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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
Porto (Oporto) and the Douro River, Portugal