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City trips Porto   -   Oporto and Northern Portugal  -  District Oporto

Municipalities district Porto : Amarante, Baião, Felgueiras, Gondomar, Lousada, Maia, Marco de Canaveses, Matosinhos, Paços de Ferreira, Paredes, Penafiel, Porto, Póvoa de Varzim, Santo Tirso, Trofa, Valongo, Vila do Conde and Vila Nova de Gaia

Capital City Northern Portugal : Porto


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Car Hire Porto  

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  Holiday Autos  -   
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Holiday Homes / Apartments in Porto

     -   Holiday homes in Porto
All properties are checked on a regular basis. All homes can be booked on-line. Properties are shown by destination.

  Portugalvacances.com   -   Villas and holidays in Portugal at affordable prices
  Holiday Rentals

Hotels Oporto / Pousadas

  Hotels in Porto   -   Hotel guide Porto

  Ipanema Park *****, Rua De Serralves, 124, 4150-702 Porto
Strategically located between Boavista and Foz, hotel Ipanema Park is just a few minutes away from both the city centre and the motorway which provides access to the airport and the city of Lisbon.

  Pousadas   -   lodgings where you can appreciate the traditional regional gastronomy
Dozens of state-run Pousadas, strategically situated in or near major tourist destinations throughout the country, almost invariably offering the most comfortable accommodations and, often, the finest food in the area

Hostels / B&B

  Pão de Açúcar Bed & Breakfast  ***, Rua do Almada 262, 4050-032 Porto
Pão de Açucar offers 51 spacious and comfortable guest rooms with a private bathroom, air-conditioning, mini bar and hairdryer, and also 6 suites, and 6 rooms with private terrace and a magnificent view over the Town Hall.

 
Hostelbookers.com is one of the worlds largest online booking services for hostels. All hostels you see here are offering realtime prices and availability.

  Pousadas Juventude   -   click on  'Contactos e links'
  Youth hostels in Portugal

Travel Agents / Tour Operators

 
Create your perfect trip to Porto   -   Flight, Hotel and Car



  Paxtravel   -   a leading name in pilgrimage organisation for > 25 years
Itineraries on a mixture of religious and cultural themes, for groups large and small and individuals.
  Secret Destinations Holidays
  Slack's Travel  - 
Coach holidays to Portugal from Derbyshire (see boarding locations), Nottingham (boarding points Ripley & Derby) and South Yorkshire (boarding point Chesterfield.

Travel Guides Porto / Destination Guide / Related books

Travel Guides Porto  [ amazon.co.uk ]

Portugal - Rough Guide 
By Mark Ellingham, Graham Kenyon, John Fisher, Jules Brown, Matthew Hancock.
Paperback 640 pages (March 31, 2005);  Publisher: Rough Guides;  Language: English;  ISBN: 184353438X.

Transportation / How do I travel to Porto

  Oporto Airport   -   Francisco Sá Carneiro [ OPO ] 12.2 km from Porto   -   ANA

 
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  Airline Tickets Porto / Discount Flights Oporto

  

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  Portugese Railways

  Public Transport Oporto

  Online Maps Portugal [ Uni Texas  -  Perry-Castañeda Library  -  Map Collection Europe   ]


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  Travel Insurance   -   online travel and holiday insurance for UK and Irish residents

  Porto [ Oporto / Northern Portugal ]   -   Oporto Tourism
Oporto, the capital of the country's northern regions, with its international t airport, offers the delights of a riverside city as it is magnificently situated on the mouth of the Douro river, from where boats leave to sail up the beautiful river.
Seaside Viana do Castelo, ecclesiastic Braga, and medieval Guimarães are but a few other examples of a happy alliance between popular heritage and cosmopolitan elegance.

  Costa Verde  -  Green Coast  -  Northern Portugal
The country's longest motorway (A1, from Lisbon to Oporto) goes up to Braga (A3), in the heart of Costa Verde. If you follow the coastline on the road from Vila do Conde to Valença, you will not miss the beautiful beaches, seaside resorts and enchanting villages such as Caminha and Vila Nova de Cerveira. Inland and worthwhile visiting is the Peneda-Gerês National Park. Throughout the region the rivers, waterfalls, vineyards and fertile plots combine with the ancestral monuments in urban centres.

  Amarante
  Baião
  Felgueiras
  Gondomar
  Lousada
  Maia
  Marco de Canaveses
  Matosinhos
  Paços de Ferreira
  Paredes
  Penafiel
  Porto
  Póvoa de Varzim
  Santo Tirso
  Trofa
  Valongo
  Vila do Conde
  Vila Nova de Gaia

  Faro
The long strip of dunes that separates the sea from the Ria Formosa is a paradise for anyone who enjoys sun, sand and sea. With the advantage that visitors can choose from a necklace of separate islands, and have mile after mile of sandy beaches all to themselves.
* Ilha de Faro: linked to the mainland by a road, this island has a small nucleus of beach houses, restaurants and other tourist facilities.
* Ilha de Barreta: this island is truly calm and solitary. Thanks to the fact that there are no regular ferry connections. It is an excellent destination for anyone who has hired a boat or is lucky enough to have their own and who wants to enjoy the pleasures of sea and sand undisturbed by other holidaymakers.
* Ilha do Farol: apart from a few fishermen's cabins, there is nothing on these islands but sand...
* Culatra: a former fishing village, until a few decades ago the houses of Culatra had wooden walls and thatched roofs. Fishing still goes on, and shell fish are harvested from the Ria. There is an extensive beach which is quiet, with a family atmosphere. Regular steam boat services run to the Farol and Culatra beaches from Faro [ summer ] and Olhão [ all year ].

  Aamlia Rodrigues [ 1920 - 1999 ]
  Douro Region
Located in Northeast Portugal, within the Douro River basin, surrounded by craggy mountains that give it very particular soil and climacteric characteristics, this region spreads over a total area of approximately 250 000 hectares and is divided into three sub-regions that differ greatly from each other not only as regards the weather but also for socio-economical reasons.
  Pelgrimage
In Portugal, Fátima is a very important catholic center, dedicated to the Mother of Jesus, Mary [ Maria ].
  Port Wine
Port Wine is a sweet fortified wine, exclusively produced in the Douro designated region, named after the city of Porto, where it is aged and bottled. Its unmistakable bouquet, body and flavour are due to the high quality of the grapes, as well as to the region's soil and climatic conditions.
  World Heritage City Oporto
  News   -   Expresso

Cuisine

When talking about Porto we must mention some traditional dishes, such as the Porto Style Tripe, which gave the city's inhabitants their nickname -- tripeiros – i.e. those who eat tripe.
This dish, famous not so much for its preparation (veal's tripe with sausages and butter beans) as for the altruistic attitude of the Porto people who, in a moment of need, donated all the available meat to the ships leaving to conquer new cities in Northern Africa and kept only the animals' tripe for their subsistence, is today's major symbol of the city's gastronomy.

Portugal is a country for wine lovers. The Romans associated Portugal with Bacchus, their God of Winery and Feast. Many famous Portuguese wines are known as some of the world's best: Vinho Verde, Vinho do Douro, Vinho do Alentejo, Vinho do Dão, and the sweet: Port Wine, Madeira wine and the Moscatels of Setúbal and Favaios.

  Port and Douro Wines Institute
The Port and Douro Wines Institute is an official body belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture.
  Virtual Portugal   -   Eating & Drinking in Portugal
Fish and Crustaceans; Meat, fowl and game; Cheeses; Desserts; Wines of Portugal [ a wealthy in good wines and, apart from the unique Port and Madeira - see map ]; Eating & Drinking places directories

Film / Movie

  Fado, Historia d'uma Cantadeira [1947]   -   Director Perdigao Queiroga
Melodrama about a singer [ her love for Julio  -  a simple giutar player is hindering her singing career ]. Lots of music and singing. Leading role: Amalia Rodrigues. See MDB

History Porto

In the Roman period the city developed its importance as a commercial port, primarily in the trade between Olissipona (Lisbon) and Bracara Augusta (nowadays Braga). See for more Wikipedia 

Music, Art & Culture

  Wikipedia

  Agenda Cultural Nacional
  Fado  [ destiny in Portuguese ]
A form of melancholic music. It is linked to the Portuguese word 'saudade', conveying a complex feeling of sadness, pain, miss and love, along with other feelings. Its origins are probably a mixture of African slave rhythms with traditional music of Portuguese sailors. And it also has a  Arabic influence.

Nowadays fado is a world wide known symbol of Portugal, being represented for many years in foreign countries by Amália, and more recently by Dulce Pontes, among others. Throughout the world, to the name of Portugal, there were two things immediately related: the bullfighting and the Fado. Although taking many forms as it is sung in Porto, in Coimbra or in Lisbon, the Fado is, by self-earned right, the expression of the Portuguese soul.
  Instituto Camoes   -   Centros Culturais Portugueses
  Music Museum
The Music Museum is an institution under the Portuguese Institute of Museums (Instituto Português de Museus ), in which one of the richest instrument collections in Europe is housed, along with documents, an iconography collection and sound archive.
  Portugese Cinema

  MP3's  -  Portuguese Music

Web Portals / Directories

  Portugal4you.com   -   Online Travel Guide for Portugal
  Portugal
  Portugalinfo
  Portugal Travel Guide

  Yellow Pages   -   English / Portuguese
  Telephone Guide   -   white pages   -   English / Portuguese language


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