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12-DEC-2016

Porto. Rio Douro

The name, Latinized Durius, may have come from the Celtic tribes that inhabited the area before Roman times: the Celtic root is *dubro-.The Douro vinhateiro (winegrowing), an area of the Douro Valley in Portugal long devoted to vineyards, has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. Traditionally, the wine was taken down river in flat-bottom boats called rabelos, to be stored in barrels in cellars in Vila Nova de Gaia, just across the river from Porto. In the 1950s and 1960s, dams were built along the river, which ended this river traffic from the upper regions in Spain and along the border. Now Port wine is transported in tanker trucks.In 1998, Portugal and Spain signed the Albufeira Convention, an agreement on the sharing of trans-boundary rivers to include the Douro, Tagus and Guadiana. The convention superseded an original agreement on the Douro, signed in 1927, that was expanded in 1964 and 1968 to include tributaries.

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MarcViskens12-Feb-2017 20:50
very nice shot José
Irene Wehrli09-Feb-2017 14:32
Beautiful view, Jose…
Irene
Tom Munson09-Feb-2017 04:04
Wonderful composition, Jose.
hge5409-Feb-2017 01:32
Beautiful, nostalgic image. And, as always, educational. V
Neil Marcus09-Feb-2017 01:01
Good leading lines. A nice place to stroll and see Porto
Claude Gagnon08-Feb-2017 23:02
Beautiful compo for this excellent shot :))
Dwight Rankine08-Feb-2017 22:24
Good shot! BV
Don Mottershead08-Feb-2017 22:06
Port in tanker trucks? That sounds sacrilegious.
Great capture.
Hennie & Lies Lammers08-Feb-2017 21:55
A great view from this point. V
Patricia Kay08-Feb-2017 21:53
Wonderful capture of this beautiful scene Jose... BV
Graeme08-Feb-2017 21:47
Captured from an excellent perspective, Jose.V
Menno Hölscher08-Feb-2017 21:45
Original view of this iconic bridge.
Jim Coffman08-Feb-2017 20:47
Love this view! Very nice image...
Helen Betts08-Feb-2017 20:39
Very nice leading lines here, and yet another excellent view of the river. What is that big structure at the top of the hill on the left? V.
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