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The Great Wine Capitals Global Network, announced yesterday the winners of the Best of Wine Tourism 2017 awards, during the general assembly held this week in Porto, under the theme Wine and Nature.

Tourism in Porto and in the North ever more attracting not only to tourists but to the international press as well.

The second session of the conference-debate cycle dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Avenue of the City takes place today at 7.00 p.m. at Café Rivoli Concert Hall.

The third edition of Porto/Post/Doc - International Film Festival is back in Porto from November 26 to December 4, at the Teatro Rivoli, Cinema Passos Manuel and Maus Hábitos.

Porto hosts the General Assembly of the Great Wine Capitals Global Network, which currently comprises nine cities and their respective wine regions.

Kenyans Samuel Mwaniki and Loice Kiptoo won today the 13th Porto Marathon, the most important event of its kind in Portugal. Portuguese athlete José Moreira rounded off the podium finishing third, while female athletes Catarina Ribeiro and Filomena Costa came in second and third places.

Large attendance last night at The Grand Auditorium Manoel de Oliveira to listen to Jem Finer, founding musician of The Pogues, in another session of the Forum of the Future.

Rivoli was crowded again yesterday, in the late afternoon session of the Forum of the Future, to listen to Dominique Wolton, founder and director of the National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris and Hermes magazine.

The 2017 edition of EuBea Festival, also known as the "Oscars" of the events, will be held in Porto in November 2017.

Airbnb website announced the top 5 destinations that are "on watch" by American tourists. Increasingly choosing Europe for traveling, North Americans prefer Porto to Milan, Lyon, Budapest and Dublin.