After being voted Best City Destination in Europe 2022, Porto now integrates the finalists for the world awards in the categories “World's Leading City Destination” and “World's Leading Heritage City Destination”.
The map of SBM Offshore, a Dutch multinational that designs, builds, installs and operates floating facilities that produce a large part of the world's oil, now relies on Porto.
The initiative was part of the Champion Mayors Initiative for Inclusive Growth, of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), regarding Bloomberg CityLab 2022.
The Mayor of Porto was present at the Champion Mayors Initiative for Inclusive Growth, of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
There was also a Way of the Cross, led by young people from the parishes of the city, lived by more than half a thousand worshippers and preceded by a special celebration with homeless people in the Church of the Santíssima Trindade.
Porto was elected Europe’s Leading City Destination 2022, on the 29th edition of the World Travel Awards (WTA), a ceremony that took place last night, in Palma de Mallorca (Spain). The award, which once again places the city in the elite of the best European destinations, was received by the councillor for Tourism and Internationalization, Catarina Santos Cunha.
The first stage of works of Matadouro de Campanhã is complete. The construction work, conducted by the company Mota Engil, included the cleaning of the area, demolitions, earthmoving, and the drilling of existing structures, in addition to experimenting materials to be used in the reconstruction of the building. The Japanese architect Kengo Kuma visited this iconic project, carried out in partnership with the award-winning Portuguese architects of OODA.
The European Commission selected Porto to take part in the Mission Adaptation to Climate Change, placing it back at the forefront of cities with better environmental policies.
