Portuguese Empire and Porto Old Town Walking Tour (Small-groups)

In this tour by the Rivera of the Douro we will show you how Porto and Portugal became, thanks to its explorers, a naval and colonial empire, how its isolated location at the end of Europe with only two borders (Spain and the Atlantic Ocean) will force it to seek fortune beyond the known world, revolutionizing from then on, trade, navigation and naval engineering among other great feats.

Although Portugal conquered and discovered with its ships and explorers beyond the seas, it conquered the palates with sardines and codfish, all washed down with wine, not only port wine but also vinho verde. In our tours there is always a place for gastronomy, man does not live by history alone. And if we talk about wine, we talk about Gaia, its neighbouring city from where you can better contemplate Oporto.

We will talk about the dawn of an empire but also of its decline, how it rises from its ashes and the first attempts of modernization of a country that advanced at a different pace from the rest of Europe. Of their eternal allies the English and their mythical club.

They also had to do with the French, with a very particular one that many of you already know, Eiffel, yes, the one with the tower, left a mark in the form of a bridge in the city and its history is more than interesting.

Not only that, we will talk about floods, cork, graffiti ... its reputation as an undefeated city, (SPOILER ALERT), it was not.

Our tour goes through walls, emblematic neighbourhoods, viewpoints, bridges, stories, a thousand stories, sad and happy, heroic and cowardly, admirable and despicable.