Capela das Almas
428 Rua de Santa Catarina, União das freguesias de Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, Porto, 4000-444, Portugal
The Chapel of Souls is a small church on Porto's busiest shopping street that's entirely covered in blue and white azulejo tiles — all four exterior walls, from ground to roofline, wrapped in approximately 15,947 tiles depicting the lives and deaths of various saints with the graphic enthusiasm that 18th-century Portuguese Catholics brought to martyrdom.
Clérigos Church
Rua de São Filipe de Nery, Porto
The Clérigos Church is the body attached to the famous tower, and it deserves more than a passing glance on the way to the stairs.
Igreja de Santo Ildefonso
11 Praça da Batalha, União das freguesias de Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, Porto, 4000-468, Portugal
Santo Ildefonso is the church that stops traffic on Rua de 31 de Janeiro — its entire facade is covered in approximately 11,000 azulejo tiles depicting scenes from the life of Saint Ildefonsus and allegories of the Eucharist, installed in 1932 by Jorge Colaço, the same artist who painted São Bento Station.
Igreja de São Francisco
Rua do Inf D Henrique, União das freguesias de Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, Porto, 4050-296, Portugal
The Church of São Francisco is Gothic on the outside and absolute madness on the inside.
Igreja do Carmo & Igreja dos Carmelitas
Rua do Carmo, Porto
Two churches pressed so close together they share a wall — and the reason is one of the most absurd pieces of Portuguese bureaucracy in history.
Jardim da Cordoaria
2 Campo Bos Martires da Patria, União das freguesias de Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, Porto, 4050-368, Portugal
Cordoaria is Porto's most atmospheric small park — a shaded rectangle of towering plane trees, park benches, and permanent art installations that serves as the unofficial town square for the university neighbourhood.
Livraria Lello
Rua das Carmelitas 144, Porto
Livraria Lello is regularly called the most beautiful bookshop in the world, and for once the superlative is earned.
Palácio da Bolsa
Rua de Ferreira Borges, União das freguesias de Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, Porto, 4050-252, Portugal
The Palácio da Bolsa — Porto's Stock Exchange Palace — was built to impress foreign traders, and 150 years later it's still working.
São Bento Railway Station
Praça de Almeida Garrett, Porto
São Bento is a working railway station that doubles as one of the finest azulejo galleries in Portugal.
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