Rua de Cedofeita
Historic shopping street where a besieged emperor once headquartered his rebellion.
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This guide to Rua de Cedofeita in Porto opens in 1832, when the exiled emperor Dom Pedro moved his headquarters into a plain townhouse here after cannon fire wrecked the general's palace, directing Portugal's Liberal Wars from an upstairs room during a year-long siege. It also traces the street's name back over a thousand years, to a legend about a sixth-century church built so fast people called it cedo feita. Listen for number three hundred ninety five, the house the siege was run from.
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