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Porto

Porto (Oporto in English), a city of nearly 238 thousand,1 with a metropolitan area exceeding 1.286 million,2 is centered near the mouth of the Douro River in Northern Portugal. It is famous for its dessert wines. UNESCO honored the city center as a World Heritage Site. Attention is drawn to the cathedral with its Romanesque choir, to the Neoclassical Stock Exchange and to the Manueline-style Church of Santa Clara.3 The tallest modern building is the Hotel Vila Galé Porto (249 feet, 1999). Another notable building is the Livraria (library) Lello (1906) with its Art Nouveau façade with neo-Gothic details.4

External references

Porto (Oporto) and the Douro River, Portugal

Historical maps

map showing parts of the Reino de España, Andorra/ Andorre, parts of the República Portuguesa and Gibraltar, 2000 CE

Footnotes

1. 2011 figure from the side bar of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto, accessed April 23, 2016.
2. Eurostat Larger urban zone (2014) column of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Europe, accessed December 28, 2015.
3. UNESCO, World Heritage Sites (Firefly Books, 2010).
4. Information about modern buildings is from emporis.com, accessed April 23, 2016.