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.
Dom Luís I Bridge
Ponte Luís I, Porto
Dom Luís I Bridge is a double-decker iron arch that looks like it was designed by someone who really admired the Eiffel Tower — and that's because it was.
Foz do Douro
Foz do Douro, Porto
Foz is where the Douro River meets the Atlantic Ocean, and where Porto remembers that it's a coastal city, not just a river town.
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.
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.
Jardins do Palácio de Cristal
Rua de D Manuel II, Cidade da Maia, Maia, 4470-335, Portugal
The Crystal Palace Gardens are Porto's finest public park and home to the best viewpoint in a city full of good viewpoints.
Matosinhos
Matosinhos, Portugal
Matosinhos is where Porto goes to eat fish — and the fish here is some of the best in Europe, grilled over charcoal on the street outside restaurants that have been doing exactly this since long before it became fashionable.
Praça da Liberdade & Avenida dos Aliados
Praça da Liberdade, União das freguesias de Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, Porto, 4000-322, Portugal
Avenida dos Aliados is Porto's grandest street — a broad, sloping boulevard lined with early 20th-century buildings that was designed to give the city a Parisian-style civic centre.
Rua de Santa Catarina
Rua de Santa Catarina, Porto
Santa Catarina is Porto's main shopping street — a long pedestrianised avenue running from Praça da Batalha to Marquês de Pombal that serves as the city's commercial spine and people-watching capital.
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.
Virtudes Garden & Viewpoint
Passeio das Virtudes, União das freguesias de Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, Porto, 4050-629, Portugal
Passeio das Virtudes is Porto's best-kept sunset secret — a terraced garden clinging to the hillside west of the old town with views across the Douro that rival any paid miradouro in the city.
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