Porto - Café Majestic

Porto is with a population of about 250.000 the largest city in Northern Portugal. In "Greater Porto", the metropolitan area, live even more than 1.7 million people.

The historical center of Porto was proclaimed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996. Port wine is named after Porto, since the cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia on the southern banks of the river Douro are the centers for packaging, transport and export of the fortified wine. Some years ago I had been here for a couple of days before I started the "Camino Portugues" here.

Finally I had a coffee in the "Café Majestic".
Following my guide-book, this is one of the most beautiful café - worldwide. Somebody had told me, that British author J. K. Rowling, who worked as an English teacher in Porto in the early 1990s, wrote down the first part of first of all Harry Potter novels - in the Café Majestic.

www.cafemajestic.com/en/Majestic-Cafe/History.aspx