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Trengolas will make you measure time in fun and joy till 26th September
The closing performances of Trengolas are now on 25th and 26th September, as the sessions of the 18th and 19th were postponed. "Por um Fio" ["By a string", free translation], jointly created and performed by Daniel Seabra and Margarida Montenÿ, will put both acrobats in a continuous search for equilibrium between two bodies, using a lose string of two ends at 7 metres high.
DjangoCon Europe 2020 takes the online format from Porto, where it will be held in person in 2021
The 12th edition of the DjangoCon Europe, one of the most relevant events for the web development applications community will be held online, on 18th and 19th September, streamed from Porto.
The extraordinary Porto Book Fair will honour Júlio Dinis in 2021
Rui Moreira announced, during the live broadcasting of the talk with Nuno Faria, for Radio Estação, that the next author to be honoured at Porto Book Fair, in 2021, will be Júlio Dinis, a nineteenth century writer of Porto, who died at the young age of 31 of tuberculosis, which is the reason why some of its works were published posthumously. He was also a poet, a playwright, and novelist, and the first great novelist of modern Portuguese middle-class society; although his novels are still...
Porto International beach rules the waves between 18th and 20th September
Praia International do Porto welcomes the top-notch surfers of Portugal, between 18th and 20th September to take part in the crucial second round of the Liga Meo Surf 2020, a qualifying stage for the National Championship, under the Renault Porto Pro, which is one of the highpoints of the Porto & Matosinhos Wave Series 2020, of the surf contest calendar.
The Treetop walk in Serralves celebrates its first anniversary! The view is still unbeatable!
The Treetop walk celebrated its first anniversary this 14th September. It all started like this: architects Carlos Castanheira and Álvaro Siza Vieira, held the promise to "bring to Serralves new and different dimensions of enjoyment with nature" and so the Treetop Walk project was set in Serralves Park and it was inaugurated one year ago. The view is still unbeatable!
Porto heritage tramway celebrates 150 years
It was 125 years ago that the first electrified lines started to operate in Porto, the first in the Iberian Peninsula, in the moment when the car that can be visited at the Tramway Museum in Porto, went up the Restauração Street in Porto, on 12th September 1895.
Porto Municipal Library cards grant free access to over seven thousand newspapers and magazines
If you are a registered reader of Porto Municipal Libraries know that you are granted free access to over seven thousand newspapers and magazines. We are talking over 7.400 national and international newspapers and magazines, namely Público, Jornal de Notícias, O Jogo, Vogue, The Washington Post and The Guardian.
Porto Book Fair 2020 concludes on 13th September: this might be the perfect reason to drop by the Gardens of Palácio de Cristal this weekend
This year, Porto Book fair was not all business as usual: amid a pandemic, the Municipality of Porto had to sort of reinvent the event (pun intended) and the city still got its most relevant literary festival. The Fair kicked off on 28th August and it concludes this weekend, on 13th September. See what you can still savour before it ends.
Fair warning: Porto pedestrian areas are sprinkled with fun and sports for the weekend. Only go if you can handle it!
Porto City Hall, via Ágora - Cultura e Desporto, has organised vibrant getaways in town, this summer, and this 13th September is no exception. The programme includes sports activities, such as fencing, pat cycles, and also street entertainment with visits by clowns, Earth Beings and strange cooks.
7 films by Akira Kurosawa on display at Campo Alegre Municipal Theatre
The masterpieces of Akira Kurosawa, one of the most acknowledged Japanese filmmakers in the West, are on display at Campo Alegre Municipal Theatre, from 17th September till 30th October. Seven films, in digital restored copies, five of which were never presented in a movie theatre in Portugal, will be screened at Porto Municipal Theatre - Campo Alegre.