The place i'm from...

[BladeRunner]

Being a foreign here, felt like it's a good ideia showing to all of you the place (city/country) i'm from!
It's an opportunity to get to know another places and other "colours"!
First... some links to sites with lot of photos from Oporto, Portugal:

http://amen.no.sapo.pt/index-english.htm
http://www.pbase.com/jandrade/ruas_do_porto
http://pedro-samuel.spaces.live.com/?_c11_BlogPart_BlogPart=blogview&_c=BlogPart&partqs=cat=IMAGENS
http://pt.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/Portugal/North/Porto/

Some photos of the most beautiful bridge of Portugal, D. Luis I Bridge, it joins Oporto to the twin city of Vila Nova de Gaia.

Many years ago:

Not so many years ago:

Recent years:

Other photos:

By night:

Fireworks:

Another:

Oporto and Vila Nova de gaia are united by 6 bridges... i'll post photos of the others...

 

[Nibiru2012]

That bridge is way cool! Lovely city too. If I ever hit the "lottery" I want to go to Europe and travel for six months or more.

Ireland, England, Scotland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, France, and other countries I can't spell right now.

 

[BladeRunner]

One more bridge. This is the Arrábida bridge! This bridge lets you look at the Douro river and on the other side you can see the Atlantic... It used to have four elevators (lifts), but they were abandoned.

By night:

 

[yodap]

It looks beautiful!

A nice mix of new and old architectural styles.

 

[BladeRunner]

Next ones... railway bridges!
The old one, Maria Pia (Queen) Bridge, By Eiffel... behind we can see Infante's bridge:

The Old... and the New:

The new one, São João (St John) Bridge:

 

[Ian]

Really enjoyed those pics - what a good idea for a thread . I've never been to Porto before, but it looks really nice!

 

[clifford_cooley]

Nice pictures.

How many other landmarks are there, besides the four bridges?

I would upload pictures but I'm not real sure there is anything of interest in these parts.

 

[draceena]

The new bridge in the pictures sure reminds me of the Confederation Bridge we have here (only ours is wee bit longer, 12.9k or 8 miles).

 

[BladeRunner]

Nice pictures.

How many other landmarks are there, besides the four bridges?

I would upload pictures but I'm not real sure there is anything of interest in these parts.

Well... there's one more bridge :lol:
Of course there are more landmarks, i'll post photos of them, too.

 

[BladeRunner]

A small video of Anthony Bourdain in Porto:

[ame="[MEDIA=youtube]Pm_NksqzDA4[/MEDIA]"]YouTube - A Cook's Tour S01E07 - Cod Crazy, 1 of 2[/ame]

 

[BladeRunner]

Another video... the song is called "Porto Sentido", by Rui Veloso.
Not my kind of music, but it goes fine with the pictures...

[ame="[MEDIA=youtube]-mqGnvRwUoE[/MEDIA]"]YouTube - Porto Sentido[/ame]