The old town centered at ribeira was built on the hills overlooking the douro river and today is a unesco world heritage site.

Portugal porto city. Porto is very different from lisbon unpretentious inward looking and unashamedly commercial. Porto city is small compared to its metropolitan area with a population of 237559 people. World famous for its port wine porto is portugals second largest city and is the commercial and industrial centre for the zone north of the mondego river.

I think all the cities are like this to some extent but i found this to be especially true there. Sometimes called oporto its an age old city that has one foot firmly in the industrial present. However if you time your visit to anywhere between may and october you should face more than acceptable temperatures and a majority of sunny days.

Porto known as oporto to the british is the capital of the north. Porto or oporto portuguese pronunciation. Porto is a city to be enjoyed with sunny weather.

Porto portuguese oporto city and port northern portugal. Potu listen is the second largest city in portugal and one of the iberian peninsula s major urban areas.