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Alun Kirby

I can now say, officially, I live in Porto. I got my residency card yesterday.

Here are some pictures of the city where I live.

The graffiti and street art is ubiquitous, and often excellent.

The 'Saudade' graffito is common. It means nostalgia, longing or yearning.

And a huge Joana Vasconcelos tile mural.
joanavasconcelos.com/index.asp

Graffito (green paint, magnolia background) saying 'Saudade 500mg' and a pill icon. A scrap of sticker and a purple tag complete the image
Colourful abstract tile mosaic by Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos. It takes up the whole side of a long building, mostly with oranges, yellows, blues, in dots, curves, checks and randome shapes
A black door with many bits of coloured graffiti. The letterbox has a sticker reading 'MORE LOVE LETTERS PLEASE'.
#Porto#Saudade#Graffiti
Alun Kirby

It's easy to get away from the more touristic areas of Porto. The peaceful view is a few minutes from Clerigos tower.

Escalators! (3 of them up a very steep street); Escadas do Monte dos Judeus.

On the coast at Matosinhos, the award winning Terminal de Cruzeiros. A million tiles - fish scales glinting in the sun.

And next to it, O Titan, a restored steam crane from 1890.

Happy to be here.

An escalator alongside stone stairs in a street in Porto
A view of the river Douro from Porto A hillside with houses with orange-red tiled roofs. A stone wall in the right foreground with seagulls sitting on it
The Titan steam crane viewed from below front. The main (long, narrow, rectangluar) arm is top centre, rust red, rapidly receding to bottom centre where it joins the main body of the crane. A blue sky beyond, a chain fence to the left, stone wall to the right
Rectangular windows at top right, set in a circular frame with blue sky behind. Light falls onto a tiled wall, curvedtop left to bottom right, with a curved walkway mid right
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