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Buy 20 euros and get an immediate 2-euro discount. The municipal programme to boost the business activities in Porto already granted circa 117 thousand euros discounts in local and traditional trade in the city. This measure provides for a 2-euro discount for each 20-euro buy in local stores that have adhered to the municipal support programme. The measure is in place until 30 July.

Local Accommodation (AL) in Porto will rely on the services of a mediator to assist and guide the stakeholders in the sector, namely residents, facility managers, tourists and apartment complex managers. The proposal was presented by the councillor for Economy, Tourism, and Trade, Ricardo Valente, during the Executive Meeting held yesterday, 28 June and it was approved by a majority. The CDU party abstained.

The Casa da Música Manoel de Oliveira officially launched the book “Ditos e Escritos”, featuring study documents and notes by the renowned Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, on 16 June, at Casa do Cinema, in Serralves. This will be the first of many publications that that institution intends to launch to disseminate the "extensive acquis” of the filmmaker, who passed away in 2015, at the age of 106.

July is just around the corner, and with it, three amazing Saturdays that offer jazz lovers the opportunity to go back to amazing outings to the sound of swing and blue notes, polyrhythms and improvisation. This will also be the time to celebrate 30 years of the Jazz in the Park programme.

Porto Circus Festival aka Trengo is back from 28 June until 4 July. This edition will take ten shows to the Parque do Covelo and the Theatre Rivoli. The festival is organised by the company Erva Daninha, jointly with Ágora – Cultura e Desporto.

Two years after the last event, the Doctoral Congress is back from 28 to 29 June, in a virtual format. The event is organised by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP).

The paving of the Rua de Álvares Cabral and the surrounding areas, namely the Rua de Sacadura Cabral and the intersection with Rua de Aníbal Cunha, Largo do Priorado and the Rua da Cedofeita have been completed. The endeavour was carried out by the municipal company Gestão e Obras do Porto – GO Porto, and represented a municipal investment of circa 425 thousand euros.

The “Extensão do Douro”, a station of the Museu da Cidade in Porto, opened doors on 25 June. This reopening was marked with the inauguration of the exhibition “Douro: Terra e Atmosfera”, and was attended by the Mayor of Porto, Rui Moreira. It can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday, between 10 am and 5.30 pm.

Figure the following: a couple United by the circus arts that invites audiences to enter the realm of… Circus! This couple, Victor and Kati, literally lie on the floor, they scream for human life, from tears to laughter, happy, sad … Pour le meilleur et pour le pire (For better or for worse). In-person performances, on 30 June, at the Rivoli, at 7.30 pm; online, on 2 and 3 July (available as of 5 pm, on 2 July).

The Portuguese Photography Centre marks its 20th anniversary, located at the former Prison and Court of Appeal of Porto with the exhibition themed “A Herança do Lugar", which will be on display between 25 June until 7 November, at the room Aurélio da Paz dos Reis.