Porto, Portugal’s northern city, is like the cooler older sister of its capital, Lisbon. A country’s second city is always cool, right? Manchester, anyone? I’d been to Porto once before, but this was ...

The home of port wine, Portugal’s enchanting second city also offers a winning blend of austere architecture and cutting-edge design, plus buzzy bars and beaches, just up the Douro river. World of ...

Do you have a day or two to explore Porto, Portugal? Here's a fun Travel Guide with Things To Do.

This seems to be the summer of Portugal. A small country hugging the west coast of Europe, Portugal always fell well below France, Spain, and Italy on my European adventure list. But in the past six ...

In this Porto travel guide, I’ll walk you through how to spend 3 days in Porto to experience as much of the city as you can. You’ll even have time to do a little day trip and explore a bit outside of ...

Oliver Balch, our resident expert, offers his top tips on the hottest places to eat and things to do this season. A famous cabaret and 'exotic parlour' from the 1980s, Pérola Negra club (Rua Gonçalo ...

Though it's the second-largest city in Portugal, Porto is still relatively small. The city covers about 16 square miles of land, with the Douro River running along its southern edge sandwiched between ...

Porto's local cuisine features lots of seafood (because of its seat along the Atlantic Ocean) accompanied by plenty of wine. Traditional dishes in Porto range from the Francesinha (a toasted meat, ...

When you have wine in your mouth, evaluate the flavours — bitter, sweet, acidic — and once you swallow, evaluate the burn and aftertaste. How long is the aroma present in your throat? That bitterness ...