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Portugal’s Hidden Stories: A Self-Guided Audio Tour in Porto

By VoiceMap Audio Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is NZ$17 per adult
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Overview

Porto’s picturesque streets are home to grand medieval buildings, revolutionary history, and cute cafés filled with culinary delights. On this self-guided walking tour, you’ll hear the stories of kings who dressed their dead wives as queens, princes who launched the Age of Discovery, and ordinary citizens who shaped Portugal’s destiny.

Starting in front of the impressive Porto City Hall, you’ll wander through cobbled streets where Roman settlers once traded, medieval merchants crafted sword scabbards, and Portuguese rebels proclaimed the first republic. You’ll hear the history hidden beneath its famous blue tiles and granite facades.

As you make your way to Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto’s neighbouring city where the tour ends, you’ll head up steps to spectacular viewpoints.

By the end of this tour, you’ll have an experience of Porto not just as a tourist destination, but as a living chronicle of Portuguese creativity.

This walking tour covers about two miles with some uphill sections.

Activity location
  • Porto City Hall
    • Praça General Humberto Delgado
    • 4049-001, Porto, Porto, Portugal
Meeting/Redemption Point
  • Porto City Hall
    • Praça General Humberto Delgado
    • 4049-001, Porto, Porto, Portugal

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Portugal’s Hidden Stories: A Self-Guided Audio Tour in Porto in English
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h
    2h
  • Opening hours: Wed 12:00 am-11:59 pm
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
NZ$17.10 x 1 AdultNZ$17.10
Total
Price is NZ$17.10

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Lifetime access to this tour in English before your booking date and after it
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
  • What's includedWhat's included
    App for Android and iOS
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Flexibility to explore at your own pace with a self-guided GPS tour
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Directions to the starting point so that when you’re in the right place, the tour will start
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Smartphone and headphones
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Personal expenses for attractions not included during the tour
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Food and drink
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Transport

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  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Porto (Pass by)
Porto’s picturesque streets are home to grand medieval buildings, revolutionary history, and cute cafés filled with culinary delights. On this self-guided audio tour, you’ll hear the stories of kings who dressed their dead wives as queens, princes who launched the Age of Discovery, and ordinary citizens who shaped Portugal’s destiny.
Porto City Hall (Pass by)
Starting in front of the impressive Porto City Hall, you’ll wander through cobbled streets where Roman settlers once traded, medieval merchants crafted sword scabbards, and Portuguese rebels proclaimed the first republic.
Avenida Dos Aliados (Pass by)
trolling through the city’s atmospheric streets, from the grand Avenida dos Aliados (Avenue of the Allies) to the ancient Jewish quarter’s narrow alleyways, you’ll hear the history hidden beneath its famous blue tiles and granite facades.
Miradouro da Vitoria (Pass by)
From Miradouro da Vitória and Miradouro da Rua das Aldas, you’ll enjoy sweeping vistas over the Douro River.
Sao Bento Railway Station (Pass by)
Marvel at São Bento Station’s 20,000 hand-painted tiles depicting Portugal’s most pivotal historical moments, from medieval battles to royal weddings
Ponte de Dom Luis I (Pass by)
You’ll cross the iconic Dom Luís I Bridge, designed by a former partner of Gustave Eiffel, while learning about the tragic bridge collapse that claimed thousands of lives during Napoleon’s invasion.
Miradouro da Rua das Aldas (Pass by)
From Miradouro da Vitória and Miradouro da Rua das Aldas, you’ll enjoy sweeping vistas over the Douro River.
Livraria Lello (Pass by)
Stand outside Livraria Lello, often called the world’s most beautiful bookshop, and learn why literary pilgrims queue for hours to enter
Torre dos Clerigos (Pass by)
Climb Torre dos Clérigos, once Portugal’s tallest building and a navigation beacon for ships, while hearing ghost stories of lovelorn monks
Igreja do Carmo (Pass by)
Explore Igreja do Carmo’s spectacular tiled facade featuring 40,000 ceramic pieces
Porto Puppet Museum (Pass by)
Pass by Porto’s tiny Puppet Museum, which preserves centuries-old Portuguese marionette traditions
Vila Nova de Gaia (Pass by)
As you make your way to Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto’s neighbouring city where the tour ends, you’ll head up steps to spectacular viewpoints.

Location

Activity location
  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIES
    Porto City Hall
    • Praça General Humberto Delgado
    • 4049-001, Porto, Porto, Portugal
Meeting/Redemption Point
  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Porto City Hall
    • Praça General Humberto Delgado
    • 4049-001, Porto, Porto, Portugal

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