Casa da Música

Where was the first one that first year? Was that at the conservatory?

The first one was at Casa da Música.

Okay, geez.

The biggest hall in Porto.

Like, who's gonna be the crazy one, and who's gonna rein it in? I think we switch maybe every, every day.

[laughs] It switches.

But I remember the first year, he's like, "Well, if we're gonna do something, we have to show that we're here, so let's do it at Casa da Música." And to me, I didn't even know what that meant.

I was like, "Okay." You, like, you ask, and if they say yes, I guess we're doing it, and that's really what sparked the festival.

The Porto Metro's new pink line, the Linha Rosa.

It is finally testing its trains on the rails between the Casa da Música and São Bento stations.

And that is a massive feat of civil engineering.

Connecting those two specific hubs underground requires navigating dense historical architecture and complex geology.