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The winners of the 19th edition of the João de Almada Award, created by Porto City Hall to encourage and promote the rehabilitation of the city’s architectural heritage, awarding every two years the best examples of good practice in this area, have already been chosen.

Under the motto “500 anos da Rua das Flores”, 24 electricity distribution boxes greet the new year with new colours.

“Architecture ” is part of a set of 22 videos that the city of Porto is launching to promote and value the city.

The Porto Half Marathon will once again run along Douro’s riverbanks on 18th of September.

In the football match between Sport Comércio e Salgueiros and Clube Desportivo de Gouveia, played at Complexo Desportivo de Campanhã, the stars of the game were the four-legged friends.

A team of researchers from the Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (Institute for Research and Innovation in Health) (i3S) at the University of Porto found in cell-to-cell communication a way to stop the progression of pancreatic cancer.

The former Central Shopping, between Santos Pousada Street and Fernão de Magalhães Avenue, is soon becoming Porto Business Plaza, the new business center in Bonfim, which will employ 3500 people.

Teatro Rivoli will celebrate nine decades of culture for six days, with nine projects, around 90 artists and nine art forms.

There will be music, birthday cake and 116 books to offer to the first visitors of the day.

The 14 modules of the supporting wall of the Palácio de Cristal Gaeden have a renewed face, exhibiting the new works selected as part of the Programa de Arte Urbana.