Miragaia
Riverside quarter of colorful houses raised on stone arches over a former medieval shipyard beach.
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This guide to Miragaia in Porto opens with a Porto legend: King Ramiro storming a Moorish fortress to free his wife from the raider Alboazar, and bringing her home in triumph, until he notices her looking back at the ruins with something in her eyes he doesn't expect. From there it turns to what's certainly true: this ground was once a riverside beach where shipbuilders launched Portugal's ships of discovery, and how repeated flooding pushed houses onto stone arches by the 1600s.
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