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	The new table wines coming from Portugal's Douro Valley: part 1, overview
		The Douro valley, in northern Portugal, is wine geek heaven.
		The recent history of the Douro is dominated by the Port trade.
		It was a fairly perilous journey (these days the Douro is dammed, and is much gentler: gone are the rapids), made then in special boats called ‘rabelos’.
	www.wineanorak.com /douro_overview1.htm (796 words)

	Douro - LoveToKnow 1911
		The Douro rises south of the Sierra de la Demanda, in the Pico de Urbion, an isolated mountain mass 73 8 9 ft. high.
		The length of the Douro, which is greater than that of any other Iberian river except the Tagus and Guadiana, is probably about 485 m.; but competent authorities differ widely in their estimates, the extremes given being 420 and 507 m.
		The area drained by the Douro and its tributaries is upwards of 37,500 sq.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Douro (383 words)

	River Douro cruises in Spain and Portugal cruising the river Douro
		River Douro cruises in Spain and Portugal cruising the river Douro
		Europe River Cruises on the Danube, Douro, Rhine, Elbe, Seine, Rhone, in Venice and Russia
		The Douro is one of Europe's most untouched and beautiful rivers.
	www.cruisingholidays.co.uk /river/douro/index.htm (514 words)

	Great Wine Capitals - DOURO - Porto
		The boundaries of the Douro region correspond with an outcrop of pre-Cambrian schist.
		Hemmed in by granite, this schist runs either side of the Douro river for nearly 100 km, from the Spanish frontier in the east to the village of Barqueiros in the west.
		The River Corgo flows into the Douro near where the town of Regua splits the main production area of DOC Porto into two: Baixo Corgo, the area around the town is the westernmost area for port production, and also the coolest and wettest.
	www.greatwinecapitals.com /porto/por_reg_douro.html (349 words)

	Douro - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Douro (Portuguese Douro; Spanish Duero; ancient Durius), river of the Iberian Peninsula.
		Douro, Faino Fluvial (Labor On The Douro River): director
		Oliveira borrowed money for a camera to direct his first film, Douro, faino fluvial (Labor on the Douro River, 1931), a short documentary.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Douro.html (135 words)

	Douro, Ector County, Texas
		Douro, ten miles southwest of Odessa in south central Ector County, was founded when the Texas and Pacific Railway built through the area in 1881.
		Douro [or Duro], Texas, a vanished community, was established 10 miles southwest of Odessa, Texas, on the Texas and Pacific railroad in southwestern Ector County in 1881, when the railroad reached the county.
		Douro reported one business and a population of 25 from 1939 until 1947.
	www.historictexas.net /ector/places/douro.htm (328 words)

	Douro River Basin - UNEP/DEWA~Europe > Publication > Freshwater in Europe
		The Douro River is the third longest in the Iberian Peninsula and its basin is the largest there.
		Grapes are the chief crop of the Douro valley, and the Douro estuary is the centre of the Portuguese wine trade.
		The Douro River watershed drains 17% of the Iberian Peninsula.
	www.grid.unep.ch /product/publication/freshwater_europe/douro.php?size=large (344 words)

	Douro - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Douro (Portuguese Douro; Spanish Duero; ancient Durius), river of the Iberian Peninsula.
		Douro, Faino Fluvial (Labor On The Douro River): director
		Oliveira borrowed money for a camera to direct his first film, Douro, faino fluvial (Labor on the Douro River, 1931), a short documentary.
	encarta.msn.com /Douro.html (150 words)

	ENJOYING PORT WINE - Into Wine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		ORT is a fortified wine from the remote vineyards in Portugal's Douro Valley.
		Wine production in the Douro Valley was revolutionized — vineyards were literally built out of the mountain, resin-treated goat skins were traded for wooden barrels, transportation of the barrels down-river was organized, and the shippers built warehouses or "lodges" in Vila Nova de Gaia to store their wines.
		The last region is the Douro Superior and extends to the Spanish border.
	www.intowine.com /port.html (1787 words)

	Douro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Douro or Duero (Latin: Durius, Spanish: Duero, Portuguese: Douro, pron.
		The region around Pinhão and São João da Pesqueira is considered to be the centre of Port wine, with its picturesque quintas or farms clinging on to almost vertical slopes dropping down to the river.
		There are nine dams on the Portuguese Douro alone making the flow of water uniform and generating hydroelectric power.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Douro (623 words)

	DOURO
		With all bridges across the Douro destroyed Soult felt fairly certain that any attack upon Oporto could only be made from the west and as such all French defences were duly fashioned to meet the threat from this direction.
		On the morning of May 12th Wellesley's troops began to filter into the suburb of Villa Nova, on the south bank of the Douro and soon afterwards Wellesley himself arrived to survey the scene from the monastery of Serra do Pilar, a commanding viewpoint high above the river.
		Wellesley's daring crossing of the Douro had been a master stroke which had resulted in the total defeat of Soult's forces in and around Oporto.
	www.ifbt.co.uk /douro.htm (1085 words)

	GovMint.com - The Lost Treasure of the Douro
		Loaded with coffee, diamonds, gold and affluent passengers, the RMS Douro was on the final leg of a 10,000-mile voyage from the trading ports in Brazil to England on April 1, 1882, when it collided with another ship and sank.
		On April 1, 1882, the Douro was on the final leg of what was fated to be her last voyage.
		Ignoring a rumor that another salvage team had located the Douro and had reported that the wreck was in too poor a condition for any salvage attempt, Hallstrom set sail in search of the Douro on June 4, 1993.
	www.govmint.com /knowledgebase/LostTreasureofDouro.aspx (903 words)

	TheTravelzine.com Portugal Spring 1999 (1) Porto, Douro, Lamego and Vila Real
		The valley of the Douro, her rock crusted, mountainous borders transformed into walled, fertile terraces, is a gigantic vineyard.
		There are Douro River cruises of varying lengths from Porto but we opted for the train and bus alternative for the three days we had planned.
		Lamego is the cultural capital of the Douro.
	www.thetravelzine.com /portugalporto99.htm (2448 words)

	Douro Shipwreck Gold Coin Jewelry, Douro Gold Sovereigns
		The RMS Douro, a British transatlantic luxury steamer, was lost in 1882 after colliding with the Spanish steamer Yrurac Bat in the Bay of Biscay while on the last leg of her 62nd and final voyage.
		The Douro, built in 1865, was one of the most popular ships in the Royal fleet and a favorite of the wealthy traveling from Brazil South America to Southampton England via Portugal.
		In all, only six Douro passengers lost their lives, leaving, together with those from the other ship, a total of 59 passengers and crew drowned.
	www.newworldtreasures.com /douro14k.htm (344 words)

	..:.. IPTM - Instituto Portuário e dos Transportes Marítimos - Delegação do Douro ..:..
		The functions and responsibilities of the IND were taken over by the Douro Delegation of the IPTM, ensuring continuity of the planned project (namely, the promotion of navigation and related activities, thus contributing to the development of the Douro region).
		There are 52 tourist boats operating on the Douro, offering many different kinds of trip, ranging from a short tour (past the 6 bridges of Oporto and Gaia, for example, or the World Heritage tour) to the week-long cruise from Oporto to Barca d'Alva in luxury cruiser.
		As regards pleasure boating was a substantial increase in relation to previous years in the number of passengers and pleasure craft using the locks, explained by the greater interest in river tourism and by the fact that there are now new harbours available offering support services and other facilities.
	www.douro.iptm.pt /EN/via_navegavel/index.html (1835 words)

	The Douro Valley - The Port wine growing area
		Port wine is produced in the Douro Valley, in the north east of Portugal.
		In addition the Douro valley has an extremely harsh climate: "nine months of winter, three months of hell" as a local saying puts it, alluding to the sharp frosts of winter and the breathless summer days when temperatures reach 40º in the shade.
		The winegrowing in the Douro Valley bears a long tradition and to some extent this is still reflected in the owner structure of today.
	www.rozes.pt /UK/portwine/wine_growing_area.htm (1983 words)

	Duoro River Cruise, Portugal - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		From 1143, when Portugal became an independent kingdom, Douro wine was often mentioned in royal decrees, and by the 13th century it was shipped down the Douro River to the coastal town of Porto, and exported as far afield as Holland.
		The Portuguese historian, joão de Barros, in his Geografia of 1 548, cites the quality of various wine locations from one end of the Douro to the other, enthusing that wonderful wines are harvested in the Douro, whence they are shipped to the city of Porto.
		The exact boundaries of the Douro region, and strict regulations to insure the authenticity of the wine, were set by 1761.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /douro_river_cruise.htm (886 words)

	Cockburn’s - The Douro River Valley
		Wine is shipped in bulk from the Douro area to these lodges to age in the cool seacoast climate.
		Originally demarcated in 1756, the Douro is divided into three regions: the Baixo Corgo (bay-shoo corg-oh), the Cima Corgo (see-ma corg-oh) and the Douro Superior.
		The steep, rugged hillsides of the Cima Corgo and Douro Superior were found to produce superior wines, and it is here that all of the great port houses, including Cockburn's, established vineyard holdings here.
	www.cockburns-usa.com /the_winery_douro_river.html (203 words)

	The New Douro: focusing on the leading Portuguese wine region
		Within the Douro there are quite marked differences between different vineyards sites depending on the elevation (it’s warmest down by the river), the position along the river (the closer to Regua the cooler, generally) and the exposure (not surprisingly, north-facing vineyards are coolest).
		Wine grapes have been grown in the Douro since Roman times, but for a long time the vines were grown in the gaps of the stone terraces, with the flat parts reserved for agriculture.
		The Douro boomed when Port was discovered in the late 17th century, and demand for Portuguese wine in England soared as the English were at was with the French.
	www.wineanorak.com /douro2004_1.htm (928 words)

	Accommodation Porto Oporto Douro Minho Portugal
		MINHO ACCOMMODATION IN PORTO AND THE DOURO REGION OF PORTUGAL.
		Porto is the second city in Portugal and sits at the mouth of the Douro River.
		Cottages - Porto and Douro Basin - Portugal
	www.manorhouses.com /accom-douro-index.html (1280 words)

	Alto Douro Wine Region - UNESCO World Heritage Centre (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Criterion iii The Alto Douro Region has been producing wine for nearly two thousand years and its landscape has been moulded by human activities.
		Criterion iv The components of the Alto Douro landscape are representative of the full range of activities association with winemaking – terraces, quintas (wine-producing farm complexes), villages, chapels, and roads.
		Criterion v The cultural landscape of the Alto Douro is an outstanding example of a traditional European wine-producing region, reflecting the evolution of this human activity over time.
	whc.unesco.org /en/list/1046 (177 words)

	Where's Johnny Jet: Drinking & Dining in Portugal's Douro Valley \| Barcelos (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The jaw-dropping Alto Douro region has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage site (here's the link), because the region has produced wine for almost 2,000 years and its landscape has been molded by human activities (see this UNESCO link for more criteria).
		The Douro Valley is a perfect place for growing grapes, cherries and olives.
		After another long, winding road we were high in the upper Douro Valley, in the parking lot of the Quinta Nova de Nossa Senhora do Carmo estate.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/article.cfm?destid=2672&articleid=4011&t=Where%27s%20Johnny%20Jet%3A%20Drinking%20%26amp%3B%20Dining%20in%20Portugal%27s%20Douro%20Valley (2751 words)

	Alto Douro Wine Region - World Heritage Site - Pictures, info and travel reports
		This is due to the large number of rivers in the northern region when compared with the southern one and also due to the amount of water that flows in these rivers.
		Douro river comes from Spain and since it touches Portugal, in a region that it is the frontier between Spain and Portugal (International Douro park), it passes along the most impressive scenery that I know for a river.
		Douro Wine Region is the oldest marked wine region and it is the mother region of Port and Douro wines.
	www.worldheritagesite.org /sites/altodouro.html (385 words)

	Uniworld
		The intimate Douro Prince joined the Uniworld fleet in 2002 as the newest and most luxurious ship on the Douro River.
		Douro Prince staterooms are spacious, non-smoking, with panoramic views.
		Outside cabins measure 110 to 130 sq ft, while the one suite - at 225 sq ft - is almost twice the size of a standard cabin.
	www.uniworld.com /ship_detail.asp?Ship_ID=60 (247 words)

	Portugal's Douro Valley & the Origin of Port Wine
		The Douro River Valley is Portugal's 'Port wine route', with ancient terraced vineyards on both sides of the river, which was once the transport route for vintages brought to the town of Porto.
		The vines follow the contours of the land in sinuous rows, and the marronier trees in places along the sides of the road form a canopy of light and shadow.
		Along the Douro River are many small quintas producing their own Port wines, blending 100-year-old Ports in limited amounts with younger vintages under strictly controlled conditions.
	www.kamprint.com /douro.html (313 words)

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