Oporto
The World Heritage city of Oporto is one of Europe's most fascinating but least known travel destinations. It's magnificent architecture and spectacular location overlooking the River Douro make Oporto one of the world's most dramatic and memorable city landscapes. An important seaport and traditionally a city of merchants and commerce, it's many elegant buildings are testament to the enterprise and vision of it's industrious and independently-minded inhabitants, with their distinctive accent, quick sense of humor and famously welcoming nature.
Oporto is a striking combination of the old and the new. Although in the past It's prosperity was based on commerce and manufacturing, Oporto's economy is fast diversifying. A centre of medical excellence and world class scientific research and an IT industry supplying global software solutions thrive alongside businesses, such as the Port Wine houses, which have been successful for over three hundred years.
However, it is not the modern but the historic city of Oporto which holds the greatest fascination for the visitor. This is above all a city of hidden delights, of intimate squares and gardens, traditional markets and unusual museums. It is a city of districts and quarters, each with its own special and authentic character. Stylish, eccentric, elegant or romantic, Oporto's many faces now find their reflection in The Yeatman, the hotel which defines the city
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