page_title: Porto
section_title: Buses
hierarchical_section_title: Porto / Transport / Public transport / Buses
caption_attribution_description: English: MAN NL263 Caetano CNG bus (#3024) at Praça da Liberdade, Porto, Portugal.Deutsch: MAN NL263 Caetano CNG bus am Praça da Liberdade, Porto, Portugal.Português: MAN NL263 Caetano CNG autocarro na Praça da Liberdade, Porto, Portugal.
context_page_description: Porto or Oporto, is the second-largest city in Portugal and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city is small compared to its metropolitan area, with a population of 237,559 people. Porto's metropolitan area has an estimated 1.7 million people in an area of 2,395 km², making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a gamma-level global city by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group, the only Portuguese city besides Lisbon to be recognised as a global city.
  Located along the Douro River estuary in northern Portugal, Porto is one of the oldest European centres, and its core was proclaimed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996, as "Historic Centre of Porto, Luiz I Bridge and Monastery of Serra do Pilar". The historic area is also a National Monument of Portugal. The western part of its urban area extends to the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. Its settlement dates back many centuries, when it was an outpost of the Roman Empire. Its combined Celtic-Latin name, Portus Cale, has been referred to as the origin of the name Portugal, based on transliteration and oral evolution from Latin.
context_section_description: The city has an extensive bus network run by the STCP (Sociedade dos Transportes Colectivos do Porto, or Porto Public Transport Society) which also operates lines in the neighbouring cities of Gaia, Maia, Matosinhos, Gondomar and Valongo. Other smaller companies connect such towns as Paços de Ferreira and Santo Tirso to the town center. In the past the city also had trolleybuses. A bus journey is 2.00 €, which must be paid in cash.
caption: STCP bus
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