Porto - information about the city

Porto also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits (an area of 41.66 km²/16 sq.mi) include a population of 237,559 (2011) inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes. The urbanized area of Porto, which extends beyond the administrative limits of the city, has a population of 1.3 million (2011) in an area of 389 km2 (150 sq mi), making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. The Porto Metropolitan Area includes approximately 1.7 million people. Located along the Douro river estuary in northern Portugal, Porto is one of the oldest European centres, and registered as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996. Its settlement dates back many centuries, when it was an outpost of the Roman Empire. Its Latin name, Portus Cale, has been referred to as the origin for the name "Portugal," based on transliteration and oral evolution from Latin.

	Porto Cathedral	The Porto Cathedral (Sé do Porto), located in the historical centre of the city of Porto, Portugal, is one of the city's oldest monuments and one of the most important Romanesque monuments in Portugal The current Cathedral of Porto underwent construction around 1110 under the patronage of Bishop Hug...
	Dom Luís Bridge, Porto	The Luís I Bridge (Ponte Luís I) is a metal arch bridge that spans the Douro River between the cities of Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia in Portugal. At the time of construction its span of 172 m was the longest of its type in the world. The Government held a competition for the construction of a metall...

Geographical coordinates: 41.15, -8.6167
Approximate population: 1,115,000

• Porto Cathedral (1110 - ?, ?)
• Dom Luís Bridge, Porto (1881 - ?, 1886)

• Dom Luís Bridge, Porto (172 m.)

• Nicolau Nasoni (1)
• Miguel Francisco da Silva (1)
• Téophile Seyrig (1)

• Nicolau Nasoni (1)
• Miguel Francisco da Silva (1)