Square, Plaza sights in Porto
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Avenida dos Aliados
With bulging, Beaux Arts facades and capped by the Câmara Municipal (City Hall), the short but grand Avenida dos Aliados may not be exactly Parisian, but it certainly recalls grand Parisian imitators like Buenos Aires and Budapest. Its central plaza has been recently repaved and spiffed up, and if it weren't for all the buses (this is the city's transport hub) and it would be a fine place to linger.
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Praça da Ribeira
Down by the river, narrow streets open out onto Praça da Ribeira, which - with its river views and austerely grand, tiled townhouses - is shorthand for Porto itself. From here you have fine views of both the port-wine lodges across the river as well as the monumental, double-decker Ponte de Dom Luís I.
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Praça da Batalha
At its southern end, Rua Santa Catarina opens out onto the lovely, eclectic Praça da Batalha. It's anchored at one end by the Igreja de Santo Ildefonso and at the other by the lavishly romantic Teatro Nacional São João.
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