Overlooking the Douro Feb 21, 2021

Overlooking the Douro

Welcome to Porto, the second city of Portugal. Known on some English-language maps as Oporto (the Portuguese call it "o Porto" in conversation, meaning simply "the Port"), this attractive, ancient city is most famous today not for the port itself but for what"s shipped out of it.

© Kanuman/Shutterstock

palette

Today in History

Feb 21, 2018Innerdalsvatna Lake, near Ålvundeidet, Norway
Feb 21, 2019Sounds of Bach come to Bath
Feb 21, 2020Carnival comes to Olinda
Feb 21, 2022Presidents Day
Feb 21, 2023New Orleans for Mardi Gras
Feb 21, 2024Yosemite National Park, California
Feb 21, 2025Champaka Sarasi, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India
Feb 21, 2026Red fox, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Dec 7, 2018Honoring our fallen heroes
Jul 28, 2019Road-trip worthy attraction in the heartland
Apr 28, 2019A good time in the Badlands
Sep 14, 2020Tiny fliers head south
Feb 17, 2021The persistence of Perito Moreno
Aug 6, 2021Looking down upon Edinburgh
May 2, 2021Happy World Laughter Day
Sep 15, 2019A light on National Hispanic Heritage Month
Jan 15, 2022To Sua Ocean Trench
Mar 25, 2026Juvenile manatees in a freshwater spring, Crystal River, Florida
Oct 30, 2023Common raven
Dec 1, 2018A treaty for science
Nov 27, 2022Cecropia leaf and lobster claw petals in Mexico
Nov 22, 2019The Cutty Sark turns 150
Dec 9, 2020It s Computer Science Education Week
Jun 19, 2024Juneteenth
Oct 22, 2024Palazzo Zuccari, Rome
Mar 4, 2018Australian baobab tree, Kimberley region, Western Australia
Jan 25, 2019Fighting evil with costumes
Aug 10, 2024Joshua Tree National Park, California
Jan 28, 2022Short-eared owl
Oct 17, 2021A walk among the giants
Mar 11, 2020Anybody out there?
Dec 26, 2025Boxing Day
May 28, 2024The Monastery of Roussanou, Greece
Jun 24, 2021The call of the wild in Alaska
May 23, 2021A palace for the public
Oct 20, 2021Feeling lazy? Today s your day.
Dec 4, 2022World Wildlife Conservation Day
Mar 3, 2026World Wildlife Day