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Women’s rugby team of Sport Club do Porto is the European champion
Porto team took the upper hand beating the Italians from Sabbie Mobili in the final by 8-5.
Parque da Cidade took in thousands of pilgrims for “Dias na Diocese”
Thousands of young people preparing for World Youth Day participated in the service presided by the Porto bishop, D. Manuel Linda.
“Desporto no Bairro” has grown steadily and is already an example to the country
After the success registered in the three previous years (2020, 2021 and 2022), “Desporto no Bairro” is back this year with a renovated sense of social responsibility and sportsmanship.
Walking is beneficial and makes the city more attractive
Porto has been elected as the third best city in Europe to be explored on foot, according to the British blog Preply.
Linha Retoma Desporto supports 53 city clubs
The Linha Retoma Desporto is launched by the third year in a row by Porto City Hall, through the Ágora, and is reinforcing the number of sports entities that will benefit from the municipal incentive, with the increase of the total allocated support.
Terminal Intermodal de Campanhã celebrates one year of activity with more than five million users
Last Thursday, the Terminal Intermodal de Campanhã (TIC) celebrates its first year of activity with more than five million passengers (from July 2022 until July 2023), distributed between 630 schedules, 11 operators, and 58 final destinations.
Pipe organs from the churches of Porto are up for the title of World Cultural Heritage
Porto City Hall will move forward, joined by UNESCO, with an application for World Culture Heritage to the pipe organs of the churches of the city. They are a set of instruments, spread among many temples, of great complexity and with an impressive artistic and constructive beauty.
Rede 20 has been created to make public spaces available for everyone
The Municipality of Porto will implement a network of priority routes for soft mobility options that will cover about 30 kilometres of streets. In many cases, it will establish a maximum speed of 20km/hour for vehicles circulating, and the priority for pedestrians and soft mobility options, in a concept of shared public space.
Teams from Porto Ambiente take on more than 12.600 environmental awareness campaigns
Established in 2019, Porto Ambiente’s environmental awareness pioneering service, with teams which identify infringements related to the violation of the rules of deposition and conditioning of waste, ditching waste on public roads, amongst others, has already taken on, since its foundation and up until now, more than 12.600 campaigns, including six thousand visits to commercial establishments in the city.
Porto Pianofest will return in August with some news
Stars of American Ballet, Zsolt Bognar, and Lara Downes, considered the “Classical Woman of the Year” in 2022 by Performance Today, are some of the names that are booked for the concerts and dynamics of the 8th edition of the Porto Pianofest, which will take place from the 1st to the 9th of August.