On the 15th of September, another “Day of the Port of Leixões” is celebrated.
As a tradition, on that day the Port of Leixões opens the doors to the involving community, enabling the inhabitants of Matosinhos a more direct contact with the inner reality of the port.
The program contemplates activities to children and adults as well, including guided visits to the port installations and to some ships moored in Leixões.
Located in the heart of the municipality of Matosinhos, the Port of Leixões is an unusual example of the healthy acquaintanceship between the port and the city.
The chosen form to celebrate the days of the Port of Leixões, enabling the access of the populations of the inner circle of the port perimeter is only one more sign of the mentioned full integration between the port and the surrounding environment which, after all, have an inexorably common past, present and future.