Choose a luxury hotel in Porto with Small Luxury Hotels of the World to discover stunning contemporary architecture and exclusive port wines. Cobbled streets lead to stone-built hilltop cathedrals and traditional wooden rabelo boats create foaming trails of bubbles in the slow-flowing River Douro.
Luxury things to do in Porto
The white anvil-shaped Casa da Musica is an ultra modern concert hall designed by Rem Koolhaas. Take your front row seat to be enraptured by famous Fado stars staging their emotional, guitar-led performances. Your private launch floats along the grape-speckled river valley that connects Porto with Portugal’s mountainous interior. Sail under the huge metal arch of the Dom Luís I bridge that was built by a partner the famous Gustave Eiffel.
Luxury art in Porto
Fragrant landscaped gardens surround the minimalist Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. Take a private tour through its stark white galleries to absorb the vivid paintings and watch video installations by celebrated Portuguese contemporary artists like Grazia Toderi. Twenty thousand intricate blue and white azulejo tiles adorn the walls of soaring cathedral-like São Bento Railway Station.
Gourmet Porto
Sip warm and fruity glasses of port at century-old boutique wine lodges on the gorge-like banks of the River Douro. You’ll savour delicately seasoned Porto sausages with creamy local butter beans at a restaurant on a fountain-studded square in the heart of the medieval Ribeira. The delicious aroma of salt cod bacalhau leads to the Mercado do Bolhão, Porto’s gourmet food market.
Holiday in a luxury hotel in Porto with Small Luxury Hotels of the World to experience a city punctuated by Romanesque spires. You’ll stay in an ornate baroque-style edifice on Avenidados Aliados in Porto’s heart or in an exclusive boutique spa hotel surrounded by vineyards.