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The Church is first of all famous for its wooden fretwork. Such traditional for baroque style decoration is almost everywhere: cherubs, saints, animals and flowers can be seen at the ceilings, naves, along windows and columns. Because of such quantity of fretwork, mostly covered with tinsel, the building itself gets lost in this luxury. This frivolous decoration contrasts a lot with the ideals, preached by the Minorites, so the clergy decided not to use the church for praying. In the left nave takes place Jesus' genealogical tree.

Port as a symbol. Porto is famous all over the world first of all as the motherland of port. The city has more than 40 distilleries, which produce one of the best drinks – port. Most of them are located in the area in front of Ribeira on the other bank of the Douro. There are some excursions to the wine-cellars of one of the most famous companies – Calem. There one can learn a lot about the history and the process of port production. You'll have an opportunity to look at the enormous 60 000- liter woods, to walk along these rows and in the end some degustation will be organized.
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