We invite you to join us in all the social activities we organized for you.
All dinners are free for the congress participants, and we ask you to confirm your attendance with the forms bellow.
Please note that the Wednesday museum guided tours are also free but limited to the first 30 subscribers - please make your registration to this tour with the provided form.
Monday, 26th
7 pm
Cocktail and Dinner at Green Wine House
The Green Wine House, home of Viticulture
Commission of the Green Wine Region - installed here since the mid-forties, is
one of the richest the mid-century XIX houses, called in that time Palace of Silva
Monteiro.
Located in the center of Porto and on a slope
facing south, overlooking the Douro river, the Green Wine House has three
floors and, inside, a richly decorated architectural work in which the noble
staircase stands out, illuminated by a skylight ornate. Behind the house, the
garden, also keeping part of its original plan, dives over the Douro, through
three consecutive terraced grounds, between arches and exotic flora.
Wednesday, 28th
3 pm
Guided visit to
the Romantic Museum and a walk tour along the Douro river, finishing at Port
Wine Museum (limited to 30 participants)
The
Romantic Museum of Quinta da Macieirinha
- is housed in a building built in the mid-eighteenth century for recreational
housing. It is located in an area formerly occupied by farms and continues
today, framed by the beautiful garden and grove, which enhance the romantic
atmosphere. Opened in 1972, this museum evokes a golden age in Porto - the
nineteenth century. Its interior spaces are intended to recreate the housing of
the high bourgeoisie of the nineteenth century. The exiled King of Sardinia and
Prince of Piedmont, Carlos Alberto of Savoy-Carignano, died on Thursday of
Macieirinha in July 1849. - Netrequintas Street (near Crystal Palace).
Port Wine Museum – it tells the history of Port Wine,
the importance it had for the city's economy, people, places and important
events in history that unites the city of Porto with the wine with the same
name. It is installed in old warehouses of New Quay House, built in the
eighteenth century and includes pieces of archeology, ethnography, stoneware
and porcelain, furniture, textiles, recording sheets of copper, glass and other
elements of interest, especially the collection documentary - Monchique Street
(along the river).
Friday, 30th
7 pm
Visit and Dinner Party at the Museum
Casa
do Infante -
The Museum highlights the figure of the Infante D. Henrique. Through an
interpretive center dedicated to the Discoveries and the figure of D. Henrique,
the Navigator, who was born here in 1394 and played an important role in the
Discoveries and the contact of Portugal with other countries, especially the
Brazil. You can also appreciate in this museum the traces of Roman, medieval
and modern occupation of the waterfront, featuring a model of Porto in the
middle ages. Street Customs – Ribeira.
Free
entrance tickets for town Museums
For all interested parties, we also have free entrance
tickets, with no timetable or guide, for the following museums:
Numismatics
Cabinet
Space that has one of the largest collections of
numismatics in Portugal, representing a key role in the study of Greek, Roman, Hispanic,
Arabic and Portuguese numismatics. Its collections comprise coins, medals,
decorations, bonds, debentures, bank notes, bookmarks and monetary passwords,
as well as dies medals and printing plates of bank notes - Carlos Alberto
Square - Palace Viscounts of Balsemão (a visit in conjunction with Bank of
Materials, we are in the same building)
Material’s
Bank
For over twenty years, the Materials Bank invent,
collects, saves and discloses the caracteristic materials of the city buldings,
such as tiles, plaster, iron, among others. The Bank offers city residents repeated
materials they have in reserve, especially for tile replacement in buildings being
recovered - Carlos Alberto Square - Palace Viscounts of Balsemão.
Guerra
Junqueiro House Museum
Set in a noble house of the century XVIII, remodeled by
architect Alcino Soutinho in 1995, displays collections of domestic and foreign
decorative arts covering a wide period - the fifteenth century to the
nineteenth - and different types - ceramic, furniture, jewelery, metal art,
textiles and tapestries, weapons and armor, among others. Part of the
exhibition, the sculpture collection, is a deposit of the National Museum of
Ancient Art, with pieces donated by the daughter of the poet and others
resulting from acquisition - D. Hugo Street, back of the Cathedral.
Casa do Infante
Romantic Museum of
Quinta da Macieirinha
Port Wine Museum
All tickets are limited in number. Please ask
for them at the congress help desk.
