Welcome to Porto, the second city of Portugal. Known on some English-language maps as Oporto (the Portuguese call it "o Porto" in conversation, meaning simply "the Port"), this attractive, ancient city is most famous today not for the port itself but for what"s shipped out of it.
Overlooking the Douro
Today in History
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Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
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A species worth defending
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Welcome to my neck of the woods
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Indigenous Peoples Day
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30 years after Exxon Valdez
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Travel Sunday: San Francisco
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Hello, harbinger of spring
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Keep your hands inside the ride at all times…
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Celebrating the UN’s International Day of Families
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World Teachers Day
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A bull, some flowers, and a stratovolcano
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A rest stop for the birds
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It s Coffee Day
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A Latino art exhibition in Denver
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Space is for everyone
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Kangaroo family for National Hugging Day
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Oud-West, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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One for the books
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Celebrating Flag Day
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Even nature needs a backup plan…
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A toast to California!
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Bioluminescence at Trwyn Du Lighthouse in Wales
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Welcome to California
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On a Healing Field for Veterans Day
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A ‘circus of chaos’ for Stravinsky
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World Penguin Day
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Yi Peng Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand
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St. Patricks Day in County Waterford, Ireland
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Sea Otter Awareness Week
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Pearl of the Adriatic