The Church of Saint Ildefonso was built between 1709 and 1739 and displays a beautiful facade lined with Jorge Colaço tiles, depicting scenes from the life of Saint Ildefonso and Eucharist allegories. Inside the church, there ...
The Igreja de S. Francisco de Assis (Church of St. Francis of Assisi), commonly known as Igreja de S. Francisco (St. Francis Church), is located in the historic centre of Porto. It is the most important representative of the ...
The Church of São Martinho of Cedofeita started as a building dating back perhaps to the Visigoth period and is also known as Church Românica of Cedofeita. It is thought to be the oldest church in Porto. It was rebuilt in ...
The Church of S. Nicolau is very representative of the city’s religious architecture of the late eighteenth century. It was built in 1758 after a fire destroyed an older medieval church. The façade is Neoclassical with ...
The parrish of Miragaia used to be a community of fishermen, so it is not surprising that the church is named after their patron saint, the fisherman São Pedro (Saint Peter). A church has stood in this location since the ...
Built between 1874 and 1894 on a relatively elevated area, the Bonfim Church features a façade flanked by two forty-two metre high bell towers. It is a church without much ornamentation on the outside, which is simple, but ...
The façade of this church from the seventeenth century is very similar to the Church of São Lourenço. Inside, it is worth highlighting the main altarpiece, a beautiful Rococo work, and the tiles that represent the life of ...
The Church of Santo António dos Congregados is located just outside the metro and train station of St. Bento. It dates to the late seventeenth century using an earlier chapel from 1662 that was to be the seat of the Confraria ...
It is for brave, but worth it- after climbing the about 240 steps up to 2 balconies, on top of the tower, you can enjoy a panoramic 360 ° views of the city and the Douro River. So, find your rhythm, but do not miss this. For ...
The Church of the Grilos – or São Lourenço – began construction in the sixteenth century and features a monumental façade. It was built by the Jesuits in a Mannerist Baroque style. The coat of arms of Frei Luís ...
The Monastery of Serra do Pilar, in Gaia has been a Cultural Heritage of Humanity site since 1996 and provides an unequalled view of the city of Porto. Its construction began in 1538 and it was completed in 1670. It housed ...
The Museum of Anatomy of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto was founded in 1825. It has a significant collection of hundreds of anatomic pieces – some of them are more than a hundred years old – ...
