# Palaces and history

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Content updated: 2026-06-22

Paläste und Geschichte traces Porto’s architectural heritage through palaces built during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Once home to nobility, these buildings now serve cultural and historical roles. Across Porto’s vibrant cityscape, restored romantic mansions stand beside baroque episcopal residences.

Each stop connects architecture with the city’s history and art. Modern adaptations show how former aristocratic residences continue within Porto’s urban landscape. The contrast between romantic mansions and baroque episcopal residences captures the city’s changing architectural story.

- Stops: 7
- City: [Porto](https://mytuur.com/en/city/porto/)

## Stops on this tour

1. [Palácio do Conde do Bolhão](https://mytuur.com/en/city/porto/spot/palacio-do-conde-do-bolhao/)
2. [Palacete dos Viscondes de Balsemão](https://mytuur.com/en/city/porto/spot/palacete-dos-viscondes-de-balsemao/)
3. [Palacete da Rua Dom João IV](https://mytuur.com/en/city/porto/spot/palacete-da-rua-dom-joao-iv/)
4. [Paço Episcopal do Porto](https://mytuur.com/en/city/porto/spot/paco-episcopal-do-porto/)
5. [Palacete de Belomonte](https://mytuur.com/en/city/porto/spot/palacete-de-belomonte/)
6. [Palácio de São João Novo](https://mytuur.com/en/city/porto/spot/palacio-de-sao-joao-novo/)
7. [Associação Comercial do Porto](https://mytuur.com/en/city/porto/spot/associacao-comercial-do-porto/)

To walk this tour, open it in the myTuur app and start where you are: the route adapts, and each story begins as you reach its stop. Skip or reorder stops whenever you like. And because the tour works offline, a walk through Porto keeps going even without a signal.

## What is myTuur?

myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.