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At noon, Saturday, July 1st, the second PianoPorto Marathon 2017 begins, jointly organised by Porto Music Conservatory and Porto City Hall. As Porto Music Conservatory reaches its 100th anniversary, 100 musicians will tickle the ivories 24 hours straight to celebrate the occasion.

The national competition will take place at Casa da Música, between 12.30 am and 6.30 pm. The ten startups on competition represent universities from all cross the country, and among them there will be 3 universities from Porto: iSociety, from Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering from University of Porto; Framie, from University of Porto; and Oko, from ISEP - Porto Engineering Polytechnic School.

The theatre company Mala Voadora, features experimental project "Showbusiness" starring 21 students from the Sales Techniques course from Escola de Comércio (Business School in English), Tuesday, 27 June and Wednesday, 28 June.

Porto has been unanimously voted to preside the Cité des Métiers International network for a period of three years at the Association's General Meeting Board.

For the first time, the Municipal Civil Protection registered less than fifty incidents, half of which minor events that were solved on site and only 25 people had to be transported to the hospital for monitoring and to avoid complications.

Concerts of São João are brought to a close with Marta Ren and Clã that will perform this evening in Aliados.

"If someday someone asks about me / Tell them I lived to love you". It was to the tune of Salvador Sobral's "Amar pelos Dois", this years' Eurovision Song Contest Winner that the firework display kicked off last night in Ribeira do Porto.

In accordance with tradition on the Day of São João, the Thirty-third Rabelo Boats Regatta fills the river of beautiful boats, starting at 3 pm, and organised by the Port Wine Brotherhood.

The festivities that started in May 25, end June 25 with the "rusgas", in which inhabitants of the seven parishes in Porto parade throughout the city dressed in a traditional costume and singing.

The "music of the World" show will gather thousands of people to celebrate São João in Ribeira of Porto, the historic town centre, featuring music genres that range from Pop to Rock music, Salsa, Tango or even Cancan, House and Dance music. At midnight, the traditional fire work display will get the party going in Porto.