Tram No1

Porto - Day 5

---

September 6th 2023
This morning we walked down to the tram terminus out the front of the Igreja de São Francisco. The church is just around the corner from Pálacio da Bolsa so this was our third time in this area of the city! We arrived just as a tram headed off but, fortunately, didn’t have to wait very long for the next tram. We had assumed that our Porto Transport Cards would cover the trams as it did in Lisb ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Northern » Porto

---

Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more