, Portugal in this travel guide covering 10 things to do including attractions, food and experiences. Porto ended up being one of our favorite cities during our Europe trip with my parents and is completely different from Lisbon. From riverside barrios to Neoclassical buildings and tram rides to stunning views over the Douro you'll find Porto is a city with no shortage of charm.
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Intro - 00:01
1) Visit the Blue Tiled Church “Chapel of Souls” (Igreja do Carmo -Capela das Almas) - 00:31
2) Shop for books inside Lello Bookstore (Livraria Lello) - 01:00
3) Set foot inside São Bento Train Station (Estação Ferroviária de São Bento) - 03:02 + Porto Cathedral (Sé do Porto) - 03:35
4) Explore the Riverside Quarter of Ribeira - 04:10
5) Sample local dishes from Porto at Terreirinho restaurant - 04:24
6) Visit the Church of Saint Francis (Igreja de São Francisco) - 05:54
7) Visit the Bolhão Market (Mercado do Bolhão) - 07:09
8) Walk across Dom Luís I Bridge for the best views of Porto (Ponte D. Luís I) - 08:33
9) Drink Port wine at Croft (vinho do Porto) - 10:25
10) Take a boat tour, cable car, funicular or walk down the Douro River - 10:04 & 12:16
*Bonus* Eat a Francesinha Portuguese sandwich - 12:40
Outro - 16:30
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Our visit Porto travel guide documentary covers some of the top attractions including a food guide to Portuguese cuisine, top sightseeing tourist attractions including visiting churches, monasteries, parks, wineries, bridges, quirky neighborhoods and museums. We also cover off-the-beaten-path outdoor activities you won't find in a typical Porto tourism brochure, Porto itinerary or Porto city tour also known as Oporto, Portuguesa.
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Lisbon is beautiful, but Porto is magical. We arrived in Porto with our taxi driver’s words still ringing in our ears, and we’re happy to say, the city did not disappoint!
Our time in Porto was spent sipping on Port wine, soaking in the views across the Douro River, wandering through the hilly streets, and marvelling at buildings covered in blue tiles.
In this travel guide, we’re going to share a little bit of Porto’s magic with you, and also show you some of the things you too can see, eat, and drink when you visit Porto!
Known as the Chapel of Souls, this church is covered in tiles that represent moments in the life of Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Catherine.
This bookstore is a feast for the eyes. The bookstore was even frequented by JK Rowling when she taught English in Porto, and it’s reported to have been an inspiration in her Harry Potter series.
We continued our walk downhill until we reached the São Bento Train Station.
Porto Cathedral is one of the oldest landmarks in the city with cloisters where the walls are covered in blue tiles.
We reached the neighbourhood of Ribeira, which sits right on the shores of the Douro River. This neighbourhood is lined with many sidewalk cafes, bars, and restaurants, so it’s a nice place to rest your legs and do a bit of people watching. Feeling hungry we wandered down some of the back streets until we found a small restaurant serving up local specialities.
We made time for one more attraction: the Church of Saint Francis.
The Bridge we had all been waiting for was Dom Luis the first Bridge, which spans the Douro River. The lower deck carries regular traffic with narrow walkways for those on foot, and the upper deck is reserved for pedestrians and the metro lines.
For the best views of Porto, you need to walk the upper deck!
There was only one thing on our minds: visit one of the many wineries that line this side of the river! We ended up walking into Croft for a wine tasting without need for an appointment, and this turned out to be one of our favourite activities in Porto!
Filled to the brim with port wine, cheese and chocolate, we enjoyed a light stroll along the Douro River, watching the boats bob in the water.
That’s a wrap for our visit to Porto! We hope you guys enjoyed following along and that you got a few ideas for your own trip. If you have any other suggestions of fun things to do in and around Porto, feel free to share those with travellers in the comments below.
This is part of our Travel in Portugal video series showcasing Portuguese food, Portuguese culture and Portuguese cuisine.
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Porto – Portugal – City tour
Portugal is in the west of the Iberian Peninsula. Porto is in the north of Portugal, on the estuary of the river Douro. Earlier Porto was the industrial city of Portugal. In Lisbon Portugal was ruled, in Coimbra was studied and in Porto was worked.
In recent years, Porto has turned into a wonderful tourist destination. With its picturesque old town, the promenade along the banks of the Douro under the impressive Ponte Luís I, the long promenade along the Douro estuary and the endless beach promenade along the Atlantic coast, Porto is now worth to be visited more than only one day.
The culinary diversity, the history of port wine, many historic buildings and the famous Azulejos framed by the hospitality of the Portuguese, complete the experience.
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A travel guide for visiting Porto Portugal including the 8 best things to do in Porto. Highlights include: Porto's Wine Lodges including Sandemann and Offley, Telerifico de Gaia, Porto's famous sandwich, Sao Bento Train Station, Clergios Church Tower, Lello Bookstore, Riverfront Ribeira quarter, and the Stock Exchange Palace.
Porto is Portugal's 2nd largest city and is famous for Port Wine. Porto is built along the hills overlooking the Douro river estuary, and its historical center was awarded World Heritage status by UNESCO in 1996. Porto is not as well known as Portugal's capital Lisbon, but Porto is becoming a tourist destination of it's own. In fact, Porto was named by Forbes Magazine as The City To Visit This Year in 2017.
Don't forget the traditional sandwich called Francesinha, which literally translated means little French lady. Porto is just about the only place in the world where you can find it. Essentially the Francesinha is toast with layers of meat inside (beef, pork meat, ham...). The sandwich is then covered with cheese and a spicy sauce, with the option of including french fries on top. The Francesinha has been considered one of the 10 best sandwiches in the World.
One of the most famous lodges in Porto is the Sandeman lodge. This lodge has been here since the middle of the 18th century. It was originally founded by a Scottish man who wanted to import the wines from Portugal to Britain. The tours are 6 Euro, you can turn up and hope they have a tour in your language. We're here in the morning at 11, they said we'd just missed an English tour at 10.30 and the next one's at 2.45. Apparently Sandeman has two sister wine sellers and they'll let you know when those have English tours. So the next English tour for us is at Offley at 12 o'clock and there is another one, the Ferreira just a little further down the street. So if you don't find a tour at the one you're going to, check out one of the other lodges.
For a unique view of the wine lodges and the river front of Porto take the Teleferico de Gaia. The views are truly terrific on the Teleferico. Ba - dum - tish! It takes you from wine lodge country up to the top of the bridge near the Metro Station. Tickets one way cost 5 Euro or 8 Euro for a round trip.
Porto's main street through the historic center is a big wide avenue that has the City Hall on top flanked by two roads on either side, reminiscent of Wenceslas Square in Prague. Even if you're not taking a train into or out of Porto it's worth a trip to the Sao Bento Train Station. It's a very beautiful train station, actually I think one of the most beautiful on the inside that I've been to, the lobby area at least, because it was decorated with these blue Portuguese tiles from 1910 and they're showing the history of transportation from horses to oxen to boats and even battles over there. You'll find a number of historic churches dotted around the town with decorative Portuguese blue tiles inside and in this case, outside the church. That blue tile decoration outside occurs on more than just one church.
For some of the best views of Porto climb up to the top of the Clerigos church tower. The tower itself isn't actually that tall but it is on the highest point of Porto making it a place for unobstructed views. You know, I say it's not that tall because I haven't climbed it yet. The total number of stairs, 197 to be exact. And actually the stair climb isn't too bad. It's slightly narrow but it takes about 10 minutes to get to the top, maybe even five if you do it quickly.
After the tower stop by at the Livraria Lello, a bookstore that was founded in 1881 and it's where people thought J.K. Rowling was inspired to write Harry Potter. It has to be the most elaborately decorated and designed bookstore I've ever seen and the staircase looks like something out of an M.C. Escher drawing. Very curvy.
The street right along the river, the Ribeira, or as I like to think of it, the Riviera. I don't think that's really what it's called but I'm going to call it that for this video. It's a great place to dine, there's a lot of restaurants here.
To see an interesting kind of private Palace in Porto, visit the Palacio da Bolsa, or the Stock Exchange Palace. This palace was completed in 1910 to be the Porto and North of Portugal Stock Exchange, built and owned by the Oporto Commercial Association.
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Lisboa es linda, pero Porto es mágica. Llegamos a Porto con las palabras de nuestro taxista resonando en nuestros oídos, y la ciudad no nos decepcionó.
Pasamos nuestra visita en Porto probando sus famosos vinos, disfrutando de las vistas del Río Duero, paseando por calles empinadas, y maravillándonos a los edificios cubiertos en azulejos.
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10 Cosas Que ver y hacer en Porto (Oporto), Portugal Guía Turística
1) La Capilla de la Almas
2) Librería Lello
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Porto is the second largest city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the Iberian Peninsula. Porto is a coastal city in northwest Portugal known for its stately bridges and Port wine production. In the medieval Ribeira (riverside) district, narrow cobbled streets wind past merchants’ houses and cafes.
Located along the Douro river estuary in Northern Portugal, Porto is one of the oldest European centres, and its historical core was proclaimed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996. The western part of its urban area extends to the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. Its settlement dates back many centuries, when it was an outpost of the Roman Empire. Its combined Celtic-Latin name, Portus Cale, has been referred to as the origin of the name Portugal, based on transliteration and oral evolution from Latin. In Portuguese, the name of the city is spelled with a definite article (o Porto; English: the port). Consequently, its English name evolved from a misinterpretation of the oral pronunciation and referred to as Oporto in modern literature and by many speakers.
One of Portugal's internationally famous exports, port wine, is named for Porto, since the metropolitan area, and in particular the caves of Vila Nova de Gaia, were responsible for the packaging, transport and export of the fortified wine. In 2014, Porto was elected The Best European Destination by the Best European Destinations Agency.
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Porto (also Oporto; Portugal)
Porto - Portugal and its charms (Port wine)
Porto (also Oporto; Portugal) is a city in northern Portugal and is the second largest city in Portugal, with a 2005 estimated population of 238,465 in the 15 parishes of Porto municipality, 1.6 million in the 14 Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto municipalities, which is an administrative and political entity, and 2.99 million people in the broader agglomeration of Porto Metropolitan Region.
Due to its economic output and market size, Greater Porto area is one of the major financial and economic centers of the northwestern quarter of the Iberian Peninsula. Porto's municipality is the core of a large northern Atlantic conurbation, and Porto district is one of the most industrialized districts of Portugal.
One of Portugal's most internationally famous products, Port wine, was named after the city because it was originally shipped from the area or, more precisely, from Vila Nova de Gaia, a city just across the river which belongs to the same conurbation. The country was also named after the Latin name of this city, Portus Cale (English: Port of Gaia).
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