63 Sights in Porto, Portugal (with Map and Images)

The Porto Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church located in the historical centre of the city of Porto, Portugal. It is one of the city's oldest monuments and one of the most important local Romanesque monuments.

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The Stock Exchange Palace is a historical building in Porto, Portugal. The palace was built in the 19th century by the city's Commercial Association in Neoclassical style. It is located in the Infante D. Henrique Square in the historical centre of Porto, designated World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

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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.

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The Fountain of the Lions, is a 19th-century fountain built by French company Compagnie Générale des Eaux pour l'Etranger, in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória in municipality of Porto. Cast by the Val d’Osne foundry in France, it is a copy, in most part, of the fountain in the Town Hall Square of Leicester, England

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Ribeira is one of the oldest and most typical places in the city of Porto, Portugal. Located in the parish of São Nicolau, next to the Douro River, it is part of the Historic Center of Porto, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is currently an area very frequented by tourists and a place of concentration of bars and restaurants.

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Dom Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu, better known as Prince Henry the Navigator, was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion. Through his administrative direction, he is regarded as the main initiator of what would be known as the Age of Discovery. Henry was the fourth child of King John I of Portugal, who founded the House of Aviz.

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São Bento railway station is a 20th-century railway terminal in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the municipality of Porto, district of Porto. The English translation of São Bento is Saint Benedict. The station is located in the Historic Centre of Porto, which has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site and as a National Monument of Portugal.

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The Church of Our Lady of 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 set of buildings that includes the Lapa cemetery, the Brotherhood's primary school and the Brotherhood of Lapa Hospital. In the chancel is buried the heart of King Pedro IV of Portugal, donated in his will to the brotherhood.

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The Serralves Museum, located in the city of Porto, is considered one of the best museums in 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.

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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.

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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.

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The Porto Planetarium - Centro Ciência Viva is located in the city, municipality 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.

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Deutsche Schule zu Porto, in English German School of Oporto or simply DSP, is a German school located in Oporto, Portugal. In Portugal, it is considered a private school, as in Germany it corresponds to a public school.

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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.

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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.

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The Cinema Batalha is a Portuguese cinema and concert venue in civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, municipality of Porto. Originally known as the Salão High-Life, it was moved from Boavista by its owners to its current location, and rebuilt by architect Artur Andrade in the Art-Deco style, re-inaugurated on 3 June 1947. After many years of success, the building and the cinema began losing customers, and was closed in 2003.

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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.

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The Bom Sucesso Market is a building in Porto. It was inaugurated in 1952 as a fresh market, with a project by the ARS Arquitectos office. In 2011 it was classified as a monument of public interest. In the same year it was closed for works, having been reopened in 2013 as a commercial gallery, with restaurant shops, offices and a hotel.

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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.

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The Church of the Carmelites or Church of the Discalced Carmelites is located in the parish of Vitória, in the city of Porto, Portugal. It began to be built in 1616 and was completed in 1628. The interior decoration would only be ready in 1650. It was classified as a National Monument on May 3, 2013, together with the Church of Carmo, built later from 1752, and both churches are united by the so-called Casa Escondida do Porto, just over one meter wide.

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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.

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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.

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The Ferreira Borges Market is a historic building located in the city of Porto, Portugal, with access from Praça do Infante D. Henrique, Rua de Ferreira Borges, Rua de Sousa Viterbo and Rua Mouzinho da Silveira.

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The Lycée Français International de Porto is a French international school in Porto, Portugal. Its education ranges from maternelle (preschool) to lycée. The French School of Porto was formally inaugurated on 30 October 1963 by the Ambassador of France in Lisbon M. De Beauverger.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Lighthouse of Sobreiras, also known as the Medieval Lighthouse or the Lighthouse of the Three Ears, was a Portuguese lighthouse that was located on the slope of Sobreiras, in the parish of Lordelo do Ouro, City of Porto.

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The Lighthouse of São Miguel-o-Anjo is a former hermitage and 16th century lighthouse, in the civil parish of Aldoar, Foz do Douro e Nevogilde, municipality of Porto, in the Portuguese Norte Region. The lighthouse of São Miguel-o-Anjo is Portugal's oldest existing lighthouse and one of the oldest in Europe. Designed by Italian architect Francesco da Cremona, the project was completed in 1538.

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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.

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The Church of the Venerable Third Order of Saint Francis, or Church of the Third Order of Saint Francis, is a church located between the Church of Saint Francis and the House of Dispatch of the Third Order of Saint Francis, in the current parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau and Vitória, in the city of Porto, Portugal.

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The Residence Rua D. Hugo is a residence and archaeological site in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the municipality of Porto, in the Portuguese district of Porto.

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The Casa da Câmara is a former-administrative building located in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the municipality of Porto, in northern Portugal.

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The Palace of São João Novo is a palace/residence in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the municipality of Porto, in the Portuguese district of the same name.

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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, in Portugal.

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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 the streets Faria Guimarães, Bolama, street and alley of Monte de São João and part of the street of Álvaro de Castelões.

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The Museum of Transport and Communication is a museum in Porto, northern Portugal, founded in 1992. The museum is located in the Alfandega Nova building, dating from 1860, located beside the Douro River.

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Casa Vicent is a historic building in the civil parish of Santo Ildefonso, in the Portuguese city of Porto. Located in the historic lower town, the shop is notable for the Art Nouveau and Rococo elements and undulating forms of its iron facade; it is similar to the facades of the Ourivesaria Cunha and Ourivesaria Reis along the same road, all constructed by the Companhia Aliança.

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The Chapel of Carlos Alberto is a cenotaph that, a few years after its construction, was surrounded by the Gardens of the Crystal Palace, in the city of Porto. It is considered the largest romantic cenotaph in Portugal.

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The Baptist Tabernacle is an evangelical temple located at Praça Mouzinho de Albuquerque, 193 - Rotunda da 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.

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The monument to Almeida Garrett, an outstanding personality of the nineteenth century born in Porto, is located in front of the Porto City Hall, in General Humberto Delgado square at the top of Avenida dos Aliados.

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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.

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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.

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The English Club of Porto, is the name referring to the building along Rua das Virtudes, a 14th-century manorhouse situated in the Portugueses civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, municipality of Porto.

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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.

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The Parish Church of Carvalhido of its name Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 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 there is an image with the Porto-Jerusalem road. It is a project by the architect Luís Cunha. The blessing of the first 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.

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São Roque Park or Quinta da Lameira has more than 4 hectares of area and was acquired by the Porto City Council in 1979 to the Calem family. The area that currently corresponds to the park was in Quinta da Lameira which originated in the division of Quinta da Bela-Vista.

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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 and Vitória, in the city of Porto, Portugal.

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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.

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The Museu da Misericórdia do Porto is located in the historic center of Porto, on Rua das Flores, in the building that was the headquarters of the institution from the mid-sixteenth century until 2013.

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The Cruzeiro do Senhor do Padrão is a monument of religious architecture in Porto, Portugal. It is located in an urban area, in the Praça do Exército Libertador, at the confluence of Rua de Oliveira Monteiro and Rua de 9 de Julho, in the place of Carvalhido, parish of Cedofeita, municipality of Porto.

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It is actually the Chapel of Our Lady of Truths because it houses the image of the Virgin that topped the Door of Truths, one of the doors of the Primitive Wall of Porto, torn down in the nineteenth century.

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Paranhos is another of the most recent parishes in Porto. It was a field area 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 unfeasible.

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The Maria Pia Hospital was founded in 1882, in the city of Porto. One of the most important and prestigious pediatric hospitals in Portugal. With an Intensive Care Service and access to the most modern methods of patient study. Maria Pia Hospital practiced the most important treatment techniques, performing more than 4800 surgical operations annually. It had 125 beds, received more than 5200 patients annually and carried out about 80,000 consultations and consultations.

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The World of Discoveries - Interactive Digital Exhibition is a space dedicated to the Portuguese Discoveries located inside the old warehouses of Real Companhia Velha, in Miragaia, in the historic center of Porto.

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The Tower of D. Pedro Pitões is a former-medieval fortification situated in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, that protected the northern Portuguese city of Porto.

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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.

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The church of São João Novo is a Catholic temple 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 Center of Porto, Cultural Heritage of Humanity (UNESCO).

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The Chapel of the Pestanas or Chapel of the Divine Heart of Jesus is a private chapel, in neo-Gothic style, located in the Union of Parishes of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau and Vitória, in the city of Porto.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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