Announced today: Porto wins European Best Destination for 2017! 3x winner in the past five years (2012, 2014, 2017)! Congratulations, Porto! The other cities/regions in the competition: Milan, Gdansk, Athens, San Sebastian, Sozopol (Bulgaria), Vienna, Stari Grad (Croatia), Basel, Rotterdam, Rome, Madrid, Paris, Bonifacio (France), and Wild Taiga (Finland).
Here’s the official video to announce the winning entry for Porto. From the European Best Destination website:
“Never has the choice of the winning city been so unanimous among travellers from all other the world. It is with the votes of worldwide travellers from 174 countries that Porto wins this European title again for the third time (2012, 2014, 2017). Travellers from the USA, the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, South-Africa, South Korea, Ireland and Canada, among others… voted Porto in the first place in this competition.”