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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Porto, Portugal! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Porto. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
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The FC Porto Museum, officially known as FC Porto Museum by BMG for sponsorship reasons, is a museum located in Porto, dedicated to the history of the Portuguese association football club FC Porto. It was inaugurated on 28 September 2013, on occasion of the club's 120th anniversary, and opened its doors to the general public on 26 October.
The Church of the Carmelites or Church of the Discalced Carmelites is located in the parish of Vitória, in the city of Porto, Portugal. Construction began in 1616 and was completed in 1628. The interior decoration was only completed in 1650. It was classified as a National Monument on May 3, 2013, together with the Carmo Church, built later from 1752, with both churches united by the so-called Hidden House of Porto, just over one meter wide.
Wikipedia: Igreja dos Carmelitas (PT), Heritage Website Sipa
The monument to Almeida Garrett, a remarkable personality of the nineteenth century born in Porto, is located in front of the Porto City Hall, in the General Humberto Delgado square at the top of Avenida dos Aliados.
Wikipedia: Monumento Almeida Garrett (PT), Heritage Website Sipa
4. Igreja do Carmo
The Church of Carmo or the Church of the Venerable Third Order of Our Lady of Carmo, is located at the intersection between Carlos Alberto Square and Rua do Carmo, near the Church and Tower of Clericos, in the Portuguese Parish of Vitória Cidade do Porto .
Wikipedia: Igreja do Carmo (Porto) (PT), Heritage Website Sipa
5. Igreja da Lapa
The Church of Nossa Senhora da Lapa is a Roman Catholic church in Porto, Portugal, dedicated to Our Lady of Lapa. The church was built by the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Lapa, established in 1755, and is part of a building complex that includes the Lapa cemetery, the Brotherhood's primary school and the Lapa Brotherhood Hospital. In the chancel is buried the heart of King Pedro IV of Portugal, donated in his will to the brotherhood.
Wikipedia: Igreja da Lapa (Porto) (PT), Website, Heritage Website Sipa
6. Serralves Museum
The Serralves Museum, located in the city of Porto, is considered one of the best museums in all of Europe dedicated to contemporary art, with works by some of the greatest contemporary artists, such as Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Claes Oldenburg, Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Steve McQueen and Joan Miró.
Wikipedia: Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves (PT), Website
7. Church of São Francisco
The Church of Saint Francis is the most prominent Gothic monument in Porto, Portugal, being also noted for its outstanding Baroque inner decoration. It is located in the historic centre of the city, declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Wikipedia: Church of São Francisco (Porto) (EN), Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website
8. Feitoria Britânica
The British Factory House, also known as the British Association House, is an 18th-century Neo-Palladian building located in the northern Portuguese centre of Porto, associated with the influence of Britain in the port wine industry.
9. Planetário do Porto
The Porto Planetarium - Centro Ciência Viva is located in the city, county and district of Porto, Portugal. Located in Pole III of the University of Porto, it is a planetarium that is part of the Ciência Viva network of centres.
Wikipedia: Planetário do Porto - Centro Ciência Viva (PT), Website
10. Coliseu do Porto
The Coliseum of Porto is a Portuguese theatre and concert venue in the municipality of Porto, in northern Portugal, with a capacity for a standing audience of 4000. A leading venue for music and cultural events in Porto, together with Batalha Cinema, the Coliseu is an example of Portuguese Streamline Moderne and Art Deco styles in the city of Porto.
Wikipedia: Coliseu do Porto (EN), Heritage Website Sipa, Website
11. Parque das Águas
Being the old garden of a farm, once owned by the Wright family, it overlooks the Douro River, and has a magnificent view over Areinho beach in Gaia. The farm was acquired by the Porto City Council in 1932, to fulfill its current function of housing the services of the SMAS of Porto.
12. She Changes
She Changes, known locally as anémona, is a sculpture designed by artist Janet Echelman for the cities of Porto and Matosinhos, Northern Portugal. The installation consists of three steel poles, cables, a 20-ton steel ring and a net structure of varying densities and colors. The sculpture is Echelman's first permanent public art installation.
13. Mercado do Bom Sucesso
The Bom Sucesso Market is a building in Porto. It was inaugurated in 1952 as a fresh market, with a project by ARS Arquitectos. In 2011 it was classified as a monument of public interest. In the same year it was closed for renovations, having been reopened in 2013 as a shopping arcade, with catering shops, offices and a hotel.
14. Igreja de São Martinho de Cedofeita
The Church of Cedofeita is a medieval church in the civil parish of Cedofeita, municipality of Porto, in the northern Grande Porto Subregion of Portugal. The Church is a rare architectural example of a single-nave vaulted-ceiling temple, and the only one in the traditional Entre-Douro-e-Minho Province region of Portugal. It is classified as a National Monument.
Wikipedia: Church of São Martinho de Cedofeita (EN), Heritage Website Sipa
15. Jardins do Palácio de Cristal
The Crystal Palace Gardens are a pleasant green space located in the parish of Massarelos, in the city of Porto, Portugal, from which you can enjoy stunning panoramic views of the Douro River and the sea.
16. Teatro Sá da Bandeira
The Teatro Sá da Bandeira is the oldest performance venue in the city of Porto, with a capacity for 786 people and opened in 1846, it was responsible for the first presentation of films produced in Portuguese, and was converted in the first years of its opening on stage to some of the 19th century theater biggest stars, such as Sarah Bernhardt, Julián Gayarre and Antonio Scalvini.
Wikipedia: Teatro Sá da Bandeira (EN), Heritage Website Sipa
17. Hard Club
The Ferreira Borges Market is a historic building located in the city of Porto, Portugal, with access through Praça do Infante D. Henrique, Rua de Ferreira Borges, Rua de Sousa Viterbo and Rua Mouzinho da Silveira.
Wikipedia: Mercado Ferreira Borges (PT), Heritage Website Sipa
18. Rabelo boats
The rabelo boat is a traditional Portuguese wooden cargo boat that was used for centuries to transport people and goods along the Douro River. It is flat-bottomed, with a shallow draught, which was necessary to navigate the often shallow fast-flowing waters of the upper Douro prior to the construction of dams and locks from 1968 onwards.
19. Teatro Nacional São João
The São João Theatre, commonly referred to as the São João National Theatre is a Portuguese theatre and concert venue in civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the municipality of Porto, in northern Portugal.
Wikipedia: São João National Theatre (EN), Website, Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website
20. Casa-Museu Guerra Junqueiro
The Museum-Residence of Guerra Junqueiro is a former-residence and museum located in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the Portuguese north, municipality of Porto, classified as a Imóvel de Interesse Público.
21. Casa-Museu Fernando de Castro
Visiting only by booking, the Casa Museu Fernando de Castro is a historical house, located in the city of Porto, Portugal, that belonged to Fernando de Castro, a Portuguese poet, caricaturist, merchant and collector. It contains several paintings from the 17th to the 20th century, sculptures and ceramic pieces. The museum is now under administration of the Soares dos Reis National Museum.
22. Espaldão Militar do Porto
The Espaldão Militar do Porto, also referred to as Espaldão da Ervilha and Forte da Ervilha, is located in the place of Ervilha, in the parish of Aldoar, in the municipality and district of Porto, in Portugal.
23. Igreja dos Terceiros Franciscanos
The Church of the Venerable Third Order of St. Francis, or Church of the Third of St. Francis, is a church located between the Church of St. Francis and the House of the Dispatch of the Third Order of St. Francis, in the current parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, St. Nicholas and Vitória, in the city of Porto, Portugal.
Wikipedia: Igreja da Venerável Ordem Terceira de São Francisco (PT), Heritage Website Sipa
24. Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Esperança
The Church of Our Lady of Hope is located in Campo de São Francisco, in the parish of São José, city and municipality of Ponta Delgada, on the island of São Miguel, in the Autonomous Region of the Azores, Portugal.
25. Parque do Covelo
Quinta do Covelo is a green space, with about 8 hectares, located in the northern part of the city of Porto, located in the parish of Paranhos and bounded by Faria Guimarães and Bolama streets, Monte de São João street and alley and part of Álvaro de Castelões street.
26. Igreja da Serra do Pilar
The Monastery of Serra do Pilar is a former monastery located in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, on the opposite side of the Douro River from Porto. The monastery is situated on an outcrop overlooking the Dom Luís I Bridge and the historic centre of Porto. Together with these locations, the monastery was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. The monastery is notable for its church and cloister, both of which are circular.
27. Tabernáculo Baptista
The Baptist Tabernacle is an evangelical temple located at Praça Mouzinho de Albuquerque, 193 - roundabout of Boavista, in the city of Porto, Portugal, headquarters of the First Baptist Church of Porto, the oldest in the country, officially organized on December 20, 1908, in a house located on Rua da Travagem. This temple was only built and inaugurated eight years later, on February 13, 1916, during the First World War. On February 13, 2016, it celebrated its first centenary.
28. Serralves Villa
Serralves is a cultural institution located in Porto, Portugal. It includes a contemporary art museum, a park, and a villa, with each one of these being an example of contemporary architecture, Modernism, and Art Deco architecture. The museum, designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira, is now the second most visited museum in Portugal.
29. Museu do Vinho do Porto
The Port Wine Museum is a museum located in Porto, Portugal. The museum recounts the history of port wine and its relevance to the city and the country. The museum is located in an 18th-century warehouse, the Companhia Geral da Agricultura das Vinhas do Alto Douro, next to Douro River.
Wikipedia: Port Wine Museum (EN), Website, Heritage Website Sipa
30. Capela de São Crispim e São Crispiniano
The São Crispim and St. Crispinian Chapel is located at the top of Santos Pousada Street, Bonfim, in the city of Porto, belonging to the respective Brotherhood. It is dedicated to São Crispim and St. Crispinian, and was built in 1878 to replace the original chapel, as well as the Annex Hospital and hostel of existing pilgrims since the fourteenth century and which were located at Rua das Congosas (current Rua Mousinho da Silveira, demolished on the occasion to open that artery.
31. Chafariz do Anjo
The Fountain of São Miguel is a fountain located in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the Portuguese north, municipality of Porto, classified as a Imóvel de Interesse Público.
Wikipedia: Fountain of São Miguel (EN), Heritage Website Sipa
32. Igreja Paroquial do Carvalhido
The Parish Church of Carvalhido is located at Rua da Prelada, nº122, parish of Cedofeita, Carvalhido area, in the city of Porto, Portugal. It has an auditorium and at the entrance you can see an image with the Porto-Jerusalem road. It is a project by the architect Luís Cunha. The blessing of the foundation stone of this new temple took place on June 30, 1967 and two years later, on January 1, 1969, the first mass was celebrated in the crypt of the new temple.
33. Parque de São Roque
The Parque de São Roque or Quinta da Lameira has an area of more than 4 hectares and was acquired by the Porto City Council in 1979 from the Cálem family. The area that currently corresponds to the Park was once Quinta da Lameira, which originated in the division of Quinta da Bela-Vista.
34. Casa do Despacho da Ordem Terceira de São Francisco
The Casa do Despacho da Ordem Terceira de São Francisco, which was also the Cemetery of the Third Order, is an eighteenth-century building located in the current parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the city of Porto, Portugal.
Wikipedia: Casa do Despacho da Ordem Terceira de São Francisco (PT), Heritage Website Sipa
35. Portuguese Photography Centre
The Portuguese Centre of Photography was founded in 1997. The first exhibitions began in December of the same year on the ground floor of the building until 2000. The building was temporarily closed for renovation and reopened in 2001.
36. Igreja do Corpo Santo de Massarelos
The construction of the Church of the Confraternity of the Souls of the Holy Body of Massarelos began in 1776. It only became the parish church of Massarelos when the Church of Santa Maria da Boa Viagem, the old seat of the parish until it fell into ruins.
37. Capela de Nossa Senhora das Verdades
It is actually the Chapel of Our Lady of Truths as it houses the image of the Virgin that topped the Gate of Truths, one of the gates of the Primitive Wall of Porto, torn down in the nineteenth century.
38. Igreja Matriz de Paranhos
Paranhos is another of the most recent parishes in Porto. It was an area of fields until very recently. The Mother Church of Paranhos dates from at least 1123, if not older, because 1123 is only the first documentary reference, nothing makes a more remote existence impossible.
39. Igreja de São João Novo
The church of São João Novo is a Roman Catholic church located in Largo de São João Novo, in the union of the parishes of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau and Vitória, in the city of Porto. It is a monument inscribed in the ZEP of the Historic Centre of Porto, Cultural Heritage of Humanity (UNESCO).
40. Capela do Sagrado Coração
The Chapel of the Eyelashes or Chapel of the Divine Heart of Jesus is a private chapel, of neo-Gothic style, located in the Union of Parishes of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau and Vitória, in the city of Porto.
Wikipedia: Capela dos Pestanas (PT), Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website
41. Chapel of Souls
The Chapel of Santa Catarina, also known as the Chapel of Souls, is a chapel located on the shopping street of Rua de Santa Catarina, in the former parish of Santo Ildefonso, in the city of Porto, in Portugal. It is particularly noted for the blue azulejo tiles on its exterior walls.
Wikipedia: Chapel of Santa Catarina (EN), Heritage Website Sipa
42. Farolim de Felgueiras
The Felgueiras Lighthouse , also known as the Farol de Felgueiras, Farolim do Molhe de Felgueiras, or Farolim Cabeça de Molhe, is a lighthouse on the Portuguese Atlantic coast, situated on a jetty or mole on the right bank of the Douro River, at the point where the river meets the ocean. It is situated in the parish of Foz do Douro, in the Porto municipality.
43. Lello & Irmão Bookstore
Livraria Lello is a Portuguese bookstore and publisher, whose headquarters are located at number 144 of Rua das Carmelitas, in the Historic Center of the city of Porto. Classified as a Monument of Public Interest, and in the process of becoming a National Monument, Livraria Lello preserves the original beauty of its building.
Wikipedia: Livraria Lello e Irmão (PT), Website, Heritage Website Sipa
44. Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis
The Soares dos Reis National Museum is housed in the Carrancas Palace, which was the residence of Manuel Mendes de Morais e Castro, in the parish of Miragaia, in the city and district of Porto, in Portugal. It is a museum of fine arts, decorative arts and archaeology.
Wikipedia: Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis (PT), Facebook, Heritage Website Sipa, Website
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