Alfândega Porto Congress Centre
The Porto Customshouse Congress Centre ( pt, Centro de Congressos da Alfândega) is a convention centre and former-customshouse situated in the Freguesia (Portugal), civil parish in Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the northern Portugal, Portuguese Concelho, municipality of Porto. The building is located in the historic centre of the city, along the bank of the Douro River, and was renovated under the direction of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, Pritzker-awarded architect Eduardo Souto de Moura. It is part of the Museum of Transport and Communication, founded on 21 February 1992, as a non-profit institution comprising 56 individual associates and 25 institutional associates. History In 1822, António José Borges, merchant in Porto, presented six plans for an urban solution for a new customshouse. Following a governmental decree on 18 July 1834, the ''Administração Geral das Alfândegas do Norte'' (''North General-Administration for Cus ...
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Porto
Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropolitan area, with an estimated population of just 231,800 people in a municipality with only 41.42 km2. Porto's metropolitan area has around 1.7 million people (2021) in an area of ,Demographia: World Urban Areas
March 2010 making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a global city with a Gamma + rating from the
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