圣卡塔琳娜街

Every city keeps one street for shopping, and Porto’s runs downhill and up again from the Batalha square towards the Bolhão: Rua de Santa Catarina, a pedestrian line of shopfronts, cafés and buskers that has been the city’s busiest retail address for more than a century.

店面一公里

The street grew into the city’s commercial heart in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when Porto’s department stores and grand cafés lined its length, and the calçada pavements were laid with the city’s patterns. Today it is pedestrianised for most of its course, mixing historic names with international chains, and the sidewalks belong to street musicians and flower sellers as much as to shoppers.

瓷砖、市场与咖啡馆

两处地标打破了临街店面的连续。在费尔南德斯·托马斯街（Rua Fernandes Tomás）街角，灵魂小堂（Capela das Almas）展现出近一万六千块蓝花瓷砖装饰的外墙；再往前不远， 博良市场 1914年落成的大厅里摆满了鱼鲜、花卉和农产品，而 马耶斯蒂克咖啡馆 and the other historic cafés keep the street’s older rhythm alive between them.

值得一看的亮点

• 步行购物街本身
• 灵魂小堂（Capela das Almas）的蓝花瓷砖立面
• 北端的博良市场（Mercado do Bolhão）
• 历史悠久的咖啡馆和糕点店
• 葡式碎石路面与街头艺人

实用信息

圣卡塔琳娜街（Rua de Santa Catarina）穿过波尔图下城中心区，距圣本笃车站和主教座堂山坡仅几步之遥。这条街平坦，大部分路段禁止车辆通行；上午最安静，周六下午最热闹。可将这段步行与博良市场及市场街区一并游览。

图片：Rua de Santa Catarina，作者Bernard Gagnon — CC BY 4.0，来自Wikimedia Commons。