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Next Monday, 25th January, the pedestrian walkway, in Rua Formosa, will be temporarily suspended to remove the metallic passageway that is placed alongside building’s facade. This endeavour will take three days to complete.

Rua de José Falcão, which had been blocked to traffic due to a water pipe breakage and pavement slide, caused by extreme weather conditions, reopened to traffic circulation, as the Águas do Porto team concluded the works. The traffic lane had collapsed overnight, this Thursday, and the Municipal Civil Protection, the Municipal Police and the Porto Firefighter Battalion were on site to attend to the situation.

It is a best virtual tour that will provide visitors with the chance to get to know the fascinating 500 million years of History and treasures that are just a click away: the “Museu da Farmácia do Porto” virtually “opens doors” and get to know the museum collections and the 97 items made available to this virtual visit”, as informed by the Museum Administration in a press release.

As the pandemic infection rates accelerate, municipal outdoor sports equipment are also closed and access is restricted; namely, Ramalde Skate Park and the athletics track of the Ramalde Sports Park/Inatel.

The latest weather forecast warns on the worsening of weather conditions, starting this Thursdays, in the city of Porto, with strong wind, sea disturbance and heavy precipitations.

The Futebol Clube do Porto is implementing the ColorADD code system to enable those whose ability to see colour or differences in colour is decreased to have a better experience when in the stadium, visiting or watching a football game. This is the first stadium in the world to implement this code system. It is estimated that 350 million people around the world are Colorblind.

Rivoli is inviting everyone to help blow out the birthday cake candles, in the 2021 online birthday party, which stretches from 20th January to 24th January. Celebrating an anniversary, especially the 89th anniversary of the city of Porto’s icon Rivoli Theatre is the reassurance that culture lingers and helps people thrive.

Porto City Hall determined, yesterday evening, 19th January, the reimposing of lockdown measures to help prevent the outbreak of the Covid-19. The sharp increase in Covid-19 infections led to the prohibition to public agglomerations in public space.

João Gama, a full professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto and researcher at INESC TEC, was recently named fellow of IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering, with its corporate office in New York City. João Gama was named for “his contributions regarding knowledge extraction techniques from continuous data flows”.

The latest confinement requires new restrictions to comply with, in order to help stop the dissemination of Covid-19. Still, culture will be a click away to make a difference in lockdown days. As such, Coliseu Porto Ageas and São João National Theatre will deliver live streaming sessions of their shows.