The City of Porto/Oporto and the Inevitability of Change

The city of Porto yesterday, today, and who knows what it will be like tomorrow?

Porto 2011, next to Lello’s famous bookshop. Now in this place, there is a fancy shopping center. Before this was home to more than 50 homeless people.

I was born in Viseu, a name almost impossible to pronounce for foreigners, in the center north of Portugal, but even more important, in what we call the Interior — for those who don’t know, there are two Portugals; the one on the…