Porto, World Heritage city

It is the great gateway and can be a starting point for a journey through the natural and cultural diversity of the region. It is known for wine that in part to the whole world, but also by the School of Architecture, from which came the names of Álvaro Siza Vieira and Souto de Moura, both Pritzker Prize. And on a heritage that knows how to combine the ancient churches and monuments such as the Cathedral or the Church of St. Francis, with the contemporaneity of striking buildings such as Casa da Música, Serralves Museum and others.

The Douro River crosses the region. Enters Portugal tight between ravines and inland mountains to go across the landscape of the World Heritage which are grown wines from Porto and the Douro. There it crosses the wine that goes to the wine cellars in Gaia and cruises visiting the region.

In this region of mountains and natural parks, heritage spreads by castles, such as Guimarães, or shrines and churches in the summer are the scene of pilgrimages. Next to rural chapels we found the Northern Baroque Portugal made of granite and gilded. In cities that knew how to preserve the human scale, as Viana do Castelo, Braga, Lamego, Chaves and Vila Real, or in solar and manors, we find the most authentic Portuguese, who like genuinely receive, to share their table and traditions. Porto and North of Portugal lives up naturally joy and gratitude for all we have and are.