Description Viana do Castelo

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Viana do Castelo is the northernmost Atlantic city in Portugal, about 25 minutes from Porto International Airport.

Served by functional motorways and a sea port, it is easy and convenient to reach the city, where visitors can enjoy a remarkable quality of life, either through the tranquility and security of their urban living or by the wealth of their heritage natural, monumental and historical, as well as excellent cultural, sports and social facilities.

The presence of the river, the mountain and the sea, give the city excellent landscapes that enchant the senses, provide a psychological climate of decompression and are conducive to the healthy and pleasant occupation of leisure.

An urban transport network, which includes small electric buses circulating in the streets of the medieval center, discourages the use of the individual car and favors environmental quality. The Ring Road around the city's oldest nucleus and the distribution of several underground car parks along this road, alleviate the medieval area of ??the car park to the surface, away from the noble area of ??the city and facilitating, pedestrian mobility.

The city also has a good hotel capacity, which is growing fast, both to welcome tourists and to host congresses, seminars and other tourism, business or study meetings, conditions that are supported by the existence of modern and functional auditoriums for these meetings.

A set of modernized cultural spaces - theaters, cinemas, library, museums - provides conditions for cultural enrichment to residents and visitors, while the presence of the river and the sea offers special conditions of welcome to recreational sailboats and the practice of all modalities of water sports

The unparalleled wealth of Vianese ethnography, which makes the city the capital of Portuguese folklore, the originality and functionality of its crafts, with special emphasis on crockery and embroidery, assiduous and qualified cultural animation, are other attributes that make Viana do Castle is an extremely attractive city for all tourism.

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