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The names of local destinations were used to ornament the ceiling borders in the booking hall of Sao Bento station in Porto - with some being rather more obvious than others.

 

"DOVRO" can readily be understood as "Douro" - the city's vital river, down which port barges carried their precious cargoes - but no map bears any trace of "OHNIW", and reading it backwards may well confuse matters....

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Uploaded on September 25, 2019
Taken on September 3, 2019