News Porto.

The nice sunny weather is back in town and so are the open air training activities. Brace yourselves, gear up and head to Palácio de Cristal, to Parque Oriental, to Pasteleira Park or to the City Park.

Porto Book Fair is back to the Gardens of Palácio de Cristal, from 28th August to 13th September. The Fair registered 68 applications of interest, which means that over 80 publishing entities, namely publishers, booksellers, distributors and used bookstores will participate in the fair, totalling 120 stands.

Street celebrations are cancelled, so this year the way to party is staying at home, with all the fun and merriment that such moments can also bring; to brighten moods all night long, Rádio Festival ensures a special broadcasting that will go from the early morning of the 23rd June till the first light of day of the 24th June.

Starting tomorrow, 20th June, there will be sixteen streets in Porto Downtown area and Porto Historic centre that will be transformed into temporary pedestrian areas, between 8am on Saturdays and 8pm on Sundays. Alongside the municipal plan to regain public space, there is a pilot project of 88 areas for the sharing of soft mobility means of transport.

In the first 15 days of June alone, over 1200 people were tested in Porto. This information was indicated to Porto.pt by ARS Norte, which demonstrates that the fact that there are no new positive Covid-19 cases in Porto is not the result of the shortage of test performing but that health authorities, hospitals, institutions the Municipality and mostly citizens were able to stop the outbreak of the pandemic, for the time being, by means of active control measures.

This weekend don't miss the double sessions of films "That Obscure Object of Desire" and "The Exterminating Angel", on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. Buñuel worked in France, Mexico and Spain. When he died, at age 83, his obituary in The New York Times mentioned the words "iconoclast, moralist, and revolutionary".

A vertical vegetable garden is a simple way to enhance growing space, especially if you don't have a garden or a patio. It helps reduce insect problems, while beautifying verandas.

Find out what markets and fairs you can visit this weekend and support local trade, always complying with pandemic control measures.The Municipality of Porto will monitor markets and fairs to make sure pandemic control rules are in place and to help minimize contagion.

With no official São João celebrations, everyone can still have their own celebration; this is what the Municipality of Porto enhanced in a Mupi campaign to raise awareness on the need to comply with social distancing measures and not giving in to tackling the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Porto has been mostly struck by the pandemic at the level of micro companies, hotel and tourism sectors and national investors. Conversely, big companies, the Tech sector and international investors indicate slight losses. These are the main conclusions of a study carried out by the Municipality of Porto, through InvestPorto, the attraction of investment office, which has analysed the effects of the pandemic in the city's strategic business companies.