Campo Da Constituição
Campo da Constituição ( en, Constitution Field) was a football stadium in Porto, Portugal, which served as the home ground of FC Porto between 1913 and 1952. Located in the ''Rua da Constituição'' (Constitution Street), it was Porto's second ground, after the club moved out of the Campo da Rainha. History In 1912, Porto's first ground, the Campo da Rainha, no longer supported the club's growing demands and attendances, so the board searched for a site to build a larger stadium. The estate was leased by a yearly fee of 350 ''escudos''. The ground was officially opened on 26 January 1913 with a tournament between Porto, Benfica, Oporto Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club and Real Fortuna, which saw Benfica emerge as winners. The growth implied a new ground, the first guidelines appeared in 1933. While the new stadium was being studied (took until 1948 before the estate was chosen and bought), the Campo da Constituição was used and upgraded in 1938 with wooden boxes and a new stan ...
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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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