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Historic Centre of Porto
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How it came to be
Porto, on hills above the mouth of the Douro in northern Portugal, probably had a Phoenician trading post in the 8th century BC. The Romans named it Portus, the port, in the 1st century BC, and later it was attacked by Suebi, Visigoths, Normans and Moors.
The Romanesque core of the cathedral dates from the 12th century. In the 14th century stone walls were built around the medieval town and the harbour, and the Fernandine walls, named after King Fernando, were completed in 1376. In 1415 Prince Henry the Navigator set out from Porto for the conquest of Ceuta.
Later came buildings such as the Stock Exchange palace of 1842-1910 and São Bento station of 1900-1916. The old town, with its buildings from Romanesque to modern, was inscribed in 1996 together with the Luiz I Bridge and the Monastery of Serra do Pilar.
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