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Porto is poised as an emerging-market city, internationally recognized as one of the most investment-friendly cities and one of the best places to live in Europe.

Porto is back as a key spot to the 2017 Red Bull Air Race calendar, on 02-03 September. Porto stop will mark the final circuit over water this 2017 season, and the route over the River Douro is likely to be challenging.

The National Ballet Company features iTMOI- in The Mind of Igor, with choreography by Akram Khan, at Rivoli, March 9 and 10, at 9:30 pm.

In 2017, the Awards ceremony will take place in Porto on the 27th of May, under the theme ""Celebrating Creative Excellence". It will be preceded by a string of enthralling events.

Porto Airport was voted the best in Europe in the category of five to 15 million passengers and the third best in the category of more than two million passengers by Airports Council International.

The City Hall Council Chambers will be the stage for the opening concert of this International Festival, Monday 6th March at 7 pm.

Through dance and singing, Dorothea Munyaneza recalls the memory of places she loved and people who are no more, due to tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi peoples, which have led to a civil war in Rwanda in 1994.

The city of Porto will host Porto World Battle (PWB), from March 17th to 19th, at MXM Art Centre. This is an event that brings together the best dancers from all over the world to the European Best Destination 2017.

Municipal Theatre of Porto showcases this weekend, March 3 and 4, the shows by Dorothée Munyaneza, from Rwanda, and Mithkal Alzghair, from Syria, under Focus Displacements main theme.

The city of Porto provided an opportunity to take stock of the development of civil protection structures, by organising a debate on this years's topic: "Civil Protection against disasters", at the Porto Innovation Hub facilities.