Casa do Infante

This guide to Casa do Infante in Porto opens on the fourth of March 1394, when Queen Philippa of Lancaster went into labor inside this medieval customs house, not a palace, and the son born that day grew up to be remembered as Henry the Navigator. It traces why a royal birth happened above a warehouse stacked with wine barrels and Flemish cloth, and how the building served as Porto's customs house and royal mint since 1325. Best heard standing near the entrance, looking down at the floor.