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Porto will be hosting the European Super Cup in August 2020
Save this date: in August 2020, the city of Porto, Portugal will host the annual football match contested by the reigning champions of the two main European club competitions, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League.
Wax by Renaud Herbin at Porto Municipal Theatre- Campo Alegre in June
The show put together by Renaud Herbin, "Wax" can be interpreted as something that is undergoing transformation. The performance features its last performance of the 2017/2018 season at Porto Municipal Theatre, Café Teatro Campo Alegre, on 9 June 2018.
Professor of the Faculty of Architecture of Porto University leads Portuguese Representation at the Venice Biennale 2018
"Public Without Rhetoric" is the name of the selected project to represent Portugal in the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale. Nuno Brandão Costa, lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), together with Sérgio Mah offer a journey through the "Public Building" of Portuguese authorship. This project comprises 12 works "created at a time when Western Europe is faced with limits and possibilities and architecture mirrors its non-conformity by...
Cultural Walks take you to the most famous and traditional Jewellers in the city of Porto
The true image of the Portuguese jewellery is the motto to take this cultural journey and discover the most traditional "Jewels and Jewellers: a neoclassical and contemporary look, part II". This session starts at 3 pm at the intersection of Santa Catarina and 31 de Janeiro streets, next to the Reis e Filhos Jewellery shop and it will be guided by historian Isabel Andrade Silva.
In Spiritum end day features Bach's Cello Suites at the City Hall
After seven successful concerts, which began Saturday, 19th May, with attendees crowding in to experience classical music to nurture the spirit and enjoying Porto cultural heritage altogether, the In Spiritum Festival features two final concerts on 22 and 29 May. Guilhermina Suggia's Montagnana cello will be heard again in the context of the In Spiritum Porto Music Festival, during the two last concerts to be held at the City's Hall Main Hall at 9.30 pm.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 gives a public lecture at i3S on 25 May
Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001, will be in Porto to speak about his discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle. The British biochemist, Sir Paul Nurse, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 (jointly) will be in Porto, on 25 May, at the Health Research and Innovation Institute - I3S - to talk about cell cycle control related to cancer and underlying diseases studied at that institution. This lecture is entrance free and is scheduled to begin at...
The legacy of May 68 featured by Theatre Company Estrutura at Rivoli, on 25 and 26 May
Theatre Company Estrutura features the show "M'18", revisiting the legacy of May 68 at Rivoli, on 25 and 26 May. With this performance, Estrutura aims at assessing what this fundamental breakage meant and means at present, what memories do this "calling into question" bring, both to those who have experienced it and those who were born after the event.
In Spiritum Festival delivers unique concert venues and a vibrant atmosphere
In Spiritum - Porto Music Festival is delivering concerts in magnificent sites in the city of Porto, enabling attendees to both enjoying the musical moments and the cultural heritage.
International Conference in Porto to debate green infrastructure for cities
Sustainable cities, built on nature-based solutions is the topic of the IGICPORTO 2018 - The International Conference on Green Infrastructure, to be held in Porto on 24 and 25 May at Almeida Garrett Municipal Library.