Rua de Miguel Bombarda
Pedestrian art street lined with dozens of contemporary galleries, design shops and cafes.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Rua de Miguel Bombarda in Porto is named for a Lisbon psychiatrist and parliamentarian killed by a former patient days before the 1910 revolution he helped plan finally toppled the monarchy. It traces how a street once honoring a future king was renamed for him instead, then spent most of a century quiet before art galleries began moving in during the 2000s. Listen for the story behind the block's now-regular gallery nights, when every shopfront opens at once.
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