Porto

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Calling Code

+351

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Porto, Portugal

Charter a private flight from or to Porto with BLAK Private Jets

Porto's city jumbles down the Douro River's high banks like a shake of confetti. Its old merchant houses glow pink and orange, yellow and blue above the snaking waters and the gloomy port cellars below. There are cafés dotting the crooked cobble plazas and iron-wrought bridges linking UNESCO districts to lookout points that cast their gaze out as far as the Atlantic Ocean. It's hardly a wonder that this town has risen to become one of Europe's most popular weekend escapes!

Whizz in on a private jet to Porto, and you can choose between the city's cosmopolitan life and the Silver Coast's fresh breezes, the run of shoreline that shoots south from here in a medley of oat-topped dunes and legendary surfing waves. Go for the first, and you'll be touring Azulejo-tiled chapels from the 16th century, the tremendous Baroque spires of the Torre dos Clérigos, and the historical wealth of the maze-like Ribeira neighbourhood. Go for the latter, and you can spend summer days away in ocean-side villas set to the sound of the crashing swells.

It's also worth mentioning that charter jets to Porto can be a ticket to the iconic wine-growing region of the Douro Valley. That's a jaw-dropper of an area where undulating hills of lush green roll into the distance and hazy sierras rise to the skies. Port cellars, prestigious wineries, boutique hotels with their tasting rooms – there are untold luxuries if you make that trip.