10 Things to do in Porto, Portugal Travel Guide
Join us as we visit Porto, Portugal in this travel guide covering 10 things to do including attractions, food and experiences. Porto ended up being one of our favorite cities during our Europe trip with my parents and is completely different from Lisbon. From riverside barrios to Neoclassical buildings and tram rides to stunning views over the Douro you'll find Porto is a city with no shortage of charm.
10 Things to do in Porto City Tour | Portugal Travel Guide: (Oporto)
Intro - 00:01
1) Visit the Blue Tiled Church “Chapel of Souls” (Igreja do Carmo -Capela das Almas) - 00:31
2) Shop for books inside Lello Bookstore (Livraria Lello) - 01:00
3) Set foot inside São Bento Train Station (Estação Ferroviária de São Bento) - 03:02 + Porto Cathedral (Sé do Porto) - 03:35
4) Explore the Riverside Quarter of Ribeira - 04:10
5) Sample local dishes from Porto at Terreirinho restaurant - 04:24
6) Visit the Church of Saint Francis (Igreja de São Francisco) - 05:54
7) Visit the Bolhão Market (Mercado do Bolhão) - 07:09
8) Walk across Dom Luís I Bridge for the best views of Porto (Ponte D. Luís I) - 08:33
9) Drink Port wine at Croft (vinho do Porto) - 10:25
10) Take a boat tour, cable car, funicular or walk down the Douro River - 10:04 & 12:16
*Bonus* Eat a Francesinha Portuguese sandwich - 12:40
Outro - 16:30
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Our visit Porto travel guide documentary covers some of the top attractions including a food guide to Portuguese cuisine, top sightseeing tourist attractions including visiting churches, monasteries, parks, wineries, bridges, quirky neighborhoods and museums. We also cover off-the-beaten-path outdoor activities you won't find in a typical Porto tourism brochure, Porto itinerary or Porto city tour also known as Oporto, Portuguesa.
10 Things to do in Porto, Portugal Travel Guide Video Transcript: (OPORTO)
Lisbon is beautiful, but Porto is magical. We arrived in Porto with our taxi driver’s words still ringing in our ears, and we’re happy to say, the city did not disappoint!
Our time in Porto was spent sipping on Port wine, soaking in the views across the Douro River, wandering through the hilly streets, and marvelling at buildings covered in blue tiles.
In this travel guide, we’re going to share a little bit of Porto’s magic with you, and also show you some of the things you too can see, eat, and drink when you visit Porto!
Known as the Chapel of Souls, this church is covered in tiles that represent moments in the life of Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Catherine.
This bookstore is a feast for the eyes. The bookstore was even frequented by JK Rowling when she taught English in Porto, and it’s reported to have been an inspiration in her Harry Potter series.
We continued our walk downhill until we reached the São Bento Train Station.
Porto Cathedral is one of the oldest landmarks in the city with cloisters where the walls are covered in blue tiles.
We reached the neighbourhood of Ribeira, which sits right on the shores of the Douro River. This neighbourhood is lined with many sidewalk cafes, bars, and restaurants, so it’s a nice place to rest your legs and do a bit of people watching. Feeling hungry we wandered down some of the back streets until we found a small restaurant serving up local specialities.
We made time for one more attraction: the Church of Saint Francis.
The Bridge we had all been waiting for was Dom Luis the first Bridge, which spans the Douro River. The lower deck carries regular traffic with narrow walkways for those on foot, and the upper deck is reserved for pedestrians and the metro lines.
For the best views of Porto, you need to walk the upper deck!
There was only one thing on our minds: visit one of the many wineries that line this side of the river! We ended up walking into Croft for a wine tasting without need for an appointment, and this turned out to be one of our favourite activities in Porto!
Filled to the brim with port wine, cheese and chocolate, we enjoyed a light stroll along the Douro River, watching the boats bob in the water.
That’s a wrap for our visit to Porto! We hope you guys enjoyed following along and that you got a few ideas for your own trip. If you have any other suggestions of fun things to do in and around Porto, feel free to share those with travellers in the comments below.
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Travel Memories... Carnivals of Wallonia, Belgium (slideshow 4' 30'') / Carnavals de Wallonie...
Every year during springtime and before Easter, lots of traditional (and sometimes very old) festivities take place in Wallonia (the French Speaking part of Belgium). Maybe you know Binche with the Gilles (listed UNESCO !) but there are lots more and smaller carnivals like in Eupen, Malmedy, Stavelot, Fosses, etc. Enjoy the slideshow !
25 Things to do in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Travel Guide
Hello from Rio de Janeiro! This was our first stop in Brazil and we were very excited to check out the top attractions, sample Brazilian cuisine, and squeeze in a little bit of beach time. We had an action packed week exploring the different neighbouhoods and trying everything from churrasco to brigadeiro, so we decided to film a city guide along the way. This video will showcase 25 things to do in Rio de Janeiro. Now let's get to it!
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1) Christ Redeemer (Cristo Redentor) & Trem do Corcovado
2) Ipanema Hippy Fair (Feira Hippie de Ipanema)
3) Selarón Steps (Escadaria Selarón)
4) Museum of Tomorrow (Museu do Amanhã)
5) Bike Tour of Rio with
6) Favela Tour with
7) Nature Hike up to Chapéu Mangueira Hill
8) Churrascaria: Buffet meat churrasco style
9) Ipanema Beach
10) Metropolitan Cathedral (Catedral Metropolitana de São Sebastião)
11) National Fine Arts Museum (Museu Nacional de Belas Artes MNBA)
12) Municipal Theatre of Rio (Theatro Municipal)
13) Cafe Colombo (Confeitaria Colombo) and Brigadeiro
14) Sugarloaf Mountain (Pão de Açúcar) by Cable Car
15) Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden (Jardim Botânico)
16) Sao Joao Batista Cemetery (Cemitério de São João Batista)
17) Copacabana Beach
18) Drink coconut juice from a fresh coconut
19) Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas (Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon)
20) Pão de queijo - Brazilian cheese bread
21) Praça Mauá area for museums on the weekend
22) Ride a bike all over Rio
23) Ride the subway (Rio de Janeiro Metro - Metrô Rio)
24) Feijoada (Brazilian stew with rice and beans)
25) Nightlife in Rio drinking a Caipirinhas
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Our visit Rio De Janeiro travel guide documentary, before the Olympics of 2016, covers some of the top attractions including a food guide (best restaurants and street food), top museums and Rio at night. We also cover off-the-beaten-path activities you won't find in a typical Rio De Janeiro tourism brochure or Rio De Janeiro, Brasil city tour.
25 Things to do in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Travel Guide and Top Attractions Transcript:
First up, we started with the city’s most iconic sight: Christ Redeemer. We boarded the train as soon as the station opened and made our way to the top of Corcovado Mountain. Sometimes the statue can be shielded by fog, but we lucked out with beautiful blue skies and panoramic views of the city as far as the eye could see.
For a bit of colour, we headed over to the Selaron Steps, which is a tiled staircase created by Chilean artist, Jorge Selarón. Initially Selaron would scavenge construction sites looking for tiles, but in later years as his work gained notoriety, travellers began donating tiles.
Since we chose to stay in the neighbourhood of Ipanema, we ended up spending quite a bit of time at Ipanema Beach. We noticed that this beach was really popular for beach football, volleyball, and surfing. And of course, what makes this beach so iconic are its two mountains, known as Dois Irmãos. If you come here on a clear day, you can catch a killer sunset.
No visit to Rio de Janeiro would be complete without heading up Sugarloaf Mountain, so when the skies finally cleared that’s exactly what we did. We paid for our tickets and boarded the cable car for a somewhat unnerving ride up. If you’re scared of heights, this probably isn’t the attraction for you, however, if you manage to make it to the top you get some really cool panoramic views of Rio.
Copacabana Beach is the most famed beach in all of Rio de Janeiro and if you were to visit on a weekend during the summer months you’d find that the place is packed beyond belief. We happened to be here in winter so things were a lot more relaxed, but that didn’t stop visitors from braving the waters.
We did a favela tour to Babilônia and Chapéu Mangueira. On our tour we saw lots of street art, learned about life inside a favela.
And that is a wrap! We hope this video will give you guys some ideas of things to do in Rio de Janeiro on your visit, and for those travellers who have already been there, feel free to add your suggestion of cool activities and attractions in the comments below.
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Places to see in ( Valenciennes - France )
Places to see in ( Valenciennes - France )
Nicknamed Athens of the Nord, the town of Valenciennes saw the birth of a number of famous artists, such as Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and Henri Harpignies. Numerous works of the painters and sculptors of Valenciennes can be admired at the Fine art museum. Just shy of the Belgian border in the Nord department, Valenciennes is a city noted for culture and creativity, which gave it the nickname, “Athens of the North”. For hundreds of years this relatively small place churned out painters, sculptors and architects who helped shape French culture forever.
You can sample the works of figures like Carpeaux and Watteau at Valenciennes’ fine arts museum, and view invaluable early French manuscripts by appointment at the Bibliothèque Municipale. Valenciennes stood in the path of two World Wars, but restored its monuments and has just revamped its centre with a trendy shopping mall.
In a city that has long prided itself on its culture Valenciennes’ fine arts museum is a treat. It opened in 1801, presenting the works of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture and today is loaded with works by French, Flemish and Dutch masters. One that everybody will know is Peter Paul Rubens, and he’s accompanied by a host of familiar names like Bosch, van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Sébastien Bourdon and Camille Pissarro.
Valenciennes, like a lot of the eastern Nord region, lies above rich coal seams which were first exploited in the 18th century. The industry was waning by the 20th century and almost all sign of it is gone today. But if you’re interested in this chapter of the town’s past there are dozens of sites to visit with hints about what went on here across two centuries. The best of these is Fosse Dutemple, a UNESCO site for its colossal reinforced concrete headframe, which was placed above the shaft just after the First World War.
By the Church of Saint-Géry on the Rue de Paris is a refined little garden around a fountain with a dignified statue of Antoine Watteau. Here he is shown with paint brush and palette in hand on a decorative plinth with muses and scrolls. The statue is from the 19th century and was crafted by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, another of Valenciennes’ notable artists. Carpeaux shot to prominence in the 1850s when he received a series of commissions from Napoleon III. Here you’re also just a couple of steps from Watteau’s birthplace, at 39 Rue de Paris.
In the very centre of Valenciennes, Place d’Armes is a grand square and the bedrock of political and commercial life in the city. The striking town hall will hold your attention right away. That ornate facade was fashioned in 1867 by Henri Lemaire, another son of Valenciennes who made waves in the art world. Among other things he crafted the facade of the Gare du Nord in Paris. Scraping the sky in the north end is Litanie, a 45-metre metallic needle on the site of Valenciennes’ belfry, which collapsed in 1840. Up close you’ll notice countless sentences cut from the metal; these were written by Valenciennes’ citizens and are accompanied by recordings of their voices from a speaker.
For a time between the 16th and 17th centuries Valenciennes was under the yoke of the Spanish Netherlands. It was during this period that the handsome timber-framed Maison Espagnole was built. The building with its graceful corbels and leaded windows, had been on the corner of Rue de Mons and Rue des Capucins, but was carefully dismantled and rebuilt here on Rue Askièvre in 1964 when the city’s streets were being redirected.
Recently Valenciennes has done a lot to spruce up the city centre, echoing similar projects at the heart of other French cities over the last decade or so. The biggest job was the Centre Place d’Armes, a stylish shopping centre with all the classic high street stores like H&M, Zara, Sephora and fnac. The mall is right on Valenciennes’ main square, so if it’s a rainy day or you fancy an afternoon of shopping you could easily while a way a few hours in here.
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Portuguese Food Review | Eating a Francesinha in Porto, Portugal
Join us for a Portuguese Food Review as we try eating a Francesinha in Porto, Portugal at one of the most famous restaurants (Bufete Fase) in the city. This Portuguese sandwich (Francesinha meaning Little Frenchie) originates from Porto invented by Daniel da Silva attempting to adapt the croque-monsieur after spending time in France and Belgium. The classic or most famous interpretation of the Francesinha includes the sandwich surrounded on a bed of chips smothered in sauce containing beer and tomato. The Porto sandwich itself features bread with wet cured ham, fresh sausage, inguiça, roast meat (steak) and melted cheese. Locals almost always have a favorite spot to eat this sandwich. Have you tried if before? Where do you think is the best place to grab one?
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Bufete Fase (Francesinha)
Fast Food Restaurant in Porto, Portugal
Address: Rua de Santa Catarina 1147, 4000-099 Porto, Portugal
Hours: Mon-Fri 12–4PM, 6:30–9:30PM & Sat-Sun (closed)
Phone: +351 22 205 2118
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Portuguese Food Review | Eating a Francesinha in Porto, Portugal Video Transcript:
if there is one meal that you have to eat when you come to Porto it is the famous Francesinha. We've been hearing about this sandwich forever. We're super excited to finally try it.
Basically this sandwich is said to have roots in Belgium and France. Apparently a Portuguese man had been living overseas and then when he returned back home to Portugal he was like I'm going to bring the Croque-monsieur to my country and kind of give it a little twist so the locals will enjoy it. And so the Francesinha was born. It is a massive sandwich we've seen them preparing it out front. It looks so so good. It looks so amazing. We're going to show you a few clips of that.
We're eating at the most famous restaurant of them all coming to Bufete Fase and they just specialize in the Francesinha. That is all they serve. There is no menu. You get this and you order a beer with it. You just come here for the sandwich and the beer. It is a must so that is what we're having.
Now we have two and these things are massive. Behemoths. I don't know how we're going to tackle this but let's talk about the ingredients.
Two slices of thick bread apparently the thicker the better and inside grilled bread too.
They grill it. It has got I believe sausage. Steak or roast beef. Look at all of that cheese. Copious amounts of cheese. Yeah, it is three different kinds of meat. Let's cut it down the middle. So you can see the inside. This is a dissection guys.
This is the dissection. It is covered in cheese all melted and the sauce that it is in it is a tomato and beer sauce. Look at how big that is.
I forgot to mention. I think it is Sagres is that how you say it? You've got to drink some beer with this. Sagres.
That seems to be the most popular beer that we've seen in Portugal so far.
What say you? Oh my gosh. Life changing?
There is no way I would want to share this with you. Now that I've tried it I'm glad I have my own. We're not going to be having much else today but we need our own. We asked for the sauce to be spicy and it is.
Anyways that was a gut bomb for the ages but in a good way. It is the kind of meal that you either have to really bring your appetite or share with a friend. It was a bit like a challenge sandwich. A little bit like a Gatsby we had in South Africa in Cape Town
But man it was good. And price point?
The sandwiches were 10 Euros each and the beer was only 1.50 That included the fries. Everything. In total for the meal for both of us plus two beers each it came to 23 Euros. I thought it was good value and my gosh we are stuffed. It is like the ultimate siesta time. I feel like we'll be skipping dinner tonight. We'll see you guys soon with more travel and food videos from Europe. Tata.
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Brazil Food Guide Compilation - Introduction to Brazilian Cuisine
Come join as we explore Brazilian Cuisine sampling delicious local eats in both Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Our Brazil Food Guide Compilation shows us sampling things such as Brigadeiro, Pão de queijo, Churrasco meat buffet, Feijoada Brasileira, Mortadella Sandwiches and Pão na chapa to name just a few. We can say with certainty that Brazilian food is delicious and that we highly recommend eating as many local bites as you possibly can when you visit Brazil.
Complete Brazilian Travel Guide Playlist:
A) Pão na chapa - Brazilian breakfast in Sao Paulo, Brazil
B) Churrascaria: Churrasco style Brazilian meat buffet in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
C) Massive Mortadella Sandwich at Mercado Municipal in Sao Paulo, Brazil
D) Brigadeiro: Brazilian desserts at Confeitaria Colombo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
E) Pão de queijo: Eating our favorite Brazilian cheese bread in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
F) Feijoada Brasileira: Delicious Brazilian Feijoada stew with beans, meat and rice in Rio de Janeiro
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Venha juntar-se enquanto exploramos a culinária brasileira com amostras de restaurantes locais deliciosos tanto no Rio de Janeiro quanto em São Paulo. Nossa compilação do Guia de alimentos do Brasil mostra-nos amostras de coisas como o Brigadeiro, o Pão de queijo, o buffet de carnes Churrasco, Feijoada Brasileira, Mortadella Sandwiches e Pão na chapa para citar apenas alguns. Podemos dizer com certeza que a comida brasileira é deliciosa e recomendamos que coma tantas picadas locais como possivelmente quando você visitar o Brasil.
Lista completa de reprodução do Guia Brasileiro de Viagens:
A) Brigadeiro: Sobremesas brasileiras na Confeitaria Colombo no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
B) Pão de queijo: comer nosso pão de queijo brasileiro favorito no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
C) Churrascaria: buffet de carne no estilo churrasco no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
D) Feijoada Brasileira: Delicioso Feijoada Brasileira Ensopado com feijão, carne e arroz no Rio de Janeiro
E) Massive Mortadella Sandwich no Mercado Municipal em São Paulo, Brasil
F) Pão na chapa - Pequeno-almoço brasileiro em São Paulo, Brasil
Compilação do Guia de Alimentação do Brasil - Introdução à Culinária Brasileira:
Vídeos de viagem e comida em torno do Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo, Brasil.
Únase mientras exploramos la cocina brasileña probando deliciosas comidas locales tanto en Río de Janeiro como en São Paulo. Nuestra Compilación de la Guía de Alimentos de Brasil nos muestra muestras como Brigadeiro, Pão de queijo, buffet de carne Churrasco, Feijoada Brasileira, Mortadella Sandwiches y Pão na chapa, por nombrar solo algunos. Podemos decir con certeza que la comida brasileña es deliciosa y que recomendamos comer tantos bocados locales como sea posible cuando visite Brasil.
Lista de reproducción completa de la guía de viaje brasileña:
A) Brigadeiro: postres brasileños en Confeitaria Colombo en Río de Janeiro, Brasil
B) Pão de queijo: comer nuestro pan de queso brasileño favorito en Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
C) Churrascaria: buffet de carne brasileña estilo Churrasco en Río de Janeiro, Brasil
D) Feijoada Brasileira: Delicioso guiso brasileño de feijoada con frijoles, carne y arroz en Río de Janeiro
E) Sándwich de mortadela masiva en el Mercado Municipal en Sao Paulo, Brasil
F) Pão na chapa - Desayuno brasileño en Sao Paulo, Brasil
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