How Forbes and The Telegraph are drawing inspiration from the city of Porto

Forbes, the American business magazine, well known for its lists and rankings, features Porto as "the new hot destination in Portugal".

The pick of Forbes's favourite places and sites in Porto are provided by Elva Ramirez, former Wall Street Journal reporter and video producer. A new roadmap reveals how Porto is a bold city worthy of the most demanding of visitors.

"Food, drink, travel and the business of living well" is all and much more visitors can find in the destination Porto.

"One of Europe's most colorful cities", as read in the magazine article, where "picture-ready scenes" wait "at every turn, from walls covered in elaborately painted tiles to some of the most memorable seafood dishes in Europe".

That said, Forbes introduces readers to the "Old World elegance", with the recently renovated hotel Infante Sagres, also introducing the chicest and newest official Vogue destination, Vogue Café Porto, set inside the Infante Sagres, jointly conceived with Condé Nast International Restaurants.

The city's major attractions, the painted ceramic tiles or azulejos and the riverside, add up to the statement that Porto is the next big (you have read well) city to visit.

A majestic set of tiles can be a memorable event to one's visit to Porto in the São Bento train Station and on several churches, such as Igreja do Carmo.

The Lello Bookstore, world famous for having inspired writer J.K. Rowling on the "Harry Potter" books, and a fine example on how fiction imitates life.

When in Porto, have a taste of "the city's spirit of choice": "Port, of course".

Porto is high on style, so to speak (or should we say, write?) as the national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London and described by the BBC as "one of the world's great titles", The Telegraph reviews "The best things to do in Porto".

Porto is indeed the destination of mass appeal and it can make you go around places to discover the simplest and nicest pleasures in a city.

The Telegraph explains that Porto is "a city for pottering, a place for placidly passing the time" and if you feel up to the task, "you'll find little treats and surprises on almost every street: a tiled wall mural here, a pavement market there".

The diamond point of the city's roadmap is that "as in life, many of the best things to do in Porto are free"; tiled churches, street buildings and the train station to visit and to admire, memorable bookstores like Livraria Chaminé de Mota, technically a shop, but feeling more like a private museum, featuring "hundreds of thousands of books represent a lifetime of collecting".

The city's open-air market, the neoclassical Bolhão Market, built in 1850, is undergoing renovation work and all the stall sellers are currently housed in a nearby mall, at the Shopping Centre La Vie, a few steps up the street (literally), but all the same sellers, "fishmongers and grocers, the bakers and butchers, the florists and haberdashers" are still there waiting to do "what they've always done: sell, sell, sell".

Tradition, arts and culture and nature. If you are a "botanical breather", The Telegraph urges you to visit the Jardins do Palácio de Cristal, drift around the Romantic-inspired gardens, designed by the 19th-century landscape architect Émile David.

When there, forget not to pay a visit to the amazing Almeida Garrett Municipal Library and the Galeria Municipal do Porto, where you'll most certainly find an interesting exhibition or a cultural event.

Whatever season you visit Porto, it is certain that you will connect to this visionary and traditional city. Come. Be inspired.