About Oporto and North Region

  The North region is a place of tradition and costumes, considered to be the “Cradle of Portugal”, where are located the districts of Viana do Castelo, Porto, Braga, Vila Real, Bragança and part of the Viseu, Aveiro and Guarda districts. The region is bordered on the northern and eastern sides with Spain, on the western part with the Atlantic ocean, and on the southern side with the Central Region. The Northern region has an extensive area, with quite different realities in its territory, with developed modern towns and small rural villages lost somewhere among the mountains.…Read more and see photos