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	Porto - Wikitravel
		Residents of Porto are known as Tripeiros (tripe eaters) allegedly due to the fact that the city went withut meat in order to provision the the fleet that left to conquor Ceuta in North Africa in 1415 (which left from Porto) and had to subsist on tripe soup, still a specialty of the city.
		Citizens of Porto, while definitely Portuguese, hold themselves apart culturally from the rest of the country, as is expressed in the often heard phrase "o Porto é uma nação" (Porto is a nation).
		Porto is generally a safe place to be, if you take some precautions like walking in well illuminated streets, keeping your money to yourself and don't show off.
	wikitravel.org /en/Porto (3981 words)

	Porto - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Porto (in English also Oporto), population 263,000 in 15 parishes, with 1,551,950 in the metropolitan area, is Portugal's second city and district seat.
		For graduate and post-graduate education, Porto has several universities, the larger one being the state-managed University of Porto.
		The football clubs FC Porto and Boavista FC, playing in the highest Portuguese division, are both from Porto.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Porto (1032 words)

	Porto Metro - The Encyclopedia
		The Porto Metro (Metro do Porto), part of the mass transit public transport system of Porto, Portugal, is a light-rail network of electrified railways that run underground in central Porto and above ground into the city's suburbs.
		The Porto Metro was founded in 2002, and it was for years one of the major construction sites in the European Union.
		The C1 zone in central Porto is effectively the area contained within the VCI (Via Cintura Interna) inner ring-road, while zones C2 and C6 are the areas between the VCI and the Estrada da CircunvalaÃ§Ã£o outer ring-road.
	www.the-encyclopedia.com /description/Porto_Metro (1320 words)

	Porto Metro - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The Porto Metro (Metro do Porto), part of the mass transit public transport system of Porto, Portugal, is a network of electrified railways that run underground in central Porto and above ground into the city's suburbs.
		The Porto Metro was founded in 2002, currently the major construction site in the European Union.
		It is a modern and open metro system, using a modern system of chip tickets, where the person does not need to take the ticket from ones wallet, just needing to put it in front of the scanner.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/p/o/r/Porto_Metro_fba2.html (721 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It groups the larger Porto conurbation (compoosed by the municipalities of Port, Matosinhos, Vila Nova de Gaia, Gondomar, Valongo and Maia, often considered by many as the true city of Porto), the second in the country, a smaller conurbation of PÃ³voa de Varzim and Vila do Conde, which ranks as the six largest in Portugal.
		Porto Metro is a Rapid transit system controlled by the Metropolitan area that links the municipalities of Porto, Vila Nova de Gaia, Matosinhos, Maia, Vila do Conde and PÃ³voa de Varzim.
		Greater Porto is served by a great number of Motorways linking the main central areas of the metropolitan region and the region with other main Portuguese cities.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Greater_Metropolitan_Area_of_Porto (742 words)

	Portugal City & Hotel Guides :: Porto Sightseeing Guide
		Much is made of the contrast and rivalry between Porto and Lisbon - 'Lisbon shows off, while Porto works' - and the two port cities are the centre of the urban and commercial life of the country.
		Giving its name to the nation, Porto dates from Roman times, prospering during the age of Portugal's overseas expansion as explorers and adventurers sailed to South America, Africa and Asia and its city merchants developed the lucrative wine trade with England in the seventeenth century.
		Porto enjoys some lively eating and drinking - the local delicacy is tripe - and you can sample 100s of varieties of port wine at the upmarket Solar do Vinho do Porto.
	www.soccerphile.com /soccerphile/port2004/city_guide/porto.html (470 words)

	Porto Information
		He managed to establish FC Porto as one of the most powerful European football clubs and reduce the influence of the Lisbon clubs, which was notorious during António de Oliveira Salazar's Dictatorship.
		Pinto da Costa is not the only charismatic figure in the recent history of FC Porto: Jose Mourinho coached Porto to a victory in the 2003 UEFA Cup (beating Celtic in the final in Seville) and their magnificent 2004 Champions League triumph which was clinched with a victory over Monaco.
		Porto is also home to the North of Portugal's only cricket club, and possibly the oldest European cricket club outside of the British Isles, the Oporto Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club.
	www.bookrags.com /Porto (2948 words)

	Porto - World Travel Guide
		The Porto metro is being gradually built right now, adding lines and causing major hurldes to the city's traffic...
		Porto is famous for the eponymous port wine, a fortified wine (20%) made by adding brandy to the wine before distillation is complete.
		Porto is generally a safe place to be, if you take some precautions like walking in good iluminated streets, keeping your money to yourself and don't show off.
	www.world-travel-guide.net /index.php?title=Porto (1069 words)

	portugaloffer.com / Transports & Distribution / Metro do Porto
		Metro do Porto SA, the company running Oporto’s light metro transit system, operates the most modern and principal mode of transportation in the Oporto Metropolitan Area.
		Metro do Porto symbolizes a new concept in public transportation, a modern reality, and an extraordinary engine for developing the Oporto Metropolitan Area and Portugal.
		Metro do Porto allies speed and operacionality to a strong component of urban and landscape renovation, thereby upgrading and enhancing the region.
	www.portugaloffer.com /metro_porto/index.html (252 words)

	Porto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is the seat of the Porto district and capital of the Norte region.
		Porto is the heart of Greater Porto agglomeration.
		Porto is the national recordist of tuberculosis positive cases.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DPorto%26type%3Den (2891 words)

	BUG - Backpackers Guide to budget travel in Porto, Braga and Viana, Northern Portugal
		Porto's main train station is Estação Campanhã, which handles trains to destinations throughout Portugal as well as international trains.
		Porto's stock exchange was built in the 19th century and is worth visiting for the impressive Sala Árabe (Arabian Hall) which tool 18 years to complete.
		Porto's Romanesque cathedral was built in the 12th and 13th centuries.
	www.bugeurope.com /destinations/pt-nort.html (896 words)

	Porto Metro - Definition, explanation
		The Porto Metro (Metro do Porto), part of the mass transit public transport system of Porto, Portugal, is a network of electrified railways that run underground in central Porto and above ground into the city's suburbs.
		The Porto Metro was founded in 2002, currently the major construction site in the European Union.
		It is a modern and open metro system, using a modern system of chip tickets, where the person does not need to take the ticket from ones wallet, just needing to put it in front of the scanner.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/po/porto_metro.php (628 words)

	Metro do Porto - A Vida em Movimento
		Estação: estação de Metro subterrânea, dotada de diversos equipamentos de apoio, serviços e máquinas de venda e carregamento de títulos de transporte.
		Metro do Porto, S.A.: a empresa, fundada em 1994, a quem o Estado Português concessionou a concepção, a construção e a exploração do Sistema de Metropolitano Ligeiro da Área Metropolitana do Porto.
		Esta, por sua vez, fornece energia ao metro.
	www.metrodoporto.pt /pagegen.asp?SYS_PAGE_ID=832451 (1068 words)

	world.nycsubway.org/Europe/Portugal/Porto: Metro
		The "second city" of Portugal, Porto, much of which has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage site and is home to the Port wine trade, is building a metro system, similar to light rail or "premetro" systems elsewhere in Europe.
		Milan, Italy, the first line of the metro (the blue line) consists of a tunnel through the city center and recaptured rail lines in the outskirts of the city.
		The metro will have exclusive use of the upper deck, however; and a new roadway bridge was built upriver to mitigate the loss of the upper level roadway on the Dom Luis bridge.
	world.nycsubway.org /eu/pt/portometro.html (278 words)

	Curacao, Nederlandse Antillen: porto metro links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Porto Metro (Metro do Porto), part of the mass transit public transport system of Porto, Portugal, is a network of electrified railways that run underground in central Porto and above ground into the...
		De metrostoel Eclipse is een comfortabele opklapbare stoel voor metro, lightrail en bus in Porto...
		Taxi’s zijn in Porto redelijk goedkoop en hun chauffeurs weten wel raad...
	www.curacaomall.com /porto+metro.html (201 words)

	Arquivo de documentação relevante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		FEUP is close to the Porto metro yellow line I.P.O. station.
		The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), where the MESO'2006 conference takes place, is located in the periphery of the city, but served by a metro station: yellow line I.P.O. station (approx.
		However, since FEUP is served by the metro, there is not really a need to stay close to FEUP; the metro ride from the centre of the city will take 15-25 minutes, depending where you are in the centre.
	paginas.fe.up.pt /~meso2006/Accom.htm (434 words)

	Where's Johnny Jet: Reporting from Porto \| Frommers.com
		The Porto airport is officially called "Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport" (named after a Portuguese politician killed in an airplane crash), but it is better known as "Aeroporto do Porto." The three-letter airport code is OPO.
		The official name of Portugal's second largest city (after Lisbon) is Porto, which translates to "port." OPorto is the English name that the British gave it because when they used to arrive at the entrance of the Douro river they were amazed by its beauty and they said "Oh Porto".
		Porto, located 172 miles north of Lisbon (about a 3-hour drive), is famous for its port wine (more on this later).
	www.frommers.com /rss/articles/3988.html (2833 words)

	Pestana Porto Hotel in Porto, Portugal
		The historic Pestana Porto Hotel is located in Porto, Portugal, in the heart of its UNESCO World Heritage area, across the River Douro from the port wine cellars of Vila Nova da Gaia, 300 metres away.
		Set in a 16th-century townhouse, the Pestana Porto Hotel was built on part of the city's medieval city walls.
		Porto's cathedral, Se, was built from the 12th to the 18th centuries and has a Gothic cloister with tiles depicting Solomon's Song of Songs.
	www.hotel-rates.com /portugal/porto/pestana-porto-hotel.html (693 words)

	Porto Metro \| Tunnels \| Mott MacDonald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Metro has been designed to revitalise public transport in the catchment area to Portugal's second largest city and serves over one million citizens.
		The €945 million system - financed by the city of Porto, the Portuguese Government and the EEC - connects seven municipalities by the largest metro network ever constructed at one time and comprises four lines, 70km of track and 66 stations.
		The other three lines originate from Senhora Da Hora in Matosinhos, to the west of Porto, and run eastwards to Campanha railway station, north-eastwards to the city of Trofa and north westwards to the city of Povoa.
	www.tunnels.mottmac.com /projects/?mode=region&id=1732 (355 words)

	UrbanRail.Net > South America > Brazil > Rio Grande do Sul > Porto Alegre Metro
		Porto Alegre lies in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul and has some
		The Porto Alegre Metrô is operated by TRENSURB and carries some 130.000 passengers daily.
		The Porto Alegre Metro operates from 5:00 to 23:20.
	www.urbanrail.net /am/ptal/porto-alegre.htm (267 words)

	Porto Getting Around
		The city's transport network has been upgraded recently with the implementation of a new light subway system, the Metro do Porto (www.metrodoporto.pt), from which the first four lines, the blue, red, yellow and green lines, are completed.
		Porto was the first city in the Iberian Peninsula to have a tram network, back in the 19th century.
		Bus operator STCP (www.stcp.pt) runs an extensive network, is efficient and ecological (it boasts the second larger fleet in europe running on natural gas!).
	www.world66.com /europe/portugal/oporto/gettingaround (429 words)

	Bombardier Wins $114 Million US Contract for 30 Light Rail Vehicles From the City of Porto, Portugal
		The new vehicles will be built for the suburban lines of the system and once they are in operation the Porto Metro will be able to improve its services to travellers.
		The first phase of Metro do Porto's new Light Rail Transit system was awarded in 1998 by Metro do Porto to the Normetro consortium, for the construction of 4 lines, 60 kilometres of track, 15 underground stations, 63 surface stations and 72 Bombardier FLEXITY Outlook vehicles.
		The Portuguese State Railways most modern commuter train fleets in the Lisbon and Porto regions, the entire fleet of the Lisbon Metro, the Porto Metro Light Rail Transit System and the Signalling Safety System of the entire Portuguese rail network are some fine examples of Bombardier's strong presence in Portugal.
	www.ccnmatthews.com /news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=597222 (746 words)

	Railway Technology - Metro do Porto Light Rail
		Porto, Portugal's second-largest city with a population of 1.2 million, has suffered for many years from an inadequate public transport system.
		The first plans to modernise Porto's transport infrastructure were formulated in the mid-1990s with the intention of reducing pressure on the city's streets and providing fixed links to neighbouring towns and villages.
		The decision was finally taken to create a 70km (43.5-mile) light rail network to open in its entirety by the end of 2004.
	www.railway-technology.com /projects/metro_porto (826 words)

	TheTravelzine.com Portugal Fall 2006
		The Metro was connected to Gaia with the conversion of the top level of the D. Luis I bridge from vehicle traffic to rail lines and pedestrian sidewalks that allow for super views of the city and the river.
		The rotunda and its historical park is close to the old city center and a dividing spot between the old and newer contemporary suburbs to the west, the immediate surrounding area is in transition.
		We got on the Metro D-Yellow line at Sao Bento and took it over the Ponte D. Luis I, where we had previously walked, to the end of the line, the Joao de Deus stop, at which there is a large enclosed shopping mall.
	www.thetravelzine.com /pt_2006_1.htm (5167 words)

	Bombardier / Transportation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Bombardier Transportation, a partner in the Normetro Consortium, welcomes Porto Metro's decision to start passenger service with three Eurotram Porto light rail vehicles on a 7-km section of the new transit system's first line for the City of Porto.
		The Porto Metro network is the largest complete transportation system currently under construction in Europe.
		The complete system will operate with a fleet of 72 Eurotram Porto 100% low-floor light rail vehicles and is designed to transport 20,300 passengers per hour per direction.
	www.transportation.bombardier.com /en/1_0/1_0_0_74_p.html (263 words)

	Porto overview, quick facts and getting around -Porto Travel Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Porto is one of the most charming cities in Portugal.
		For International travel or just long distance travelling in Porto, the trains are perhaps the most a convenient mode of transportation in Porto.
		Porto has a highly efficient bus service that runs to many locations.
	www.porto-guide.com /travel/Overview (206 words)

	Oporto Metro - Metro do Porto
		The Oporto Metro system is operated by Metro do Porto S.A., a body in which the local regional council and STCP (Sociedade de Transportes Colectivos do Porto), which operates the city's bus system, both have a share.
		It remains a building site in 2005 though the Metro platforms are (summer 2005) in use behind hoardings in a newly built two-level Metro station; the lower level provides a tunnel connection to the main line station at Campanhã, which lies an inconvenient distance east of the city centre.
		Another instance of cooperation between different modes of transport is the bus interchange at Casa da Música metro station, adjacent to the former main STCP tram shed at Boavista.
	www.altrinchamfc.co.uk /opometro.htm (905 words)

	Luso Pages - Oporto (Portugal) Transport
		In Portuguese, the city is known as Porto, the English form of its name derives from the use of the Portuguese definite article "o" in front of the city's name in certain circumstances.
		A new Metro do Porto light-rail system is now in operation.
		On 22 May 2001 the first of 72 light-rail cars for the Metro do Porto was unveiled at Massarelos and street-running trials of the new vehicles began in June 2002 A revenue service started on 1 January 2003.
	www.lusa.u-net.com /oporto.htm (895 words)

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