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Quaresma, Maria Clementina de Carvalho (1995), Inventário Artístico de Portugal - Cidade do Porto (in Portuguese), vol. 13, Lisbon, Portugal {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher Cordeiro, José Manuel Lopes (1 November 2011), "Ex-libris do Porto faz 125 anos", O Tripeiro (in Portuguese) (Série 2 ed.), pp. 328– 329
Centro Histórico do Porto The Historic center of Porto, listed as a World Heritage Site in 1996, is the oldest area of the cities of Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia, with a 2000-year history. Built on the hill that dominates the mouth of the Douro river, it has a number of varied monuments in different styles. [1] Cais da Ribeira
Palácio da Bolsa, view from near the Porto cathedral The Stock Exchange Palace ( Portuguese : Palácio da Bolsa ) is a historical building in Porto , Portugal . The palace was built in the 19th century by the city's Commercial Association ( Portuguese : Associação Comercial do Porto ) in Neoclassical style . [ 1 ]
There are 17 World Heritage Sites listed in Portugal, with a further 18 on the tentative list. The first four sites listed in Portugal were the Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in Lisbon, the Monastery of Batalha, the Convent of Christ in Tomar, and the town of Angra do Heroísmo, in 1983.
Episcopal Palace of Porto. The Episcopal Palace (Portuguese: Paço Episcopal) is the residence of the bishops of Porto, in Portugal. The palace is located on a high elevation, near Porto Cathedral, and dominates the skyline of the city. It is part of the historical centre of Porto, designated World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Porto's Crystal Palace was designed by English architect Thomas Dillen Jones and the Anglo-Irish engineer Francis Webb Sheilds.It was built at Torre da Marca on the edge of the city centre in granite, iron and glass, with the Crystal Palace in London serving as a model, as Jones and Sheilds had both worked on that building.
The stone roof of the central aisle is supported by flying buttresses, making the building one of the first in Portugal to use this architectonic feature. This first Romanesque building has suffered many alterations but the general aspect of the façade has remained romanesque. Inner view of rose window and central aisle of Porto Cathedral.
The service links the airport to Porto city center and by transfer in Trindade station to high-speed trains at Campanhã, and other urban centres of Greater Porto: in Verdes station to Vila do Conde and Póvoa de Varzim (using line B), Fonte do Cuco station to Maia (line C), Senhora da Hora station to Matosinhos (line A), and Trindade station ...