Shopping street R. de Santa Catarina
Pedestrian shopping street lined with historic facades and a restored Art Nouveau cafe.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Rua de Santa Catarina in Porto centers on the Majestic Café, which opened as Café Elite in 1921 before becoming a haunt for writers like José Régio and Teixeira de Pascoaes through the 1920s. You'll hear about the café's long fade through the mid-twentieth century and the campaign that saved the building as a site of public interest, before it reopened after a two-year restoration in 1994. The guide ends back out on the street, past shops that have traded here since the 1700s.
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