Porto

Porto is 's second largest city and the capital of the , and a busy industrial and commercial centre. The city isn't very populous, but the Porto metropolitan area has some 1.8 million inhabitants in a 50-km radius, with cities like , , and .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Estádio do Bessa and Casa da Música.

Stadium
Photo: Rui Reis, CC BY 2.0.
The Sec. XXI is a football located in the Boavista area of , ; it is the home ground of Boavista Futebol Clube. Like other stadiums used in Euro 2004, the Bessa is a new ground but built on top of the old stands, with each new stand being constructed at different times, which allowed Boavista to continue playing there during the project.

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The is a concert hall in , Portugal. It was designed by architect Rem Koolhaas and opened in 2005. Designed to mark the festive year of 2001 in which the city of Porto was designated European Capital of Culture, it was the first building…

Museum
Photo: Manuel de Sousa, Public domain.
The Stock Exchange Palace is a historical building in , . The palace was built in the 19th century by the city's Commercial Association in Neoclassical style.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vila Nova de Gaia and Matosinhos.

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is a city the region of , immediately facing across the Duoro river. The two cities form the core of a contiguous metropolitan area.

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, officially the City of , is a city and a municipality in the district of in . The municipality covers an area of approximately 62.42 square kilometres and had 172,557 inhabitants in 2021.

Porto

Latitude
41.1556° or 41° 9′ 20″ north
Longitude
-8.6267° or 8° 37′ 36″ west
Population
238,000
Elevation
89 metres (292 feet)
Open location code
8CHH594F+68
Geo­Names ID
6458924
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Porto” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بورتو”
  • Armenian: “Պորտու”
  • Asturian: “Portu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Portu”
  • Belarusian: “Горад Порту”
  • Bengali: “পোর্তু”
  • Bishnupriya: “পর্টো”
  • Bulgarian: “Порто”
  • Chinese: “波爾圖”
  • Corsican: “Portu”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Portu”
  • Extremaduran: “Oportu”
  • French: “Porto”
  • Georgian: “პორტუ”
  • German: “Porto”
  • Greek: “Πόρτο”
  • Hebrew: “פורטו”
  • Japanese: “ポルト”
  • Kazakh: “Порту”
  • Korean: “포르투”
  • Latin: “Portus Cale”
  • Latvian: “Portu”
  • Lezghian: “Порту”
  • Lithuanian: “Portas”
  • Malayalam: “ഒപ്പോർട്ടോ”
  • Marathi: “पोर्तू”
  • Mazanderani: “پورتو”
  • Mongolian: “Порту”
  • Ossetian: “Порту”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੋਰਤੋ”
  • Persian: “پورتو”
  • Portuguese: “Porto”
  • Russian: “Порту”
  • Serbian: “Порто”
  • Spanish: “Oporto”
  • Spanish: “Porto”
  • Tagalog: “Oporto”
  • Tetum: “Portu”
  • Thai: “โปร์ตู”
  • Ukrainian: “Порту”
  • Urdu: “پورٹو”
  • Uzbek: “Portu”
  • Western Panjabi: “پورتو”

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Localities in the Area

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