[1/2] Porto was the Roman settlement of Portus Cale, giving rise to the country name of Portugal, although Roman remains are fragmented. Today central Porto is a World Heritage Site, with visible evidence of its evolution from a medieval to baroque town & of its role in Atlantic trade. Our 🚆 arrived into São Bento, with its lobby tiles depicting Portuguese history & we began exploring in the upper city. There were queues to climb Clérigos Tower for pano views (📷1) & at the nearby Livraria Lello bookstore (📷2). On to Mercado do Bolhão, similarly suffering from excess humanity on Good Friday. Given a recommendation from the ladies in a specialty coffee shop, lunch was at Café Santiago on Rua de Passos Manuel: a francesinha, the iconic Porto sandwich, with fries & port (📷3). We walked downhill on the pedestrianised 16th C. Rua das Flores, into the Centro Histórico (📷4).

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