Oporto

A very luxurious chamber of commerce

[Jan. 2022] From 4:00 pm that day, we visited the Bolsa Palace, one of the main tourist attractions in Oporto, Portugal. This is not a place that you can casually visit and see, but all…

Oporto

A church which reminded me of ‘Silence’

[ Jan.2022 ] Shortly after we started staying in Oporto, Portugal, the person at the tourist information centre recommended us to see Church of San Francisco, saying this was  “a must-see spot”. So we visited…

Oporto

Cathedral and the bookshop

[Jan. 2022] Our stay in Oporto, Portugal will continue. In the morning of the next day, we decided to visit the cathedral in the neighbourhood of Airbnb where we were staying. The cathedral was the…

Guimaraes

The town I want to visit again

[Dec. 2021] We went to Guimaraes in the afternoon with the tour that departed from Porto, Portugal. This is a World Heritage Site that is said to be the birthplace of Portugal. The first King…

Braga

The cathedral representing the city of prayer

[Dec. 2021] In Portugal, it is said that “Braga prays, Coimbra learns, Porto works, Lisbon plays“. This was one of the things we learned from Claudia, the guide of this tour. There are many churches…

Braga

Stunning staircase

[Dec. 2021] During the tour to Braga, a town in northern Portugal, we visited a pilgrimage site called the Bom Jesus do Monte Sanctuary next. It is located on the top of Mount Espinho and…

Braga

Taking a tour to visit Braga

[Dec. 2021] On this day, we took a bus tour and headed north from Oporto, Portugal, to visit Braga and Guimaraes. They told us that the meeting time was 8:30, so we went before that,…

Oporto

Crossed the bridge, then the Covid test

[Dec. 2021] After the tuk-tuk tour in Oporto, Portugal, ended on the hill on the Gaia side, we crossed the Dom Luis I Bridge and returned to the Porto side. It was a bridge that…

Oporto

Along the river

[Dec. 2021] The second half of the tuk-tuk tour in Oporto, a town in northern Portugal. We had a commemorative photo taken on a hill along the Douro River. As I learned at that time,…