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Porto Bites & Sights Walking Tour

Are you ready to eat your way through Porto? Then Porto Bites & Sights Walking Tour is exactly what you’re looking for.

Everyone knows the city is gorgeous, but did you also know that it is delicious? We’ll show you the best of Porto’s famous sights in between sampling some of Porto’s best bites. This Porto tour is one you won’t want to miss.

Throughout this Porto city tour we’ll explore some of the city’s most beautiful sights, like balconies overlooking the river, unexplored streets and alleys, as well as popular taverns, markets, and cafes.

We’ll begin the feast that is this Porto food tour with a typically Portuguese habit: a with a “pastel de Nata” (custard tart), in a cafe that is more than 200 years old.

From there, we’ll taste and talk about the 1001 ways to prepare the “bacalhau” codfish, talk about the influence of our former colonies in our culture and cuisine, understand the connection we have with the river and sea, and learn about the Portuguese navigators and the tragedies Douro River.

Along the way you’ll sample a few authentic local specialties like bolinho de bacalhau (codfish), taste Portuguese comfort food such as a spicy pork sandwich, and be astonished by our mind-blowing cheese and smoked meats

We’ll finish off the tour with an outstanding port wine cocktail and we’ll make a toast to our beautiful city (come on, we wouldn’t take you on a tour of Porto and not share our world famous Port wine with you!).

This Tour Includes:
  • Storyteller;

  • Liability Insurance and Personal Accident;

  • Coffee & pastries, food and drinks;

  • VAT (IVA 23%).

Highlights:
  • Santa Catarina;

  • Rua Passos Manuel;

  • São Bento;

  • Cathedral;

  • Aliados;

  • Bairro de Miragaia e Ribeira.

Important Information:
  • Duration: 3 hours;

  • Daily tours;

  • Time: 3pm.

Tastings:
  • Special blend coffee and a Custard Tart;

  • Smoked meat, cheeses, cod pastry and, tripes;

  • Port Wine Cocktail.

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Food & Wine Walking Tour https://bluedragon.pt/tours-and-rentals/food-wine-walking-tour/ https://bluedragon.pt/tours-and-rentals/food-wine-walking-tour/#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2019 13:20:43 +0000 https://bluedragon.pt?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=120

Food & Wine Walking Tour

The Portuguese gastronomy is the sum of many influences and culinary customs of other civilizations that passed through here. These influences have enriched our culinary habits and helped us to discover new products. Portugal has a Mediterranean and Atlantic kitchen full of products brought from all over the world.

Food & Wine Walking Tour will allow you to discover the heart of a city and its people, to learn about the essential ingredients and their cultural heritage joining us and learning more about this rich and varied exceptionally kitchen, full of history and renowned for its quality.

This tour features a selection and variety of the best culinary delights that you will find in 5 different places in Porto. Walking through the most picturesque streets and the best places of its old town, you will discover the history of cuisine and traditional dishes as well as hear stories of some owners of “taverns” and more typical establishments.

Enjoy with us the flavours of Portuguese cuisine in some of the most traditional places and locations of Porto. Discover with us the story of “Francesinha”, the flavours and tragedies of Port Wine, the cult of coffee, and some stories of 1,001 different ways to prepare salted cod.

HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Santa Catarina;

  • Rua Passos Manuel;

  • Aliados;

TASTINGS:
  • Special blend coffee and a Custard Tart;

  • Cod Cake and a glass of Vinho Verde;

  • Smoked meat, cheeses, Bread, olives and a glass of douro Red Wine;

  • Bifana (traditional Portuguese pork spicy sandwich) and a beer;

  • 3 diferent types of Port.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
  • Duration: The tour lasts for 3 hours, from Mondays to Saturdays, at 10 am and 3pm;

  • Dietary Requirements & Allergies: This tour is vegetarian friendly, but please note substitutions are not available for every dish. You must notify us of any dietary requirements prior to your tour date, same-day requests cannot be guaranteed;

  • Children between 0 and 3 years old: Free

  • Children between 4 and 14 years old: 50% discount;

  • If you wish to enjoy a private tour there is an additional fee of €50 per tour.

This Tour Includes:
  • Storyteller;

  • Liability and Personal Accident insurance;

  • Tastings.

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The Best of Porto Walking Tour https://bluedragon.pt/tours-and-rentals/the-best-of-porto-walking-tour/ https://bluedragon.pt/tours-and-rentals/the-best-of-porto-walking-tour/#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2019 11:52:56 +0000 https://bluedragon.pt?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=114

The Best of Porto Walking Tour

This Best of Porto Walking Tour will take you, exclusively, through the streets of the historic center of Porto (classified as World Heritage by UNESCO since 1996), we invite you to discover this beautiful city “perched” on the river made of old houses that seem to pile up on each other and extending the “river to the sea”. Enjoy the ancient palaces, old churches, the most emblematic neighborhoods, people of Porto and the most picturesque corners of the city has to offer. Embellishing all this, we have the emblematic iron bridge designed by Teófilo Seyrig (apprentice of Gustave Eiffel), the cellars of Port Wine and the characteristic Rabelo boats lined up along the pier, preserving the memory of the old days, when they were used to transport the wine barrels.

The Best of Porto walk offer you a complete view of Porto. We invite you to join us in this walk to explore the city, the oldest neighborhoods and major sites while you receive the best orientation, information, historical and fascinating stories, best photo spots and superb service from your local guide.

PUBLIC TOUR

PRIVATE TOUR

PRIVATE TOUR

PRIVATE TOUR

PRIVATE TOUR

This Tour Includes:
  • Storyteller;

  • Liability Insurance and Personal Accident;

  • Water + coffee with a custart tart;

  • VAT (IVA 23%);

  • Minimum number of participants: 2;

  • Maximum participants: 12;

  • We can also provide in the following languages Portuguese, Spanish, French and Dutch.

Important Infortmation:
  • Duration: 3 hours;

  • Daily tours;

  • Time: 10 am and 3pm;

  • Meeting Point: Statue of Vimara Peres.

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