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Access to the Garden of Passeio das Virtudes is conditioned as long as the contingency situation is in effect, to discourage people from gathering in that public site, amid the ongoing pandemic. Porto City Hall put in place temporary railings in that garden, and placed posters with information regarding sanitary recommendations that visitors must comply with: the use of face masks or visor, whenever necessary; hand sanitation with appropriate alcohol gel; social distancing of two metres;...

This year's celebration of the European Heritage Days is marked at the Portuguese Photography Centre with no less than four guided tours to the former Prison Building and Court of Appeal of Porto, which was acknowledged as a national monument since 2017.

The Pharmacy Museum in Porto celebrates one century of Agatha Christie's debut as a mystery writer and 130 years of her birth, on 17th September, with two sessions at 4.15pm and 5pm.

The closing performances of Trengolas are now on 25th and 26th September, as the sessions of the 18th and 19th were postponed. "Por um Fio" ["By a string", free translation], jointly created and performed by Daniel Seabra and Margarida Montenÿ, will put both acrobats in a continuous search for equilibrium between two bodies, using a lose string of two ends at 7 metres high.

Porto City Hall, via Ágora - Cultura e Desporto, has organised vibrant getaways in town, this summer, and this 13th September is no exception. The programme includes sports activities, such as fencing, pat cycles, and also street entertainment with visits by clowns, Earth Beings and strange cooks.

The masterpieces of Akira Kurosawa, one of the most acknowledged Japanese filmmakers in the West, are on display at Campo Alegre Municipal Theatre, from 17th September till 30th October. Seven films, in digital restored copies, five of which were never presented in a movie theatre in Portugal, will be screened at Porto Municipal Theatre - Campo Alegre.

The "Noites no Pátio" [something like "Evenings in the yard"], at the Museum of the UP are on for a second edition, this month of September. Casa Comum of the University of Porto, which organises this initiative, has prepared an entire month of September (as in July), with an agenda to meet all tastes and to content all age groups, starting this 9th September.

The Municipality of Porto just launched the project "Study in Porto". The main goal is to centralize in one online platform bountiful information where new students in town can learn things about the city and better adjust and adapt to a new reality both as a student and someone from Porto.

Expect no less than a vibrant getaway in Porto, on 6th September that includes sports activities, such as fencing, pat cycles, and also street entertainment with visits by clowns and puppet shows, inline skates and minigolf, organised by Ágora, Porto City Hall municipal Company, in line with the health measures issued by the DGS.

Sunday, 6th September, is also the day to enjoy circus arts at Porto Book Fair, under the Trengolas initiative, and that will be a barrel of fun. Starting at 5pm, the "Trengos à Solta" of the Companhia Erva Daninha, make sure that everyone can have a laugh near the "Ilha", the structure inside the lake, next to Super Bock - Pavilhão Rosa Mota, which is prepared to host literature events, as well.