Highlights and Visit the Cathedral - Half Day Walking Tour

We are at "Ropemakers' Garden"a complex of buildings, dated the 18th century, arises majestically. Or beside the monumental fountain of the four-winged lions (Porto has 170 fountains! They are really everywhere!). At the opposite hill, called "Battle Square", we can imagine the bohemian 19th-century Porto. Here was placed the first Opera House and, on the top, St. Ildefonso Church depicts 11000 tiles. Near the "Calçada da Vandoma" lays the most important of the 4 gates of the old wall. The story goes back to the year 900. Over there, look at "the Queen Stairs", climbed every day by the mother of our first king to follow the progress of the cathedral construction, that she founded. Inside it, the marked verticality of the central nave, with its thick, fasciculated pillars, vaults and arches, the gilt altarpiece, the fresco walls, the silver altar. At "The Whirlpool Alley" stands the city's oldest house. Now strolling down the riverfront, through narrow streets and long granite staircases towards Ribeira