Rua de Cedofeita

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.