Hotel Vera Cruz

Aliados & Bolhão


Homey rooms with high ceilings off the avenida. The carpeting and beds are a bit outdated, but suites have wood-tiled floors. The top-floor breakfast room is special.


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Nearby Aliados & Bolhão attractions

1. Avenida dos Aliados

0.13 MILES

Lined with bulging, beaux arts facades and capped by the stately câmara municipal (municipal council), this avenida recalls grand Parisian imitators such…

2. Livraria Lello

0.22 MILES

Ostensibly a bookshop, but even if you’re not after books, don’t miss this exquisite 1906 neo-Gothic confection, with its lavishly carved plaster…

3. Mercado do Bolhão

0.24 MILES

The 19th-century, wrought-iron Mercado do Bolhão closed its doors in spring 2018 for a major restoration project. No fixed date had been given for its…

4. Igreja dos Clérigos

0.25 MILES

Nicolau Nasoni designed the Igreja dos Clérigos, with its theatrical facade and un­usual, oval-shaped nave, resembling a Fabergé egg due to its dusky pink…

5. São Bento Train Station

0.26 MILES

One of the world's most beautiful train stations, beaux arts São Bento wings you back to a more graceful age of rail travel. Completed in 1903, it seems…

6. Igreja das Carmelitas

0.26 MILES

Blink and you might miss that this is a church in its own right, snuggled as close as it is to the Igreja do Carmo. The twin churches are separated only…

7. Igreja do Carmo

0.27 MILES

Dating to the late 18th century, this captivating azulejo-covered church is one of Porto’s best examples of rococo architecture. The tiled panel on the…

8. Torre dos Clérigos

0.27 MILES

Sticking out on Porto's skyline like a sore thumb – albeit a beautiful baroque one – this 76m-high tower was designed by Italian-born baroque master…