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Portugal's second-biggest city, Porto has a brawny beauty all its own. Built on granite bluffs above the Rio Douro, its heart is a tangle of World Heritage-listed lanes tumbling steeply down to a medieval waterfront. It's hard not to be wooed by Porto's atmospheric riverside, dotted with old port-wine boats, pinched lanes and shadowy archways.
Fast Facts
Population
264,000
Currency
Name: Euro
Code: EUR
Symbol: €
Electrical Plugs
220V 50Hz
Languages Spoken
Official: Portuguese
Time Zones
GMT/UTC +0 (winter), +1 (summer)
Country Dialing Code
+351
Weights & Measures
Metric
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