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Northern Portugal ​((pt)Região do Norte)
the Douro south of Porto
Information
Country	Portugal
Regional capital	Port
Ocean	North Atlantic
Watercourse	Minho, Douro, Lima
Minimum altitude	0 m
Maximum altitude	1 548 m (Nevosa peak)
Area	21 278 km²
Population	3 689 173 hab. (2011)
Density	173,38 inhab./km²
Official language	Portuguese, Mirandais
Spindle	UTC ± 00: 00
Location
41 ° 22 ′ 1 ″ N 7 ° 37 ′ 44 ″ W
Touristic site
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the Northern Portugal is the tourist region located north of Portugal, the main city of the region is Port. It is, historically, the cradle of the nation.

Understand

Tourist information

• 41.6887-8.83861 Tourist Office (Turismo do Porto and Norte de Portugal) Castelo Santiago da Barra, 4900-360 Viana do Castelo,   351 258 820270, e-mail : [email protected]  Mon.- Fri. : 9 h - 18 h. –  (last update March 2020)

Cities

• 41.26666667-8.083333331 Amaranth  (last update Feb. 2018)
• 41.5505-8.42492 Braga  – nicknamed the "City of Archbishops" or "Portuguese Rome" due to its large number of churches (last update May 2018)
• 41.8-6.753 Braganza  (last update May 2018)
• 41.5336-8.7814 Esposende  (last update May 2018)
• 41.445-8.29083333333335 Guimarães  – The city historically associated with the foundation and identity of Portuguese nationality. (last update May 2018)
• 41.100833-7.816 Lamego  (last update May 2018)
• 41.157-8.6167 Port  – The regional capital. (last update May 2018)
• 41.30021-7.739858 Vila Real  (last update May 2018)
• 41.6956-8.83329 Viana do Castelo  (last update May 2018)

Other destinations

• 41.28638889-7.788055561 Bisalhães  – Historical center of the production of black pottery. (last update March 2020)
• 41.5167-6.66672 Meseta Ibérica  – Common cross-border park withSpain (last update March 2020)
• 41.81841-8.415533 Minho  – The historic region of the County of Portugal, the future Kingdom of Portugal. (last update March 2020)
  • 41.8268-8.22714 Peneda-Gerês National Park  –  (last update Dec. 2019)
• 41.03333333-7.116666675 Côa Valley  – Most important Upper Paleolithic open-air rock art site in all of Europe. The site straddles northern Portugal and the Central portugal. (last update March 2020)
• 41.199886322021-7.53412103652956 Vineyard of the Upper Douro Valley  – Where the port wine and the Douro wine. It is also the oldest demarcated wine region in the world. (last update March 2020)

To go

By plane

• 41.235556-8.6780561 Porto Sá Carneiro Airport (IATA : OPO, ICAO: LPPR, Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport) (11 km north of Porto) – Renovated in 2004 and completed in 2006, in 11 km from downtown Port. (last updated Apr 2015)

Circulate

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To buy

Eat

Have a drink / Go out

Security

Around

Clockwise from the north.

• In Spain
  • 41.889-8.1447 Baixa Limia-Serra do Xuré Natural Park (Baixa Limia-Serra do Xuré Natural Park) (North) – National park Galicia in Spain which forms with the Peneda-Gerês National Park, the Gerês-Xuré cross-border park, classified since 2009 as UNESCO biosphere reserve (last update March 2020)
  • 42.235833333333-8.72666666666678 Vigo (North) (last update March 2020)
  • 42.883333333333-8.53333333333339 Santiago de Compostela (North) –  (last update March 2020)
• 40.637-8.64910 Aveiro (At the South-East) – Sometimes nicknamed the "Portuguese Venice" (last update March 2020)

Destinations bordering northern Portugal in Wikivoyage