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Douro cruise from Porto to Pinhao |
Leaving Porto, the boat passes under some of the famous high level bridges. The ubanisation of Porto is quickly left behind and the steep banks have villages and riverside homes.
As the journey takes place, the boat is raised by a series of locks, some being the highest in Europe. These locks and the dams through which they go have tamed the river from the dangerous rapids which sank many yachts when the river was used for wine transport.Later the railway line runs alongside the river for its journey upstream. The arrival of the raiilway resulted in all the wine being carried by train and the carriage downriver by ship stopped. In recent years, the wine has been moved downstream by road tanker. The river passes through the demarcated port wine region of steeply terraced hills and mountains and white painted quintas past Regua to Pinhao from where we return to Porto by train. |
| Index of Douro cruises | Accommodation in the Oporto (Porto) area |
| Pousada de Porto - Palacio do Freixo |
| Hotel Infante Sagres |
| Pestana Porto Hotel |
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