The Ponte do Porto is located on the river Cávado in the parish of Pousada, and connects the counties of Amares and Braga.
It is a medieval bridge. Its name, "port" is a word from the archaic Galician-Portuguese with the meaning of "waypoint".
The bridge, made of granite, consists of eleven unequal arches and a narrow and irregular board, two meters and eight decimals wide, between walls of fence, and one hundred and fifty meters long. It has strong thalasses upstream and eardrums leaked in the central elements.
It is classified as a National Monument in 1910.
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