{"id":22722,"date":"2022-12-21T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/?p=22722"},"modified":"2024-01-31T11:58:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T10:58:03","slug":"wow-porto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/portugal\/porto\/wow-porto\/","title":{"rendered":"World of Wine \u2013 WOW Porto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Vila Nova de Gaia, in the middle of the old warehouses of the port wine merchants, the WOW Porto has been created. A cultural center that with museums and restaurants is a popular destination in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

If you arrive in Gaia by metro and look down to the Douro, the lettering WOW immediately catches your eye. Looking at the increasingly decaying port wine cellars, Adrian Bridge had the vision of creating an entire district with tourist attractions for Porto. In 2021, after seven years of construction, his project was completed and WOW Porto opened its doors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The main building of the World of Wine is huge and extends over several floors. In addition, there are other offers in adjacent buildings, which can be reached after a few steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The WOW Porto offers the visitor 7 different museums and 9 restaurants and cafes, various museum stores, small stores with selected products and a wine school. One day is not enough here to use the offer. So we took several sightseeing tours at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit to the Bridge Collection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The “Bridge Collection” is named after the collector and WOW boss Adrian Bridge. You can admire the collection in one of the seven museums you can visit at the World of Wine in Porto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We could not really imagine what we would see in this museum. The name alone reveals nothing about the contents of the collection. Through the museum store you enter the exhibition and since just few visitors were on site, we received a personal and really enthusiastic sounding introduction to the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A tour of the 9000-year history of drinking vessels and the drinking of alcohol awaited us. The collection consists of more than 2000 different vessels, which could not be more different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Right at the beginning of the tour we were able to watch a short film in which Adrian Bridge presented us the “exhibit of the month”. With a noticeable enthusiasm he told and described a glass that one could look at in a showcase. I found it exciting what details he went into. I would never have noticed them if I had looked at them myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then we strolled through the excellently presented collection. We discovered the oldest piece that dates back to 7000 BC, but also goblets, glasses and cups from all over the world. Whether from the Roman Empire, the Mughal Empire or from ancient Chinese dynasties, there are unique pieces to look at from every era. For example, we also discovered glasses from which Napoleon is said to have drunk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n