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A SHORT WALK
PORTO’S

CATHEDRAL DISTRICT

EXPERIENCE Porto Distance 1.5 km (1 mile) Nearest station the city’s best jewellers RUA D AS FLORES
São Bento metro Time 15 minutes
Behind the traditional
shop-fronts in the Rua
Archaeological excavations show that Penaventosa
das Flores are some of
Hill, now the site of Porto’s cathedral, or Sé, was
inhabited as early as 3,000 years ago. Take a stroll
around this historic area, which, in its elevated
position, provides an excellent orien tation point and goldsmiths.
while you explore the rest of the city. Pause halfway
at the broad Avenida de Vímara Peres, named after
the military hero who expelled the Moors from the R . M O U Z I N H O D. S I LV E I R A
city in AD 868, which sweeps south past the Barredo’s
steep alleys and stairways. The view to the north is
towards the extraordinarily embellished São Bento
AV E N I DA D O M A F O N S O H E N R I Q U E S
station and the busy commercial heart of the city.

R U A E S C U R A

TERREIR O C A LÇ A DA D E VA N D O M A
D A S É R U A S A R A I VA D E C A R VA L H O
Gothic cloister of Porto’s
Sé, adorned with blue-
and-white azulejos

The broad open Terreiro da Sé R U A D E D O M H U G O
offers a wonderful panorama of
the city. In one corner stands a
stone pillory (pelhourino).
Although imposing and perhaps a
little forbidding from the outside,
inside Porto’s Sé contains many Paço Episcopal
small-scale treasures(p236). AV. D E V I M A R A P E R E S

The Casa-Museu Guerra Junqueiro
is a charming museum in a house that
once belonged to the 19th-century
poet (p236).
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