Porto Walking Tour

The Porto walking tour is a walk that takes place in Porto and especially in its historical centre. The duration of the Porto walking tour varies from 4 to hours or 6. Depending on the service required, as with the Porto walking tour, in addition to visiting the historic city centre, you can also visit the part that corresponds to Villa Nova de Gaia,which is the area where you can visit all the wine cellars. Let us now see what you can visit in the first part, which corresponds to the historical centre.

Avenida dos Aliados
Liberty Square
São Bento Station
Porto CathedralRua dos Flores
Bell Towers and Church dos Clérigos
Das Carmelitas Church
University of Porto
Coffee Stop with tasting
Centre for Photography
Mirador da Vittoria
Jews Ghetto
City Walls
Miragaia
Church of St Francis
Palace of the Stock Exchange, exterior
Ribeira with Henry the Navigator’s house.

The Porto Walking Tour is a tour that takes place privately by appointment. This type of guided tour also includes a visit to one of the Port wine cellars in Gaia, where the guide will take you on a tour of one of the Port wine cellars in Gaia.

This is why it is important that the guide accompanies you for the tasting. The visit to the cellars can be organised in various ways. In the sense that from Ribeira you can go to Gaia on foot via the big Sant’ Luis bridge. Where one visits the Sanderman-type wineries, which are the next wineries that can be reached on foot.

On the other hand, depending on the number of people, you can take a taxi and go to other wineries that are less visited and are a little more expensive and require a taxi since they are inside Gaia. Such as: the Cockburns, Churchills, Grahamas, Taylors. All of which are within Gaia and require a taxi to get there.

Walking tour Porto: Serra do Pilar Monastery

Once you have finished visiting the wineries, if you wish, you can extend your day by visiting the Serra do Pilar Monastery. This extraordinary monument in Gaia can be visited before or after the visit to the wineries. Of course, in this case the guided tour and walking tour of Porto becomes a one-day tour with a lunch stop.

The return is either by taxi or by metro. Gaia is another city but it is on the other side of the Douro River and is easy to reach. Even if on foot, it is only worth doing the outward journey and the return is by public transport or taxi.

As you will see, the Douro is a big river and it is a very wide river, which means that the distances are very large, compared to the historical centre of the city, which can be visited very well in a short time. If you wish, in the Gaia area, there is also the Lada funicular railway that connects the river with the upper part of Gaia.

Here, too, it is an experience to be had as it is a small funicular that is very reminiscent of mountain cabins from where you can get a panoramic view of the city of Porto and Gaia. Since both cities are next to each other.

It is no coincidence that the people of Porto say that the most beautiful thing in Gaia is the view of Porto. However, if you want to stay in Gaia, apart from the view of the river Gaia is also famous for the view of the sea where there is a beautiful promenade where you can walk for hours…