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.
Casa da Música
Avenida da Boavista 604-610, Porto
Casa da Música looks like a meteorite landed in a Porto roundabout — a faceted white concrete polyhedron designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas that's been dividing opinion since it opened in 2005.
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.
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 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.
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.
Majestic Café
112 Rua de Santa Catarina, União das freguesias de Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, Porto, 4000-442, Portugal
The Café Majestic is Porto's most famous coffee shop and one of the most beautiful cafés in Europe — a Belle Époque interior of carved wood panels, cherub-studded mirrors, marble tables, and leather banquettes that hasn't fundamentally changed since it opened in 1921.
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.
Ponte da Arrábida
Ponte da Arrábida, União das freguesias de Lordelo do Ouro e Massarelos, Porto, 4150-553, Portugal
The Arrábida Bridge is a single concrete arch spanning 270 metres across the Douro, and when it was completed in 1963 it was the longest concrete arch bridge in the world.
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.
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