Portugal - Porto City

The city of Oporto is a city bourgeois, liberal, strong and united in their convictions. The December 5, 1996 UNESCO, called the Historic Centre of Oporto, which includes the parishes of the Cathedral of Miragaia, S. Nicholas and Victoria, as a World Heritage city of Oporto integrating the gallery of the most remarkable monuments of mankind.

The city occupies one of the banks of the River Douro, near the mouth. The city of Oporto gave the name Portugal (the first nucleus is called Portus and Cale, in the 8th century BC).

Historical Center
The historic center of Porto appears as an area of ​​great beauty that strikes the balance between historic buildings and recovery of materials and modern techniques of various properties of urban settlement. Corresponds to the medieval city walls Fernandinas closed in the fourteenth century and is the result of a historical process with about three thousand years
covering the same number of buildings and about 20 thousand.
The Historical Center is located between the Cathedral and the hills of Victoria, and the valleys of the River Village and Virtue and is characterized by a large set of streets and alleys, narrow and winding, to which are added and Renaissance buildings Baroque and more recently the construction of squares.

Cathedral
The Cathedral and the main religious building of the diocese, said sealer as a center of climates in successive works of aesthetic transformation. These artistic solutions to radiate away its direct area of ​​influence. In the long history of the Cathedral of Porto highlights three phases: the foundation of medieval times which defined the contours architectural, modern times, the conversion of the building conditioned by the Catholic reform, it does take a consistent picture where the arts of interior - carving, painting, stucco, and others - are his keynote address, the last was in the twentieth century the controversial intervention of the National Monuments, which sought to purge it of its Baroque ambience leading to the formal purism of the period it gizara form.

Tower of the clergy
The whole of the Clergy Brotherhood, composed of the Church, House of Clergy (secretariat and infirmary) and Tower, is the most representative of the work of painter-architect Nasoni in Porto, where he develops business from 1725 until his!
death in 1773. The unusual elliptical nave of the church in the universe of other religious spaces of the city, alongside the exquisite treatment of the elevations and cover system, justifying his mastery of the art of designing spaces. I knew even take advantage of the location of the building, putting back the bell tower on the highest part of the site, stating it more emblem of the city.
Symbol of the baroque city, an emblem of the current port, all the clergy raises the baroque Porto to its' best.

House of Music
Building with a bold, modern architecture, was designed by Dutch architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas as a symbol of "Porto European Capital of Culture 2001".
As the main venue of Porto, this institution has as main objective to disclose all the music: from classical to jazz, to electronics, to fate. To this end, focuses on programming rich and continuing, bringing the stage names of Porto's most prestigious musical universe.

Mouth
Foz is the name that is known throughout the Western Port. The promenade is one of the most sought after in Oporto at outdoor cafes, bars and gardens to the sea.
Very near the mouth of the Douro, in the parish of Nevogilde, is the Fort of St. Francis Xavier, popularly known as Castle Cheese, because it is based on a rounded stone like a cheese. Currently, there is in the custody of the Association of commands, used as a stage for cultural events and entertainment.

Crystal Palace Gardens
The Crystal Palace Gardens, Quinta da Quinta Macieirinha and Tait are the three units that make up this magnificent park from which to enjoy breathtaking panoramic views of the Douro river and the sea. The romantic gardens of the Crystal Palace, designed in the nineteenth century by the architect Emile David, have always been a privileged stage for various cultural, social,
public shows and amusements of various kinds and even ostentatious exhibitions. In 1956 the multi-use pavilion, Rosa Mota Pavilion, the second project of the architect Carlos Loureiro, replaced the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace Gardens open in the Garden that has Emile David, and allegorical statues and fountains to the seasons, beautiful specimens of rhododendrons, camellias, pines, beeches and ginkgos, among many others.

For a good time in the beautiful harbor city there are several options for staying, including advise: easyHotel Porto Freixo Palace , Hotel InterContinental Cardosas the Palace , Hotel Yeatman and the Hotel Teatro . Can not fail to also make a boat trip on the Douro River, we guarantee that you will not regret.

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