Porto

This family-run shop brings the history of trade down to the home above the store, the old cash register, and several generations behind the counter.

This stop will show how the site of a short-lived republic became the city's main avenue.

The finale will connect the ageing of wine with a family name that buyers had to take on trust.

The quay explains why wine warehouses occupied this bank and what merchants risked losing in a single night.

This stop will show how return cargo from Brazil changed the trade of a family-owned house.

The chapel will explain why the old dedication to Catherine came to bear the name of the brotherhood that moved here.

The surviving contract lets you see in the altar not anonymous Baroque, but a completed and inspected commission.

The plan for a new street will show how a lay brotherhood secured the preservation of a former monastic church.

The brotherhood's records will link the famous bell tower to the aid its elderly architect received at the end of his life.

The crossing will show how a single metal arch linked two levels of the city at once.

The short descent will reveal the price paid for a direct connection between the garden and the wine riverfront.

The garden makes it possible to reconstruct the lost part of the hill and see how transportation created Gaia's new center.

The finale will bring together the disaster on a floating deck and the engineering choice of a two-level crossing.

The story of one fishmonger shows the market as a workplace that a family passed down along with its trade.

A royal wedding will show how a military treaty was turned into kinship and dynastic support.

The pink palace will restore the square's role as a military hospital and link it to the defense of the height beyond the Douro.

Fish levies explain why trade was drawn to this stretch of riverbank for centuries.

Stone markers on the houses show how the new commercial street preserved the boundaries of the former church-owned lands.

The café is useful to the route as a rare case in which an expensive restoration stopped an already planned change of use.

The fate of the last abbess explains why the railroad reached the center before the convent disappeared.

Here, the height above the Douro would become a military position on which the defense of Porto depended.

Here you will compare the exposed old masonry with the square created after the medieval quarters were cleared away.