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.
Miragaia Neighbourhood
Porto, Portugal
Miragaia is the Porto neighbourhood that guidebooks haven't quite discovered yet — a riverside district west of the Ribeira where narrow streets climb steeply from the Douro into a tangle of stone houses, tiny squares, and churches that feels like a village accidentally attached to a city.
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.
Porto Cathedral (Sé do Porto)
Terreiro da Sé, Porto
Porto's cathedral looks like a fortress because it basically is one.
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.
Ribeira District
Cais da Ribeira, União das freguesias de Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, Porto, 4050-199, Portugal
The Ribeira is Porto's soul — a UNESCO World Heritage waterfront of medieval buildings stacked up the hillside in a tumble of terracotta roofs, peeling facades, and laundry hung from wrought-iron balconies.
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.
Torre dos Clérigos
Rua de São Filipe de Nery, Porto
The Clérigos Tower is Porto's exclamation mark — a 76-metre Baroque bell tower that dominates the skyline and has been the city's most recognisable landmark since it was completed in 1763.
Vila Nova de Gaia Port Wine Lodges
Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto
Across the river from Porto, the south bank is lined with the lodges where port wine has been aged and stored since the 17th century.
World of Discoveries (Museu Interativo)
106 Rua de Miragaia, União das freguesias de Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, Porto, 4050-387, Portugal
Porto was the city that launched the Age of Discovery — Henry the Navigator was born here, the caravels that reached India and Brazil were funded by Porto merchants, and the city's residents donated their best meat to provision the fleets (keeping only tripe for themselves, which is why they're still called tripeiros).
Explore history in Porto
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