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Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto

The Porto Institute of Engineering is a public higher education engineering institution located in Porto, Portugal.

Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto · Diego Delso (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The place

The Porto Institute of Engineering is a public higher education engineering institution located in Porto, Portugal. Founded in 1852, it is the largest unit and engineering school of the Technical University of Porto. Located in the Asprela Innovation District, ISEP hosts over 7,000 students across 14 undergraduate (licenciatura), 15 master's degree (mestrado) programs, 4 doctoral (doutoramento) programmes, alongside several R&D facilities.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Estádio do Dragão

    The Estádio do Dragão is an all-seater football stadium in Porto, Portugal, and the home ground of FC Porto since 2003. It has a seating capacity of 50,033, making it the third-largest football stadium in Portugal.

    2.7 km · football stadium in Porto, Portugal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    University of Porto

    The University of Porto is a Portuguese public research university located in Porto, and founded on 22 March 1911. It is the second largest Portuguese university by number of enrolled students, after the University of Lisbon, and has one of the most noted research outputs in Portugal.

    3.5 km · public research university in Porto, Portugal · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Estádio do Bessa

    The Estádio do Bessa Sec. XXI (English: Bessa Stadium Sec.

    3.4 km · football stadium in Porto, Portugal · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Casa da Música

    The Casa da Música is a concert hall in Porto, Portugal. It was designed by architect Rem Koolhaas and opened in 2005.

    2.9 km · concert hall · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Metro do Porto

    The Porto Metro is a light rail network in Porto, Portugal and a key part of the city's public transport system. It runs underground in central Porto and above ground into the city's suburbs while using low-floor tram vehicles.

    2.1 km · light rail system in Porto, Portugal · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Porto Cathedral

    The Porto Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church located in the historical centre of the city of Porto, Portugal. It is one of the city's oldest monuments and one of the most important local Romanesque monuments.

    3.9 km · cathedral · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of Saint Ildefonso

    The Igreja de Santo Ildefonso is an eighteenth-century church in Porto, Portugal. The church is located near Batalha Square.

    3.5 km · 18th-century church in Oporto · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Clérigos Church

    The Clérigos Church is a Baroque church in the city of Porto, in Portugal. Its 75-meter-tall bell tower, the Torre dos Clérigos, can be seen from various points of the city and is one of its most characteristic symbols.

    3.6 km · Baroque church in Portugal · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Igreja de Santa Clara

    Igreja de Santa Clara is a Catholic church located in the parish of Sé in Porto, Portugal. The construction of the church began in 1416 alongside the Santa Clara Convent for use by nuns of the Order of Poor Clares.

    4 km · church in Porto, Portugal · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    National Museum Soares dos Reis

    Soares dos Reis National Museum is a museum, currently housed in the Carrancas Palace situated in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the northern Portuguese city of Porto. Founded in 1833, it is the first Portuguese national museum exhibiting collections of Portuguese art, including a collection by Portuguese sculptor António Soares dos Reis, from which the museum derives its name.

    3.6 km · art museum in Porto, Portugal · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto

Airports
Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO), 10 km · Santiago-Rosalía de Castro (SCQ), 192 km · Lisbon Humberto Delgado (LIS), 270 km
Stations
São Bento railway station, 3.6 km · Campanhã railway station, 3.8 km · Trindade metro station, 2.9 km
  • Lisbon → Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
    277 km · quickest by air, 4h 5m · €90–130
  • Faro → Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
    466 km · quickest by air, 4h 5m · €100–140
  • Santiago de Compostela → Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
    189 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · €23–32
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThe Andante Gold, like the Andante Blue can be used in all metro lines, the funicular and all buses.
  • Get aroundYour Andante must be validated before you enter the metro, bus or funicular.
  • Get aroundThere are ferry boats that connect Porto to the neighboring city of Vila Nova de Gaia, although you can easily walk or travel by car, metro or bus to the other side.
  • Get aroundNear the Douro there is a heliport with a helicopter available for people to use to get to know the city as a whole.
  • Go nextMinho region — Go on a day trip to this region.

From Wikivoyage: Porto, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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