Porto and the North
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We’ve compiled the best of the best in Porto and the North - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.
Sitting high atop a wooded hill, this white granite-domed basilica is one of the most beautiful in Portugal. A funicular railway can carry you...Read More
Many people come to Braga specifically to see the Bom Jesus do Monte, a pilgrimage shrine atop a 1,312-foot-high, densely wooded hill 5 km ...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesA string of fish restaurants and tascas (taverns) are built into the street-level arcade of timeworn buildings along this pier. In the Praça...Read More
Home to the National Orchestra of Porto and Portugal's Baroque Orchestra, this soaring postmodern temple to music was designed by legendary...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesAn exceptional baroque mansion believed to have been designed by Nicolau Nasoni (architect of Porto's dashing Clérigos Tower), the Casa de Mateus...Read More
Housed in a spooky yet stately 18th-century jailhouse, this stellar museum hosts an ever-changing rotation of exhibits of works by modern Portuguese...Read More
Within the walls of the Cidadela, you'll find the Castelo and the Domus Municipalis (City Hall), a rare Romanesque civic building dating to...Read More
About 9 km (5½ miles) northwest of Guimarães you'll find these fascinating remains of a Celtic citânia (hill settlement). It dates to around...Read More
With the most striking exterior of any church in Porto, Igreja de Santo Ildefonso has a facade covered with some 11,000 blue-and-white azulejo...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesDuring the last days of Porto's siege by the absolutist army (the miguelistas ) in July 1842, there was gunfire by the nearby Convent of of...Read More
The cloisters of a former monastery now house this museum and its excellent collection of modern Portuguese art, including important works by...Read More
Designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira, a winner of the Pritzker Prize and Portugal's best-known architect, this is Portugal's leading contemporary...Read More
This stunning museum sits at the center of the Douro Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, underscoring its importance in terms of cultural...Read More
The 172,900-acre park, sitting on the border with with Spain, was created in 1970 to preserve the region's diverse flora and fauna. It remains...Read More
One-hour tours of this quinta, which has a 100-year-old inn and two guest villas, start at 11 am and are limited to 24 people—during high season...Read More
One of the oldest quintas in the region, Quinta do Vallado is on the right bank of Rio Corgo near Rio Douro and has stunning views of terraced...Read More
The town's most famous monument is the 18th-century Santuário de Nossa Senhora dos Remédios, which has a marvelous granite staircase of 686...Read More
Designed by Italian architect Nicolau Nasoni and begun in 1754, the Baroque tower of the Igreja dos Clérigos is the tallest in Porto and a landmark...Read More
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