Praça da Ribeira
Porto's riverside district opens out on to the Douro here, looking across to the wine lodges of Gaia and the curving double-decker ironwork of the Dom Luis I bridge. To the east, the lanes of the Ribeira neighborhood run behind the row of narrow-fronted medieval townhouses. To the west are grey stone aches of grander buildings constructed during an 18th-century remodeling. Everywhere, the facades are enlivened with yellow, red and white paintwork or blue azulejo tiles. The northern side is filled with a three-story-high fountain built in the 1780s. Today, the square is filled with cafe terraces and is a hub of Porto's tourism, but it's not hard to imagine noisy fish trading and bustling quayside commerce that for centuries took place here.
Porto's riverside district opens out on to the Douro here, looking across to the wine lodges of Gaia and the curving double-decker ironwork of the Dom Luis I bridge. To the east, the lanes of the Ribeira neighborhood run behind the row of narrow-fronted medieval townhouses. To the west are grey stone aches of grander buildings constructed during an 18th-century remodeling. Everywhere, the facades are enlivened with yellow, red and white paintwork or blue azulejo tiles. The northern side is filled with a three-story-high fountain built in the 1780s. Today, the square is filled with cafe terraces and is a hub of Porto's tourism, but it's not hard to imagine noisy fish trading and bustling quayside commerce that for centuries took place here.
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