Porto - Portugal and its charms (Port wine)

Porto (also Oporto; Portugal) is a city in northern Portugal and is the second largest city in Portugal, with a 2005 estimated population of 238,465 in the 15 parishes of Porto municipality, 1.6 million in the 14 Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto municipalities, which is an administrative and political entity, and 2.99 million people in the broader agglomeration of Porto Metropolitan Region.
Due to its economic output and market size, Greater Porto area is one of the major financial and economic centers of the northwestern quarter of the Iberian Peninsula. Porto's municipality is the core of a large northern Atlantic conurbation, and Porto district is one of the most industrialized districts of Portugal.
One of Portugal's most internationally famous products, Port wine, was named after the city because it was originally shipped from the area or, more precisely, from Vila Nova de Gaia, a city just across the river which belongs to the same conurbation. The country was also named after the Latin name of this city, Portus Cale (English: Port of Gaia).

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[miguelmail]

@sandiecoop1 e verdade e sempre bom lembrar Portugal e ainda mais qd esta cidade e a cidade em que eu nasci e vivi por muitos anos mas agora vivo no Canada tb, vivo em Toronto, mas trago sempre cmg Portugal no meu coracao.

[aurelioamado1]

Simplesmente LINDO!!!

[AlpendreSobreMar]

Caramba! coube praticamente tudo! obrigada por nos lembrar toda a magia do nosso Porto!

[sandiecoop1]

Being portuguese and in the middle of a Canadian Blizzard this was a piece of heaven. Obrigado!! Sandie:)

[leoameiga]

Belissimas imagens.Parabéns