Casa Museu Fernando De Castro
Visiting only by booking, the Casa Museu Fernando de Castro (Fernando de Castro's House Museum) is a historical house, located in the city of Porto, Portugal, that belonged to Fernando de Castro, a Portuguese poet, caricaturist, merchant and collector. It contains several paintings from the 17th to the 20th century, sculptures and ceramic pieces. The museum is now under administration of the Soares dos Reis National Museum. History Born in 1889 into a family of wealthy merchants, Fernando de Castro inherited a partnership from his father in a commercial company, with shops and offices in several parts of Porto. However, de Castro was not very fond of administrative and business affairs. He dedicated himself to writing and drawing, producing a vast number of cartoons and caricatures. He also published some verse and prose works. De Castro was also an eager collector and lover of art, managing to gather several national and international pieces spanning from the 17th to the 20th cen ...
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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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