Attraction
1. Clérigos Church and Tower
Nicolau Nasoni's 18th-century Baroque church and 75.6-metre tower, with 240 steps to a 360-degree view over Porto's rooftops and the Douro.
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2. Jerónimos Monastery
Begun in 1501 for King Manuel I, this Manueline monastery in Belém holds the tombs of Vasco da Gama and Luís de Camões and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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3. Belém Tower
Built between about 1514 and 1519 to guard the mouth of the Tagus, Belém Tower is a Manueline fortress that reopened in May 2026 after restoration.
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4. Livraria Lello
Porto's celebrated bookshop, opened on Rua das Carmelitas in 1906, known for its carved wooden interior, stained-glass skylight and sweeping red staircase.
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5. Dom Luís I Bridge
The double-deck iron arch bridge of 1886 linking Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia, with metro trains and walkers on top and a riverside crossing below.
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6. São Jorge Castle
The hilltop castle above Alfama, taken from the Moors in 1147 and later a royal palace, has wall walks, a camera obscura and wide views of the Tagus.
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7. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Oil magnate Calouste Gulbenkian's art collection, from ancient Egypt to Lalique jewellery, set in a landscaped garden alongside the Kengo Kuma-redesigned modern art centre.
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8. Porto Cathedral (Sé do Porto)
Porto's hilltop cathedral, begun in the 12th century, combines a Romanesque nave, a Gothic cloister lined with Baroque tiles and works by Nicolau Nasoni.
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9. Oceanário de Lisboa
Built for Expo '98 on a pier in Parque das Nações, Lisbon's aquarium centres on a five-million-litre tank holding sharks, rays and an ocean sunfish.
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10. São Bento Railway Station
Porto's central station, opened in 1916, whose entrance hall is lined with about 20,000 azulejo tiles by Jorge Colaço depicting Portuguese history.
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11. Palácio da Bolsa
The neoclassical Stock Exchange Palace, built from 1842 for Porto's Commercial Association, visited on short guided tours that end in the gilded Arab Room.
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12. Praça do Comércio
The great riverside square laid out after the 1755 earthquake on the site of the Ribeira Palace, framed by arcades and the Rua Augusta Arch.
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13. Church of São Francisco
Porto's most important Gothic church, completed around 1425, whose interior is almost entirely covered in 17th and 18th-century gilded Baroque woodwork.
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14. Lisbon Cathedral (Sé de Lisboa)
Lisbon's oldest church, begun in 1147 after the Christian conquest, mixes Romanesque towers with Gothic and Baroque work and has Roman remains in its cloister.
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15. Padrão dos Descobrimentos
A 56-metre riverside monument to the Age of Discoveries, inaugurated in 1960, with a rooftop viewpoint and a giant compass rose and world map in front.
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16. Serralves Foundation
Álvaro Siza's contemporary art museum, an Art Deco villa and around 18 hectares of gardens and woodland make Serralves Porto's leading cultural estate.
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17. Casa da Música
Rem Koolhaas's angular concert hall, opened in 2005, home to the Porto Symphony Orchestra and open daily for guided tours of its glass-walled auditoriums.
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18. MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology)
The EDP Foundation's riverside museum pairs Amanda Levete's curved 2016 building with the red-brick Tejo Power Station for exhibitions of art, architecture and technology.
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19. Crystal Palace Gardens
Eight hectares of 19th-century Romantic gardens laid out by Émile David, with peacocks, shaded avenues and terraces looking over the Douro towards the sea.
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20. National Coach Museum
Founded by Queen Amélie in 1905, the Coach Museum displays royal and ceremonial carriages from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries in a modern Belém building.
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