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Welcome to Porto, 2024!

The streets of Porto were once again the chosen place by thousands of people to welcome the new year. Among concerts, fireworks, hugs, wishes and renewed hopes, 2024 arrived the city partying.

Thousands of people in Aliados to see the traditional inauguration of the Christmas tree

Not even the, occasional, rain that fell last night, scared away thousands of people from the inauguration of the traditional Christmas Tree, located in front of the building of the Porto City Hall, and the typical lighting of this season, that extends, this year, on more than 90 streets and squares in the city. The night got even brighter with the performance of Diogo Piçarra, in Avenida dos Aliados.

Large affluence of public to appreciate camelias at Alfândega

On the 5 and 6 March, Alfândega do Porto was transformed in a real garden to host the city’s always cherished Camelia Exhibition once again. Present in all the gardens – public and private – what many call “the most perfect of flowers” was celebrated with a market, but also with dance, theatre, and prizes.

Green and leisure spaces benefited with fitness equipment and basketball hoops

Porto City Hall has invested around 640 thousand euros in fitness equipment, to which were added 100 thousand more in the requalification and placement of 15 basketball hoops in sports venues for this purpose. These are real outdoor gyms. Spread all over the city, inviting people to exercise.

Ramalde Skate Park is now bigger and has new features

Two years after its opening, Ramalde's Skate Park has been expanded. Integrated in the Ramalde Sports Park, the space increased from 950 square meters to an area of 1550 square meters, with new features and more potential for the athletes. In 2020 and 2021, these sports grounds had almost five thousand registrations in classes and scheduled activities and more than a thousand athletes or simply curious people in free training.

Salgueiros enters the pitch with CROA dogs for adoption

In the football match between Sport Comércio e Salgueiros and Clube Desportivo de Gouveia, played at Complexo Desportivo de Campanhã, on the 16thJanuary, the stars of the game were the four-legged friends. Fully equipped, they entered the pitch with the players of the mythic club from the city of Porto, brightening up a match. The action had as main goal raising awareness of the population to the conscious and responsible adoption of these animals available in Centro de Recolha Oficial de Anima

Warm colors for cold days on the Mural Coletivo da Restauração

The 14 modules of the supporting wall of the Palácio de Cristal Garden have a renewed face, exhibiting the new works selected as part of the Programa de Arte Urbana.The call for artistic interventions established the use of a common palette for all artists, to create a visual homogeneity on the mural. For this version, warm colours were suggested, as way to provide warmth and soothe the cold days.