Crossword clues for porto
porto
- Lisboa's sister city
- ___ Novo (Benin's capital)
- With 5-Across, a Caribbean island, formerly
- Brazil's ___ Alegre
- ___ Velho, Brazil
- ___-Novo (capital on the Gulf of Guinea)
- City north of Lisboa
- Port city in northwest Portugal
- Noted for port wine
- ___ Alegre, Brazilian seaport
- ___-Novo (capital of Benin)
- ___ Novo, Dahomey's capital
- European side left with no goals
Wikipedia
Porto (; also known as Oporto in English) is the second largest city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the Iberian Peninsula. The urban area of Porto, which extends beyond the administrative limits of the city, has a population of 1.4 million (2011) in an area of , making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. Porto Metropolitan Area, on the other hand, includes an estimated 1.8 million people. It is recognized as a gamma-level global city by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group, the only Portuguese city besides Lisbon to be recognised as a global city.
Located along the Douro river estuary in Northern Portugal, Porto is one of the oldest European centres, and its historical core was proclaimed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996. The western part of its urban area extends to the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. Its settlement dates back many centuries, when it was an outpost of the Roman Empire. Its combined Celtic- Latin name, Portus Cale, has been referred to as the origin of the name "Portugal", based on transliteration and oral evolution from Latin. In Portuguese, the name of the city is spelled with a definite article ("o Porto"; ). Consequently, its English name evolved from a misinterpretation of the oral pronunciation and referred to as Oporto in modern literature and by many speakers.
One of Portugal's internationally famous exports, port wine, is named for Porto, since the metropolitan area, and in particular the caves of Vila Nova de Gaia, were responsible for the packaging, transport and export of the fortified wine. In 2014, Porto was elected The Best European Destination by the Best European Destinations Agency.
Porto (from Latin portus, harbour, alternatively Oporto) may refer to a number of people, places, things and organisations:
Usage examples of "porto".
Gulf of Ancud lies Porto Montt, a resort town and cruise-ship port of call.
At the same time her people prepared to unmoor, and shortly after the last boat had been hoisted in, her eighteen-inch cables began to fill the tiers, bringing with them a great deal of water and the distinctive smell of Porto Praya ooze, which at least made a change in the stagnant fetor of the orlop.
Now the Leopard might have been sailing fresh from Porto Praya, apart from the fact that her decks were so thinly peopled.
November the Essex, after an uneventful voyage, anchored at Porto Praya, in the Cape Verdes, where she remained five days.
He provisioned her for the sea, and manned her with about 400 men, mostly soldiers from the Porto Bello forts.
It was now the 8th, and the two bomb ketches had to be watered, provisioned and anchored outside Porto Ercole by the 13th, when the frigates were due.
They shaped their course for Porto Bello, which had recovered something of its old wealth and beauty, in the years of peace it had enjoyed since Morgan sacked it.
Porto Ferrajo is celebrated among the mariners of the Mediterranean, and, should the Frenchman venture within reach of your shot, I expect to see him unrigged faster than if he were in a dock-yard.
George Edwards net wegreed bij het flatgebouw in Porto Rico waar Sofia Mendes woonde, werd dr.
Our only practical experience comes from the primitive bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that ludicrous Pakistani explosion and the single airburst that destroyed Porto Alegre and terminated the incident between Brazil and Argentina.
Appena ancorata i nostri amici videro scendere da Capo Liberi, piccolo villaggio che domina il porto, un gruppo di gente che giunse alla marina, imbarcossi in un palischermo e si diresse verso lo Yacht.
Panama and thence borne over the isthmus by mule-train to Porto Belo, where it is loaded on treasure-galleons for the passage back to Spain.
From the Canaries one of the pataches sailed on alone to Cartagena and Porto Bello, carrying letters and packets from the Court and announcing the coming of the fleet.
Mosquito Coast, the galleons, in making their course from Porto Bello to Havana, first sailed back to Cartagena upon the eastward coast eddy, so as to get well to windward of Nicaragua before attempting the passage through the Yucatan Channel.
No doubt The Watchmen had been ferried from their shore base to the drillship and were now loading the mother ship that would carry them with their canoes and equipment to within easy reach of Porto Santo.