Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Porto, Portugal

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Number of sights 36 sights
Distance 8.5 km
Ascend 246 m
Descend 238 m

Experience Porto in Portugal in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in PortoIndividual Sights in Porto

Sight 1: Museu do Romântico

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The Romantic Museum is one of the museums of the Museum of the City of Porto, in Portugal.

Wikipedia: Museu Romântico da Quinta da Macieirinha (PT), Website

8 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 2: Casa Tait

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Casa TaitFrancisco Restivo from Porto, Portugal / CC BY 2.0

The Tait House is a former 18th century residence in the civil parish of Lordelo do Ouro e Massarelos, in the municipality of Porto, in northern Portugal. Today it is a Museum of Numismatics.

Wikipedia: Casa Tait (EN), Heritage Website Sipa

478 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: Capela Carlos Alberto: Igreja Luterana do Porto

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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.

Wikipedia: Capela Carlos Alberto (PT)

173 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Jardins do Palácio de Cristal

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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.

Wikipedia: Jardins do Palácio de Cristal (PT), Website

662 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 5: Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis

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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.

Wikipedia: Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis (PT), Facebook, Heritage Website Sipa, Website, Heritage Website

557 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 6: Jardim de Carrilho Videira

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Jardim de Carrilho Videira Gatien Couturier / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Carregal Garden, whose official name is Jardim de Carrilho Videira, is located in the parish of Miragaia, in the city and district of Porto, Portugal.

Wikipedia: Jardim do Carregal (PT), Website

293 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Igreja dos Carmelitas

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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.

Wikipedia: Igreja dos Carmelitas (PT), Heritage Website Sipa

117 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Fonte dos Leões

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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

Wikipedia: Fountain of the Lions (Porto) (EN), Heritage Website Sipa

177 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Lello & Irmao Bookstore

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Lello & Irmao Bookstore Pedro Ribeiro Simões / CC BY 2.0

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

323 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 10: Jardim de João Chagas

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Jardim de João Chagas

The João Chagas Garden — popularly known as the Cordoaria Garden — is located in Campo dos Mártires da Pátria, in the city of Porto, Portugal.

Wikipedia: Jardim de João Chagas (PT), Heritage Website Sipa

413 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Clube Inglês do Porto

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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.

Wikipedia: English Club of Porto (EN), Heritage Website Sipa

35 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 12: Fonte das Taipas

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The Fountain of Rua das Taipas is a fountain in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the municipality of Porto, Portugal.

Wikipedia: Fountain of Rua das Taipas (EN), Heritage Website Sipa

171 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Palácio de São João Novo

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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.

Wikipedia: Palace of São João Novo (EN), Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website

50 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Igreja de São João Novo

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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).

Wikipedia: Igreja de São João Novo (PT)

188 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: Igreja de São Pedro de Miragaia

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The Church of São Pedro de Miragaia is located in the parish of Miragaia, in the city and district of Porto, in Portugal.

Wikipedia: Igreja de São Pedro de Miragaia (PT), Heritage Website Sipa

356 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 16: Museu dos Transportes e Comunicações

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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.

Wikipedia: Museum of Transport and Communication (EN), Website

132 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Alfândega Nova do Porto

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Alfândega Nova is located on the right bank of the Douro River, in the parish of Miragaia, in the city and district of Porto, Portugal.

Wikipedia: Alfândega Nova (Porto) (PT), Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website

104 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 18: World of Discoveries

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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.

Wikipedia: World of Discoveries (PT)

83 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Fonte da Colher

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The Fountain of Colher, is a fountain in the civil parish of Miragaia, in the municipality of Porto, under the level of the Rua Nova da Alfândega.

Wikipedia: Chafariz da Colher (EN), Heritage Website Sipa

292 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 20: Fonte das Virtudes

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The Fountain of the Virtues is a fountain in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the municipality of Porto.

Wikipedia: Fountain of the Virtues (EN), Heritag Website Sipa, Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website

677 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 21: Clerics Tower

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The Clérigos Church and Tower is a remarkable architectural complex located in the city of Porto, Portugal, and is considered the postcard of that city.

Wikipedia: Torre dos Clérigos (PT), Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website

34 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 22: Igreja dos Clérigos

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The Clérigos Church and Tower is a remarkable architectural complex located in the city of Porto, Portugal, and is considered the postcard of that city.

Wikipedia: Igreja e Torre dos Clérigos (PT), Website, Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website

242 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 23: Quiosque na Praça Mouzinho de Albuquerque

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The Kiosk of Praça Mouzinho de Albuquerque existed for more than seven decades in this square, in the parish of Cedofeita, in the city of Porto, Portugal.

Wikipedia: Quiosque na Praça Mouzinho de Albuquerque (PT), Heritage Website Sipa

65 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 24: Dom Pedro IV

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94 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 25: Igreja de Santo António dos Congregados

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The Church of the Congregados is located in Praça de Almeida Garrett, in the city of Porto, Portugal.

Wikipedia: Igreja dos Congregados (PT), Website, Heritage Website Sipa, Website

184 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 26: Teatro Sá da Bandeira

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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.

Wikipedia: Teatro Sá da Bandeira (EN), Heritage Website Sipa

205 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 27: Teatro Municipal Rivoli

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Teatro Municipal Rivoli

Rivoli Theatre is a municipal theatre in Porto, Portugal.

Wikipedia: Rivoli Theatre (Portugal) (EN), Heritage Website Sipa, Website

429 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 28: Grande Hotel do Porto

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The Grande Hotel do Porto is a hotel located on Rua de Santa Catarina, in the city of Porto, Portugal.

Wikipedia: Grande Hotel do Porto (PT), Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website

180 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 29: Café Majestic

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Café Majestic

Café Majestic is an historic café, located at Rua de Santa Catarina, in Porto, Portugal.

Wikipedia: Café Majestic (EN), Website

93 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 30: Coliseu do Porto

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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.

Wikipedia: Coliseu do Porto (EN), Heritage Website Sipa, Website , Heritage Website

293 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 31: Igreja Paroquial de Santo Ildefonso

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The Igreja de Santo Ildefonso is an eighteenth-century church in Porto, Portugal. The church is located near Batalha Square.

Wikipedia: Church of Saint Ildefonso (EN), Heritagewebsitesipa , Heritage Website

140 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 32: Batalha Centro de Cinema

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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.

Wikipedia: Cinema Batalha (Porto) (EN), Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website

189 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 33: Teatro Nacional São João

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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.

Wikipedia: São João National Theatre (EN), Website, Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website

257 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 34: Igreja do Terço

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The church of the Order of the Rosary is located in Rua de Cimo de Vila, Porto, Portugal.

Wikipedia: Igreja da Ordem do Terço (PT), Website, Heritage Website Sipa

483 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 35: Vicent

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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.

Wikipedia: Casa Vicent (EN)

355 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 36: Estação de São Bento

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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.

Wikipedia: São Bento railway station (EN), Website, Heritage Website Sipa, Heritage Website

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