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Every year in October the Porto Marathon is held through the streets of the old city of Porto.

The region around Porto Novo produces palm oil, cotton and kapok.

According to 2011 figures, 12.7 of all houses in the Greater Porto area is vacant, and it is even higher to 18.8 inside the municipality of Porto.

Ouando Market, in Porto Novo, Benin via Babylas CC BY SA 30

More than anywhere else in Portugal, Porto is turning into a ghost town.

Both Caiado and Constatino are veteran participants in the Liberty Forum in Porto Alegre.

The first hours of my stay in Porto left me a great impression of the city.

After a worst tour , he wrote on his blog about Porto, a ghost town in the making

That was the case of Eva V., who wrote on her blog after a trip to Porto

It is located south of the city of Porto on the other side of the Douro River.

Portuguese language editor Manuel Ribeiro from Porto, Portugal, said his avó Júlia Oliveira made a slightly sweeter cough syrup

Thousands of people saw it, and one of them was the urbanist Manual Sola Morales who was redesigning the waterfront in Porto, Portugal.

First of all, we want to finish top in our pool, ahead of Porto, to have home advantage in the last 16 match.

Porto Velho, Rondonia, where the Santo Antonio and Jirau plant is located, registered a significant rise in the violence indices after construction work began.

Enter The Worst Tours, a low rated tours agency for those who wish to look beyond the shiny surface of Porto, the second largest city in Portugal

On July 2013, the mayor violently evicted poor people from their homes at the Fontaínhas neighbourhood in Porto, then someone painted solidarity grafitti on the abandoned houses.

For a country whose most important cities, Porto Novo and Cotonou, are located near the laguna or along the seaside, the potential for catastrophic scenarios cannot be dismissed.

Comba Marques Porto, on Consciência feminista (Feminist conscience) , argues that the home, where the most intimate interpersonal relations take place, is also the stage where subtle gender discrimination occurs.

Flights to the islands are mostly made from Lisbon and Porto, but there are also direct flights from other major European cities and other countries, such as Cape Verde and Venezuela.

They are called the Isles of the Blessed... The estimated distance from Africa, , and the closeness of the two islands, seem to describe the similar position of the islands of Madeira and Porto Santo.

Previously, Brazil had set the stage for the first edition of the WSFM in 2005, in Porto Alegre, a city that had also hosted the first edition of the annual, larger World Social Forum in 2001.

We also have now the support of big Portuguese companies either for donations and to help with the logistics like storing and transport. We will have 3 warehouses in Porto, Leiria, and Lisbon where everything will be stored.

Global Voices author Stanislas Jourdan visited the city and was deeply impacted by the paralyzed housing market, the lack of opportunities for people as unemployment grows, and the figures of emigration ( the city of Porto has lost 65,000 inhabitants since the 1990s , he says).

Named by Lonely Planet as the top 10 European travel destination for 2013, the city of Porto in the north of Portugal has emerged as a vibrant arts capital that s rightfully getting a lot of buzz as a great value destination , according to the travel guide publisher.

In an interview for the Sustainability Stories blog, they say that one of their most popular tours goes into the typical islands of Porto, a type of collective housing that appeared with the Industrial Revolution as a way of accommodating the cheap labour arriving to the city .