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11-DEC-2016

Porto. Rio Douro

The name, Latinized Durius, may have come from the Celtic tribes that inhabited the area before Roman times: the Celtic root is *dubro-.The Douro vinhateiro (winegrowing), an area of the Douro Valley in Portugal long devoted to vineyards, has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. Traditionally, the wine was taken down river in flat-bottom boats called rabelos, to be stored in barrels in cellars in Vila Nova de Gaia, just across the river from Porto. In the 1950s and 1960s, dams were built along the river, which ended this river traffic from the upper regions in Spain and along the border. Now Port wine is transported in tanker trucks.In 1998, Portugal and Spain signed the Albufeira Convention, an agreement on the sharing of trans-boundary rivers to include the Douro, Tagus and Guadiana. The convention superseded an original agreement on the Douro, signed in 1927, that was expanded in 1964 and 1968 to include tributaries.

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Zoltán Balogh07-Jan-2017 12:48
Great mood! V
Patricia Kay06-Jan-2017 11:22
Beautiful scene Jose...BV
Stephanie06-Jan-2017 11:06
Very pretty pov and lighting! V
Graeme06-Jan-2017 10:46
A fine view, Jose.V
Yvonne06-Jan-2017 09:55
Lovely shot of the quietness of the day... v
Ton, Ben & Rob Nagtegaal06-Jan-2017 08:08
Beautiful perspective and light. V
Helen Betts06-Jan-2017 05:19
Shot from a great perspective in beautiful light. V.
Bryan Murahashi06-Jan-2017 05:06
Nice warm glow over the horizon.
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