(…) “But what the city has, above all, is its character – a character that makes the Porto citizen the most beautiful way of being Portuguese. This city, whose exasperated and virile spirit made from the dark granite stones its mirror of it’s own soul; this town, whose people have a coarseness of speech and gestures that goes perfectly with his hatred of futility and hypocrisy; this city, who inherited from the soil roughness and the tough river a solidity that leads to the things of the art and the heart. (…)
Cidade
Eugénio de Andrade in À Sombra da Memória, 1993