Porto > Porto Experience

Advantages: Beautiful City, Excellent Night Life
Disadvantages: Can't Find Any

...it's enough to know that Porto is a Beautiful city with the Douro River (you can make a trip by ferry departing from Ribeira to Spain) as a great landscape and of course the tasteful Port (you can visit the Porto caves where this wine is made). If you're looking for fun, I suggest going to Ribeira and Foz where you can find great bars and discos. In the summer you have several beaches to go (not far from Porto, 4/5 miles away), among them Miramar ...
...as well, and again great fun at night(better go to Francelos for fun 1 or 2 miles away from Miramar) If you like to shop and good restaurants, either you can go to Boavista (the expensive area of Porto, where you can find the best 5*** hotels as well), or you can go to Cedofeita (the less expensive area).In Cedofeita there is several monuments really beautiful and very old, among them the famous Clerigos tower (the view from there is great). You ... Read review

Advantages: A perfect City break
Disadvantages: Few

...of the Douro. The name Porto means port in Portuguese – the harbour kind, not the wine -, so no guessing what it’s major industry was! When the country was still a duchy of the kingdom of Leon, it was named for it’s major town, PortoCale, since Lisbon was still in the hands of the Moors. When King Afonso Henriques secured independence the country took it’s name from the same root – which must really annoy the Lisbonites ...
...‘Lisbon plays, Braga prays and Porto works’, so the northerners look down on the ‘soft southerners’ from the capital – it cuts both ways. Oporto is at the hub of Portugal's northern industrial region and its wealth is obvious, with a palacial Stock Exchange, the Clerigos tower built in the C18th by an Italian architect; Sao Bento railway station with 20,000 hand-painted tiles of historical scenes decorating the walls ... Read review