Although technically a Second City is simply a nation’s second most populous city, the term also implies inferiority and second-class status.
After being hit heartbreakingly hard by the recession, Porto is witnessing a phenomenal wave of new tourists who seek out its more unconventional features.
There’s a dreamlike quality to Porto – a tumbledown, romantic city of stately beaux-arts buildings – and further afield is the beautiful wine country of Alto Douro.
Portugal’s second largest city is tumbledown and artistic, historic and young, full of nightlife, graffiti art and classic flavours.
