Traveling Tolins 2

Porto lends its name to the nation’s port wine.  Located amid the rocky embankment carved by the Douro River, the city boasts narrow cobblestone streets brimming with romantic buildings spanning the centuries.  Portugal’s second largest city is also its most authentic, where port wine mixes beautifully with strolls past historic architecture.  Shops up and down the lanes of the historic Old Town invite endless window shopping and browsing.  However, the imposing Romanesque Cathedral commands more than just a passing glance with its ornate and towering façade.  Along the Douro River, the prosperous fate of Porto was sealed with the barcos rabelos delivered the first wine shipments here from vineyards upriver.  These vessels still bob with the current.  Across the river, and over the distinctive 19 th -century Dom Luis I Bridge, cellars of 58 companies fortify the prized wine that is still produced in the Douro Valley.  Porto is the financial capital in Portugal with the forth high