PORTO SUNSET
FREE TOUR

To complete your best of Porto in one day journey, you may close the day with our Porto Sunset Free Tour. This free tour will open your heart to Porto’s soul and the culture of its people, the famous Tripeiros. This other side of Porto will finish your list of Porto’s top attractions in one single day. This Take Porto free walking tour is incredibly eclectic and covers the foundation of the city up until the XX century and the guide will have dozens of stories to share about our ways and traditions. We’ll start our afternoon Porto free tour at the same Town Hall at Avenida dos Aliados but this time we will go back even further, to the time when the fairs and markets were held here. Yes, commerce was always one of the inhabitants of Porto main features. This Porto free walking tour could not miss the some of the city’s most emblematic spots like the Café A Brasileira, the Sá da Bandeira theater and the Rivoli theater before arriving at the commercial district of Santa Catarina. It’s impossible to mention this district without presenting Porto’s most famous market, the Mercado do Bolhão. Although under serious renovations, there are many stories and anecdotes to be told that will reveal the great spirit of this city. Just in front of the market stands one of Porto’s oldest stores, the Pérola do Bolhão. The story of its founder is the story of every Tripeiro and the pulse and energy of Porto. Wandering around Santa Catarina's district our Porto free tour could not miss the ecstatic Capela das Alma or the renowned Café Majestic, Porto’s finest example of Art Nouveau architecture and the biggest rival to the Clérigos church, the church of Santo Ildefonso with its 11.000 panel of blue tiles that remember the São Bento train station by no accident, the author Jorge Colaço is the same. Get ready to be completely astonished by the most charismatic district of Porto, "the island" as it is called here, the singular Bairro Herculano. Here, the best night of São João in the whole city is celebrated on the night of the 23rd of July.  ​ As we approach the end of the tour, there’s still time to visit the a piece of the ancient Fernandine Wall originally built in the XIV century. We saved the best for last. The guide will cross with you the Luís I bridge and end the tour at the Miradouro do Teleférico in Gaia. Trust us this will be one of the favorite moments of your stay in Porto.  This is without a doubt another amazing walking tour in Porto and as you can see we go by many of the must see places to see in Porto. Take our Alternative Porto Free Tour so you may feel the vibrancy of this city like we do.