Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
(Rua Cândido dos Reis; 11.30am-2am)
This inviting wine bar combines trim decor with festive
red-and-yellow walls. DJs spin and live bands perform on occasion. The inviting sunken
stone terrace is Amarante's hipster hangout of choice.
Information
Banks with ATMs are along Rua 5 de Outubro and Rua António Carneiro.
Biblioteca Municipal Albano Sardoeira
(
255 420 236; Largo de Santa Clara;
10am-12.30pm & 2-6.30pm
Mon-Sat)
Free internet access.
255 410 500; Quinta da Lama, Telões)
North of the centre.
Hospital
(
Police Station
(
255 437 790; Rua Capitão Augusto Casimiro)
Post Office
(Rua João Pinto Ribeiro;
8.30am-6pm Mon-Fri)
Turismo
( 255 420 246;
www.amarante.pt/turismo
; Alameda Teixeira de Pascoaes; 9am-5.30pm Mon-Fri)
Next to the museum, in the former cloisters of São Gonçalo. It offers city maps, but very
little English is spoken.
Getting There & Away
BUS
At the small but busy
Estacão Quemado
(
www.rodonorte.pt
; Rua Antonio Carneiro)
, buses stop at least
five times daily from Porto (€6.40, one hour) en route to Vila Real (€6.30, 40 minutes)
and Bragança (€12, 2¾ hours). There are also daily buses to Braga (€7.80, 1½ hours) and
Lisbon (€18, 4¼ hours).
TOP OF CHAPTER
Lamego
POP 26,690 / ELEV 550M
Most people come to Lamego - a prim, prosperous town 10km south of the Rio Douro -
to see (and possibly to climb) the astonishing baroque stairway that zigzags its way up to
the Igreja de Nossa Senhora dos Remédios. The old town centre itself has a mix of wind-
ing narrow lanes and tree-lined boulevards, with uplit medieval landmarks looming from
almost every angle. Connoisseurs also swear by Lamego's
raposeira,
the town's famously
fragrant sparkling wine, which provides a fine break between bouts of port.
