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Douro Line: 1988 [1] Codeçais halt: Coimbra-Parque halt: Cordinhã halt: Coruche railway station: Coruche: 2009–2017 Cruz da Pedra halt: Lisbon: 1983–2008 Demolished Cumeadas halt: Cunheira halt: Custió-Araújo halt: Custoias halt: D: Dafundo halt: Dalda halt: Damaia halt: Diogal halt: Duas Igrejas - Miranda railway station: Miranda do ...
The Douro vinhateiro (vine-land) of the Douro Valley in Portugal, long devoted to vineyards, has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The wine was taken downriver in flat-bottom boats called rabelos , to be stored in barrels in cellars in Vila Nova de Gaia , just across the river from Porto .
Douro DOC wine. Douro is a Portuguese wine region centered on the Douro River in the Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro region. It is sometimes referred to as the Alto Douro (upper Douro), as it is located some distance upstream from Porto, sheltered by mountain ranges from coastal influence.
After a proposal by the then president of the Pinhão Parish Council, António Manuel Saraiva, to decorate the station with azulejo tiles, which had been turned down by the railway company, in 1935, the Instituto dos Vinhos do Douro e Porto (Port Wine Institute) donated tiles to cover the station, both at the front and along the platform ...
In 1758, one of the first wine-producing regions of the world, the Região Demarcada do Douro was created under the orientation of Marquis of Pombal, in the Douro Valley. Portugal has two wine-producing regions protected by UNESCO as World Heritage: the Douro Valley Wine Region (Douro Vinhateiro) and Pico Island Wine Region (Ilha do Pico ...
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At the top are the Denominação de Origem Controlada (or DOCs) which are Quality Wines Produced in Specified Regions (QWpsr) under the European Union wine regulations and thus correspond roughly to the French Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) and Spanish Denominación de Origen (DO) classifications.