The population calls it Caralho de Filho da Puta Vai te Foder Cabrão de Merda. This is the place to go if you want to learn Portuguese swear words and/or go fast.
Man I love cognates. I don’t know a lick of Portuguese but I understood 95% of that because its basically the same in Spanish
A few months back I happened to bump in to a wonderful artist from Porto.
Posted a small collection of his work here:
https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels/p/1624124/thirteen-is-the-magic-number-a-collection-of-art-by-francisco-fonseca-from-porto-portugIs that true? The article doesn’t provide any reference to support that claim and the Portuguese Wikipedia only has a very brief mention at the 9th paragraph that it’s also known by that name, but nothing about being its official name.
Google the phrase a number of documents and travel blogs come up suggesting it’s a real thing. Also this reddit thread which you can translate from portuguese to learn the hiatory of why
This might just be a case of english speaking wiki writiers being lazy when it comes to foreign place articles.
“Because during the ‘Liberal Wars’ it suffered several sieges and was never taken, and it ended up being a very important starting point for the victory of Dom Pedro IV, who intended to secure the throne for Queen Maria II, who later bestowed the title of ‘Ancient, very noble, always loyal, and Invicta (Unvanquished)’ upon the city of Porto.”
If it was real it would say so on a single government page, and yet no page does.
Undefeated
Between 714 and 716, Porto came under Muslim control following the Umayyad conquest of Hispania.Portugal didn’t exist yet. That happened in 1143.
Someone just vandalized the page. That’s the city’s motto, not its name.
https://europeanribbon.eu/portugal/porto-en/porto-the-noble-and-undefeated-city-of-portugal/
And they even discuss this in the Reddit TIL from last year. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1m4cocb/til_that_the_official_name_of_porto_portugal_is/
This is going to be what I name my first child.
Ah yes, The Wisest, The Boldest, The Proudest, The Undefeated Mark - he hasn’t been in good shape for a while, and his family dumped him because of the addictions, but now he’s back to his mom’s to think it through, you know
(Sniff) Make me proud, son!
These guys have nothing on Krung Thep Maha Nakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udom Ratchaniwet Maha Sathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit.
(Bangkok)
Sure. Your place or mine?
Exceedingly long names. My most favoured of all things notable and memorable in the linguistic tradition.
And fortified dessert wine!
