Porto from Villa Nova De Gaia

pounding the Port in Porto

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September 17th 2006
Cruised into Porto about 5pm after a 4 hour train ride. Took a cab to the hotel which was about a 2 minute walk and a 2 minute funicular ride (or a 5 min walk updown a lot of old sketchy cobblestone stairs) from the river. Down along the river is a nice bridge off of Avenida de Gustav Eiffel and it looks like the bridge was designed by him too. We had some dinner at a nice little restaurant alo ... read more

Europe » Portugal » Northern » Porto

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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