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The Rabelo boat is a traditional Portuguese cargo boat that for centuries was used to transport people and goods along the Douro River.
Native from the Douro region, it does not exist in any other place of the world. Its history is closely linked to the production and trade of port wine. Before the arrival of the railway, the rabelo was the fastest and the most efficient means of transport between the Douro Valley, where port wine is produced, and the city of Porto, where it was traded and exported worldwide.
Beautiful Porto, the second largest city in Portugal, is filled with history & charm. This was my first glimpse of it across the River Duoro.
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Porto is the second-largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon, and the name “Porto” itself influenced the name of the country “Portugal”. Established by the Celts on the mouth of the Douro River, it was occupied by the Romans during the fourth century, transforming it into an influential commercial port and renaming it “Portus Cale”. Porto is best known for two things: its river, the Douro, an evermore popular choice for river cruises, and its port. ... One of the oldest cities in Europe, its maze of steep and narrow cobbled streets is home to beautiful plazas, churches and houses with colourfully tiled façades.
View of Porto, Gaia, the river Douro and the Dom Luís I Bridge from the belvedere of the Mosteiro da Serra do Pilar
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Oporto es la segunda ciudad más poblada de Portugal, después de Lisboa.
Tenía 297 559 habitantes en el año 2011. Su densidad de población es de 5560 habitantes/km2. Contornan el núcleo central de la ciudad de Oporto la subregión de Gran Oporto y, de manera más amplia, el Área Metropolitana de Oporto, que forma su área metropolitana de 2.959.045 habitantes. Se encuentra en el norte del país, en la ribera derecha del Duero en su desembocadura en el océano Atlántico. Es sede del distrito homónimo, en la Región Norte de Portugal.
El municipio de Oporto tiene 15 freguesias (equivalentes a parroquias o barrios). Limita al norte con Matosinhos y Maia, al este con Gondomar, al sur con el río Duero y Vila Nova de Gaia, y al oeste con el océano Atlántico.
Como muchas ciudades europeas, Oporto es una ciudad antigua que cuenta con un amplio patrimonio histórico, aunque durante las últimas décadas ha sido sometida a una amplia modernización. Cuenta con el metro más largo de Portugal, que cubre no solo el centro, sino también zonas de su área metropolitana como Senhora da Hora o Maia. Asimismo, el Aeropuerto Internacional Sá Carneiro ha sido recientemente ampliado para permitir una capacidad de 16 millones de pasajeros anuales.
Desde muy antiguo hay una rivalidad entre Lisboa y Oporto. Dicen que esta ciudad tiene un cierto aire británico, desde que se asentaron allí comerciantes de vino ingleses. Un refrán popular reza: «Lisboa se divierte, Coímbra estudia, Braga reza y Oporto trabaja».
Su centro histórico fue declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 1996. Otros atractivos turístico-culturales son la torre de los Clérigos, realizada por Nicolau Nasoni, la Casa da Música y la Fundación Serralves, dedicada al arte contemporáneo, y que es el museo más visitado de Portugal. En el margen sur del río Duero se encuentran las famosas bodegas de vinos, aunque este sector ya no pertenece al término municipal de Oporto sino a Vila Nova de Gaia. Dista de la frontera española con Galicia unos 140 km, que pueden recorrerse por autopista.
Tanto el país como el vino de Oporto deben sus nombres a la ciudad, que a su vez significa «el puerto». Por su pujanza cultural, demográfica e industrial es considerada como la «Capital del Norte» de Portugal.
En 2014 y 2017 fue elegida como el mejor destino turístico por la Agencia Europea de Destinos Turísticos y forma parte de la Ruta Portuguesa del Camino de Santiago. También es sede de uno de los mejores equipos de fútbol de Portugal: el FC Porto.
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Porto or Oporto is the second-largest city in Portugal and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropolitan area, with an estimated population of just 215,945 people in a municipality with only 41.42 km2. Porto's metropolitan area has around 1.7 million people (2019) in an area of 2,395 km2 (925 sq mi), making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a global city with a Gamma + rating from the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.
Located along the Douro River estuary in northern Portugal, Porto is one of the oldest European centres, and its core was proclaimed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996, as "Historic Centre of Porto, Luiz I Bridge and Monastery of Serra do Pilar". The historic area is also a National Monument of Portugal. The western part of its urban area extends to the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. Its settlement dates back many centuries, when it was an outpost of the Roman Empire. Its combined Celtic-Latin name, Portus Cale, has been referred to as the origin of the name Portugal, based on transliteration and oral evolution from Latin. In Portuguese, the name of the city includes a definite article: o Porto ("the port" or "the harbor"), which is where its English name "Oporto" comes from.
Port wine, one of Portugal's most famous exports, is named after Porto, since the metropolitan area, and in particular the cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia, were responsible for the packaging, transport, and export of fortified wine. In 2014 and 2017, Porto was elected The Best European Destination by the Best European Destinations Agency. Porto is on the Portuguese Way path of the Camino de Santiago. Porto is also the home of one of the country's most successful football clubs, FC Porto.
Porto (P) 20-09-2018
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Coruja-buraqueira - Burrowing Owl
Athene cunicularia
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Strigidae (Família)
Strigiformes (Ordem)
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Porto, Ponte Dom Luís I (P) 04-09-2015
Rio Douro & Cais da Estiva
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The double-deck metal arch bridge "Ponte de Dom Luís I" on the Douro river, Porto - Portugal
Ponte Infante Dom Henrique is also visible on the left in the background.
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Porto (P) 16-09-2012
Rua de Sá de Bandeira
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Rua 31 de Janeiro
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