A Day in Oporto – trendy city

Rua Miguel Bombarda
 

9.30 Breakfast with a view
Have breakfast at the hotel Eurostars Das Artes (1) (Rua do Rosário, 160; www.eurostarshotels.com, double, from 89 euros), an austere and modern four star hotel with a facade of blue tiles and a relaxing garden, as the many buildings that are in the neighborhood. Should visit their sunroom, review last mail and breathe: that calm will disappear once you walk out the door.  

10.00 The sidewalk gallery

Rua Miguel Bombarda is one of Europe's most street art galleries and avant-garde Multiespacios per square meter. First stop: Process you Home Design (2) (number 584), a gallery shop vintage decor with original furniture from Louis Poulsen. Serves Mendanha Artur, one of the drivers of the business area, which advises us on the path of the new art Luso. On the sidewalk, a gallery after another without rest: Presença (3) (570), with works of great art and Brazilian Portuguese, like photographers Helena Almeida and Miguel Rio Branco; Serpente (4) (in 558 ) for new artistic values; Quadrado Azul (5) (553), with international proposals and facilities infarction; Reflexus (6) (531), art photography and performance art.

 

11.30 The artist of the new seam

Eye of the streets perpendicular to Miguel Bombarda, art and design expand as oil stains on the margins. In the Rua Adolfo Casais Monteiro is Nuno Gama's Store (7) (101), one of Portugal's most famous designers in Spain and with few outlets in our country. This is important even with horn-rimmed glasses, studded belts and Converse sneakers, the environment demands it. The styling can be completed in Miau Frou Frou (8) (Michael Bombard, 416), a shop with clothes and anonymous young Portuguese designers. From necklaces to dress balloon thousand pieces.

12.30 An organic snack
Take a break in the perpendicular Rua do Rosário. The neighborhood becomes a more popular, shops and cafes, but the smell of resisting modernity. We stopped at Quintal (9) (Rosário, 177) for a 100% organic snack. Everything is echoed, until the cups of mud in which they serve you tea. A few more numbers there in the 274, Rua do Rosário, Madame Janvier - J is a disk space with bold, original vintage clothing and hair pins with images of the fifties. This is also art.

13.30 pictorial Tapas

For lunch, the restaurant bar Gallery 110 (11) (Do Rosário, 110). Luso modern Tapas style between old couches, chairs recycled and paintings by artists from the neighborhood. A simple scenario for garlic shrimp or cod salad. The account is discrete, such as local, about 20 euros per head. At night you can find live music.

15.30 The total space

In No. 274, Rua do Rosário is Wohh! (12) a usual signature of the trendy shops of London and Berlin. Clothes for shopaholics. But it is in muud (13) (Rosário, 294; www.muuda.com) where we understand that art is also sewn, is puckered and has pattern. In this beautiful, modern space (Artesabores & design are called) you can try clothes by young designers Portuguese (Ana Salazar, Alexandra Moura, Ricardo Dourado ...), the walls serve as gallery (exhibition change every month), and you can eat in an adjoining room (subject). 

17.00 The exclusive furniture Return to the starting point. Rua Miguel Bombarda continues to fuel the desire for the avant-garde. Carisma (14) (141) is great for those who lose the head with designer furniture or wish to illustrate the walls of your home with new names of art. Here presented Patricia Correia, Hugo Silva or Célia Dias, Portuguese sounding increasingly biennial art and design. Do not know if the pieces are sculptures and lamps. Topping the route Trindade (15) (200), which sponsors artists Lusos at very attractive prices. 

18.30 Pop Gallos

At the mall Bombarda (16) the name does not do justice to what's inside. It is true that international fashion shops, but also the core of meeting people in the neighborhood: just drink a soda in the halls, taking the sun on your indoor garden or buy a T-shirt. The new, colorful handicrafts Water Furtado (Loja, 4) debunks the traditional porcelain figure of a cock Portuguese, and Piurra (loja 26) sell furniture winding. 

 

20.30 Dinner in plan 'indie'

At the end of the street is bustling youth. It Rota do Cha (17) (www.rotadocha.pt; Miguel Bombarda, 457), a tearoom, shop and restaurant on two floors. The place is home to the decoration, and costs to discern whether you're in a Portuguese home oriental inspiration or a cultural center of New York's Soho indie. Streamed fashion victims. In the letter, vegetarian options, but also have good fish. Finally, a tea, of course, and all for 30 euros. 

 

22.00 A blue cocktail Picasso
In Porto you are installing the culture of a drink in a hotel. Capping the night for artists: the Infanta Sagres (18) (Filipa de Lencastre, 62; www.hotelinfantesagres.pt, double, from 140 euros). The atmosphere is sophisticated, and the cocktail, blue Picasso (10 euros), that's why we take a day surrounded by art.

 

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