What do you think of a cruise in the Douro?

To better know the river Douro, nothing of what covering it of boat. The different tourist boats (minicruises of small duration, cruises of one day with meals on board and cruises of ship-hotel with stay on board) give reply to the necessities and to the taste of each tourist.

The tourist boats have a capacity between the 20 and 350 passengers, presenting different types of passage with an extension that can go up to 210 km, between New Village of Gaia, in the opposing edge to the Port, and White Bark, next to the border with Spain.

The minicruises have a typical duration enter one the two hours. Some of them are carried through in similar boats to the rabelos, that were used in the past in the transport of pipes of wine throughout the river. The attended passage more is of Minicruise of the Six Bridges, that covers the river in front of the historical zone of the Port and to you dig them of the wine of the Port, passing under the bridges most emblematic between Porto and Gaia.

The tourists who arrive at the Port and intend a new experience, have the possibility of if directing to the region from the wharf of Gaia, travelling in the cruises disponibilizados for the some tourist companies, specialized in the route of the river Douro. Different passages are possible between the wharves of Gaia, Weight of the Ruler, Nut, Pocinho and Barca de Alva, with stay possibility on board up to five days.

Some cruises and minicruises have adequate subjects to the region as, for example, the production of wine or the nature, allowing to visualize fifth of the Demarcated Region of the Douro or you land them of the Natural Park of the International Douro, where they inhabit rare species, as the robbery birds.