Porto - The Unvanquished City

 Mercado do Bolhão

The Bolhão Market is the most famous in the city and in 2006 it was classified as a place of public interest. Dating back to 1850, with a singular structure with two floors, it is characterised by the monumentality of its neoclassic architecture. On the exterior, the market is divided into a large number of shops, facing the four surrounding roads: Fernandes Tomás, to the North, Alexandre Braga, to the East, Formosa, to the South, and Sá da Bandeira to the West. Dedicated mainly at fresh products, its sellers are divided into different specialised sections, namely: fishmongers, butchers, green grocers and florists.

Mercado do Bolhão - Rua Formosa, Porto

 Castelbel

 Castelbel is a medium-sized company headquartered in the Greater Porto area, near the valley of the Douro river in Northern Portugal, where the hills fall steeply down to the water’s edge and the land is covered with sun-drenched terraces of vines and olive groves.

The company manufactures and sells fine toiletry soaps and other luxury fragranced products for the home and body.

Castelbel - Praça D. Filipa de Lencastre, 62, Porto

 MUUDA

 MUUDA is a cosmopolitan and multi-purpose space divided in three different areas: one dedicated to art and design; another dominated by the clothes collections of some Portuguese fashion designers like Katty Xiomara and Luís Buchinho; and the last one devoted to the flavors of the taste and of the reading. In this last area, there’s a huge table where you can lunch, have a snack or taste a wine, have dinner or just read a book, newspaper or magazine.

MUUDA - Rua do Rosário, 294, Porto

 Galeria de Paris

Galeria de Paris is a unique restaurant-bar where once operated a warehouse with fabrics sold by the measure, which were shown to customers over the same counters where now are served meals, little plates of appetizers, several ‘tapas’, homemade cakes and drinks. As well as the counters, thousands of old objects appears to our eyes behind the windows of two big shelves that fill the walls, between games and toys, boxes and jars, dolls, machines, radios, scales, watches, and many others.

Galeria de Paris - Rua Galeria de Paris, 56, Porto