Society

Porto City Hall invested circa 150 thousand euros and now Porto has a new and modern skatepark, at Ramalde Sports Compex. It is already open for business as of 24th November.

Another airliner is to strengthen its flight operations in Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport; Royal Air Maroc (RAM) will open transcontinental flights to the Porto-Beijing route, with a stopover in Casablanca, starting 16 January 2020.

The conference themed "Black Box. Stories of the future" is presented on 4th December, at Rivoli, with sessions starting at 5pm, 8pm, 9.30pm and 11pm. This event is held in the scope of Porto Design Biennale and approaches the development of digital culture in design, curated by Isa Clara Neves and Jorge Figueira.

Expedia Trends in Travel 2020 just released its new list of the best vacation spots based on flight demand and Porto is spotlighted as the "place to go" in Portugal.

"Porto (Portugal) tackled energy poverty directly by renovating public buildings to make them more energy efficient and by installing renewable heating and cooling facilities and solar hot water systems, resulting in annual energy savings of 286 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per square metre (m2)", as reported by REN21, the only global renewable energy community of actors from science, governments, NGOs and industry.

UNESCO published the Culture|2030 Indicators, on 19th November 2019. This announcement was made during the Forum of Ministers of Culture at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France.

Enjoy the unique opportunity to view the most outstanding and distinctive performances from a different movie era, with the film cycle "Salão Piolho", in Porto from 12th to 15th December. Entrance is free.

Porto Planetarium - Living Science Centre celebrates 21 years and to mark this date it set up a special activity: the screening of an immersive own production film "Vítor e Sofia vão à Lua", ["Victor and Sophia go to the Moon", free translation]. Entrance is free.

"I look to my school in Gando and I'm thinking "uau", what a great privilege I had to be able, with my people, to create a structure that allows the kids to stay in school, which is well ventilated and where they can stay all day and learn. It's inspiring!", stated Francis Kéré to Porto.

Nothing better than ending 2019 with Marta Ren and the Matosinhos Jazz Orchestra at Aliados, in Porto, featuring the "Stop, Look, Listen" album, by Marta Ren, released in 2016 by the Italian Record Kicks, a sort of musical ID of this singer from Porto, with soul and funk vibes. the date: on 28th December. Access is free.