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Air Transat winter timetable also includes Porto Airport
The Canadian airline Air Transat announced its winter schedule operations, which will start on 1st November. The Canadian airliner will continue to operate the Toronto-Porto route, resumed in the end of July, for the winter timetable.
"Noites do Palácio" are remarkable from every angle
The Black Mamba were as remarkable as you can imagine on stage during the "Noites do Palácio" initiative. This was the second concert included in the programme. Check it out.
Porta-Jazz concert on 9 August, 7pm: be there!
The Porta-Jazz new initiative themed "Quintal Porta-Jazz", where the stage is brought outside, features one last concert, on 9th August, at 7pm.
Sports, traditional games, street entertainment, you name it, Porto has it all for the weekends! Come check out!
No one can deny that Porto is a city that translates "joyful atmosphere" the weekend over. As usual, and like these past Saturdays and Sundays in town, on 2nd August, let's go all out to enjoy sports, traditional games and street entertainment, especially arranged by the Municipality or Porto and partners for the delight of passers-by and strollers at the Invicta.
Cultura em Expansão is back in September with new access rules
The "Cultura em Expansão" is back this September, with a new calendar of activities that features 38 performances till the end of the year. Also, there are new rules to comply with.
Porto is on its way to being a bike friendly city
The Municipality of Porto wants to develop another 35km of cycle routes in the city to reach 50km of bike paths by the end of 2020. Currently, the network of cycleway is circa 15km, but the goal is to extend to another 35km to meet the express aim of regaining the public space as announced by the Mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira, in the end of May.
French Invasions remains found in Porto Historic centre
The restoration works in a building located at the Rua de S. Miguel enabled the finding of 13 skeletons of French soldiers, who would be part of the Soult army, more than 200 years ago, during the Napoleonic Invasions.
Quinta do Covelo will have a 3800 sq. m outdoor playground for dogs
The building of the dog playground at Quinta do Covelo kicks off on 3rd August. The dog park equipment will have two different areas, amounting to approximately 3800 sq. m, one for large breed dogs and another one for small breed dogs.
In the White City, by Alain Tanner, at Campo Alegre
The film "In the White City", by Swiss director Alain Tanner, premieres on 31st July, at the cinema studio of Theatre Campo Alegre. Sessions are available at 6.30pm.
"Are you the missing piece?" If you are, maybe BLIP is your next workplace. They are hiring
Blip is currently hiring. There are 70 open vacancies that can lead you to finding a job at this Portuguese Porto-based technological company that is "a top of the edge software engineering company".