#walking in porto

[legitedigiulia]

HYPNOTIC AZULEJO

The Igreja do Carmo, Porto

june 2022 When in the shade of a majestic facade cover in azulejo tiles everything turn blue in the beautiful city of Porto.

https://www.portugalvisitor.com/porto-churches/carmo-carmelitas

[biostatprof]

Porto housing on the Ribeira (riverfront), Cais da Estiva A whole lotta airbnb's most likely.

[besteayaz]

[vrillador]

Sunset

[obsessivecompulsivedelicious]

Walls of history

07 2022 @São Bento Railway Station, Porto

[reallunargift]

evolution of a post

me: wow I wanna post about the portuguese guitar

me: i’ll probably need some audio examples

me: it’s so cool how you pair up the portuguese guitar with the spanish one in fado

me: man i feel like listening to desfolhada portuguesa now

me: man i love eurovision

me: I wanna post my eurovision top 5 songs, port edition

me: i should probably link eng translations of the songs

me: ah but will they explain the cultural notes

me: man i also wanna talk about these cultural refs though

me: maybe i should make a post about moiras encantadas

me: i should probably finish reading that book on port folk creatures, actually

me: but i also wanna finish that book of essays on medieval portugal i bought at that used bookshop in porto

me: man i love porto

me: maybe i should post about porto

[jeffreyalanhenderson]

Portugal.

[simajviews]

Porto Santo, Madeira, Portugal🇵🇹

[thingsdavidlikes]

"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light" by josebrito21

[ines-silva-tantramassage]

Fórnea from up the mountain. A walk in nature.

[legitedigiulia]

Talking Tiles

Porto, Portugual

june 2022 If you don’t know what to do in Porto just walk around. The amount of colorful, elaborate geometries, two-tone facade and intricate railings of houses covered in decorative tiles is impressive and will take all of your attention.

[kaibutsushidousha]

Basic summary of the news about yesterday's far-right terrorist attack so people outside Brazil are properly informed of the situation.

The culprit, Francisco Wanderley Luiz, was 59-year-old keymaker. In the most recent elections, he ran for congressman by PL (same political party as former president Jair Bolsonaro) and lost the popular vote.

A few days before the attack, he posted veiled threats on Facebook, and one very explicit message namedropping 4 public figures around Joe Biden's level of leftism, which he refers to as "the shitty commies" and telling "you icky old men have 72 hours to disarm the bomb in your houses. The game begins on November 13 17:48 and ends at the 16th" accompanied by a comical amount of bomb emojis.

After the threatening messages, the terrorist wrote the phrase "for shit statues, you use dynamite" on his house's mirror, put on a suit themed after The Joker and drove his car on a 24h10min trip from Porto Alegre to Brasilia. He arrived at the Supreme Court, made a thumbs up sign to a group of confused witnesses in a nearby bus stop, and walked toward the Supreme Court's statue.

He threw a bomb at statue, which bounced off Looney Tunes style and hit the terrorist's head, killing him instantly. No one was harmed by the terrorist attack except for the culprit.

According to acquaintances, the incident happened because the culprit was emotionally disturbed by his divorce.

Linked below is an excerpt from the culprit's TikTok, in which he uses a prophetic amount of explosion effect on his own face.

[pilgrimsandprophets]

Learning to Walk 17

Between a laugh and a tear...

CAMINHO PORTUGUÊS – PORTO (42,048 STEPS – 32.29 KMS – 20.05 MILES) “Sometimes life is too ridiculous to live.” – John Mellencamp, Between a Laugh and a Tear, from the Scarecrow album The Good First Half (The Laugh) Your assignment for today is to click on the link above and listen to the song. It is a fine collection of words and sounds… The Suburban Stroll The first half of the day was…

[obsessivecompulsivedelicious]

Walking Santa Catarina

07 2022 @Majestic Café, Porto

[maiteo]

golo de namasoooo

[wonderjourneys]

The Dom Luis I bridge in the city of Porto - Portugal.

In the wonderful city of Porto the famous Luis I Bridge is located pretty much in the centre of Porto (Unesco World Heritage Site). Video shot in March 2022 by WonderJourneys Music by: Scott Buckley - Castle In The Sky

Enjoy the anime / ghibli vibe of the scenery.

Some background: In 1879, Gustave Eiffel presented a project to construct a new bridge over the Douro, with a high single deck in order to facilitate ship navigation. This project was rejected due to dramatic growth of the urban population, which required a re-thinking of the limits of a single-deck platform.

A competition was initiated in November 1880, in order to construct a double-deck metal bridge, which included projects by Compagnie de Fives-Lille, Cail & C., Schneider & Co., Gustave Eiffel, Lecoq & Co., Société de Braine-le-Comte, Société des Batignolles (which submitted two ideas), Andrew Handyside & Co., Société de Construction de Willebroek (also two projects) and John Dixon. It was in January of the following year that deliberations by the committee supported the project of Société de Willebroek and provided better-carrying capacity.

On 21 November 1881, the public work was awarded to the Belgian Société de Willebroek, from Brussels, for 402 contos. It was to be administrated by Théophile Seyrig, a disciple of Gustave Eiffel and author of the project. Seyrig had worked on the D. Maria bridge with Eiffel, hence the resemblance of his new bridge to the D. Maria bridge. Construction began on the Ponte Luís I alongside the towers of an earlier railway suspension bridge, the Ponte Pênsil, which was disassembled.

By 26 May 1886, the first weight experiments began, with the transport of a 2,000 kilograms (4,400 lb) per metre. On 30 October construction of the main arch and upper deck were concluded, resulting in its inauguration the very next day.[2] On 1 November, a toll system began to operate under the administration of the winning company, that was equal to 4 reís per person. The following year the lower deck was inaugurated, completing the project. During its ceremonies, the bridge was blessed by Bishop D. Américo.

By the turn of the century (1908) electric carriages were installed in the city centre, extending to the bridge.

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