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Porta-Jazz Festival offers 30 concerts of Jazz Porto flavour in December

From 1 to 9 December, the city of Porto hosts the Porta-Jazz Festival, featuring 30 concerts, including premieres and unique artistic partnerships. There will be school meetings, workshops and jam sessions to promote exchanges and networking between Jazz musicians.

Fair weather brings Flea Market to Porto in the open

The second-hand goods monthly market, which is held in several places in Porto for ten years now, takes place outdoors in Porto on 17 November.

Pláka Collectives 2018 last edition registration ends on 15 November

Registrations for the last 2018 Pláka Collectives programme - To School out of School- closes next Thursday, on 15th November.

The Forum of the Future concluded on 10th November but the city is already preparing the 2019 "Voyage"

The 500 years of the circumnavigation and the appropriation of identity are some of the key topics for the next edition of the Forum of the Future, an event the city of Porto takes pride in and "we are rolling our sleeves up and set to work", Rui Moreira stated and challenged audiences to think about next year's topic, which, no doubt, "will move hearts and affections, guilt feelings, and varied other feelings".

Best of Wine Tourism 2019 awards excellence of Portuguese Northern Wine growing region

Porto and the wine-growing area of Douro achieved international recognition, once more, at the Best of Wine Tourism 2019. The House of Sandeman Hostel & Suites won the Best Accommodation, in an event aimed at awarding enotourism excellence in different categories.

The finishing touch to something that is already good, aka The Forum of the Future

Saving the best for last when talking about The Forum of the Future in Porto is not accurate at all; In fact, these last days are the icing on the cake, with proposals that will literally satisfy all types of audiences.

Conference Cycle themed "Do Estranho" speaks to us about our times

Porto Municipal Theatre (TPM) and the Universidade Lusófona of Porto further the conference cycle on the topic "Do Estranho" [on the Strange], whit the aim of assessing the character of the unusual or the odd in the framework of contemporaneity.

Rui Moreira, the man who has changed the political landscape in Porto, shares his example in Madrid

The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Party is gathered in Madrid, Spain, in the context of the 39th ALDE Party Congress. The Mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira, the outsider, as The New York Times has stated, is in the Spanish capital by invitation of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, to take part in the congress as independent.In Madrid, Rui Moreira will participate in work sessions and bilateral meetings with Bart Sommers, President of ALDE Group, and Albert...

Euroknitters visit Porto City Hall to talk about the unity of Europe

Teachers and students of the Euroknitters project have visited Porto City Hall to present their project: the strengthening of unity within the European Union. This group includes different nationalities, such as Spain, Estonia, Greece, Italy and Portugal, from the School Group of Cerco do Porto, the host institution in Porto.

We don't just talk in Porto, we dig holes and plant trees

The objective of the FUTURO project was to plant more than 100 thousand trees in Porto Metropolitan Area (AMP) by 2021. That goal has already been fulfilled due to the strong commitment of all the municipalities in the Metropolitan Area of Porto.