| Show WORLD CITY b Or OF MUCH CHARM Ali AliI Alis I 1 s f Oporto Draws Tourists Tour Tour- Tourists to Portugal l Few people realize that Portugal 4 most ancient of the actual colo- colo e countries ot of still rules Wn h e third third largest colonial empire I ly Jy Enl ind and possess 1 lore ore outlying domain To cull attention to the resources 1 d d development of POI p cj square miles of colonies In Air Air- and Asia n a national colonial C ex ItS held In Oporto from September one one until second In populatIOn nd to Lisbon the cp cap sal tal oporto Is the best city reon portugal to outsiders because It t f Id J ss s gh ghen en Its name to pot port t wine Ine one oneIA Jill IA t f the n pitons piton's thons thon's chief e exports s t s eif bulletin from rom the of the NatIonal Geo Geophis means sOCiety Oporto but its be In portuguese I Ibe be in Portuguese but to only 0 residents the city elt eltIs Is simply Por 1 10 J 0 rainbow tinted tile tle gs g buildings terrice the slopes tic 4 t tt to t a cliff on one side sille of the Dour Aver t Nver gorge On the opposite sIde ofa of o e a on Is the to town ton n or of Villa n ova e le Gala where the port wine wale wale- 84 14 bridges uses tre located T Tito 0 a bridges span the deep lorge borge I f In thi ee rn Clews One Oner r the Dom I 1 brid bridge e look 1001 trig up at the city on the heights and tang own wn on the busy on t by the theW lie W its colored rh ei CI s here here quaint fling craft and model modern n freIghter M meet Another slew Ie Is from flom the eights do down n on the granite gorge 1 ff the Douro A third from the or river road bis picturesque background round of streets and tall nan narrow ow houses Ith projecting gables and colored Ie facades i BuIlt Into the w at the foot of e cliff are all manner of little patronized by bv longshoremen e rh er w Is always Is the photographer s Mec I Here are arc the bullock carts c halt baiting their bolds here bere the hu ha huan haan an carriers canlers men belting burdens boat shaped baskets on their ers and women carry Ing e es cry ery- ng imaginable on theiL heads i O om em a load ot of slate or n a asket piled high wIth codfish to n a aby by asleep In a cra cradle le The load lond rU balanced on a little circular pad a hard pincushion rIn In Lisbon the ox 01 cart has it cally disappeared but In Oporto it Iti i O aids oMs Its own besIde the automobile Ild d the electrIc tram The rural Il a is nging carts whose hose creaking EST earl eard from afar however are un un- un own In the cItIes where such unlawful and the wheels are e kept welt ell oiled oBed On street corners women sell sen ly Iy boiled shellfish which are as OF TheOF as peanuts with nth us The right handkerchief worn os 0 er el the theN N I omans oman's head bead In the Minho distrIct here replaced by n a small flat sir tar lar velvet Men len wIth slung from the ends of poles I tt t the streets selling fruit and iii t i f 1 The homes of the middle middie class classe e a one floor apartments In t ill III down down- wn n hOJ houses es but the n citi Lit ns DS lis 11 e a In tile the suburbs where their lies mate homes are half hl hidden den behind eis ees s and flowering shrubs the gar garens garisS isS ens enclosed ed wIthin hIgh stone Job s ails s 1 In In no other cIty save Rio de aneiro Is there such 1 satisfactory l to seeing tram system Twenty rr tilt lines come Into the tk Liberdade e Lach ear bears n a numb ae e umber r and a little book with th a map yes its You can rIde to toc ia uda c rIvers rIver's mouth up the coa coast t to ei toes where here the ocean liners dock d bad back the rest resi d to town through section or acro across s the bridge er the Douro to Villa No Noa a de dela deIa h la Ia In the business district there are r p windows filled WIth the ye ve gold and fIl sifter fIler er filigree jewelry 0 I In and near Oporto e a finest example of the silver silver- i Ith's art Is In a chapel of the old 0 thedral where hero the nIt astir r taber- taber d ale cle and plate are entire entire- I of silver a century's work worl of G artIsts orb The inner walls of the railroad tation are covered with historIc In blue and white glared f st es To follow the these e pictures In 0 1 is to know the outstanding iJ eats In the city's varied hIstory t trough rough Roman and rule 50 wn to that red letter day in 1386 f s hen King Joao I rode through the Ifs gate besIde his fair English brIde Philippa of Lancaster d tel ter of John of Gaunt A Aarm warm arm friendship e during the World tar ar has hns ever since c I between England and Among the five sons born to Jono Joao and was as the prince kno known knon n as Henry the Nn Christopher Columbus studIed r In Oporto on hIs n from Spanish where here hIs bo boa hood was spent to Lisbon but he was little l known In those dl days an and Is not In the tile the pIcture The The vines which produce the port tine Ine gripes are not gro grown gron n near but about sixty mile miles up the tho Douro The sailing boats which brIng the barrels ot of tine Ine do to warehouses In Villa No Noa a de Gain are tInt bottomed to pass over shoals and around s md- md bars They hey are arc most picturesque with Ith n a spoon shaped prow and one huge square sail bellyIng In the wind Ind like me those used on the earliest t type pe ot of PhoenIcian craft When the boats are arc bound upstream Jon long heay poles are employed and progress progress ress against the current Is achieved by main strength BesIde the wIne carriers on the lower Douro are gondola like me boats with graceful lateen sills nn an InherItance from the Moors and narrow boats hIgh In prow and stern like the ancient galleys A book could be wrItten on the strange craft to be seen to In Portuguese wa tors waters It |
