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Livraria Porto Editora

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Livraria Porto Editora is a bookshop in the Baixa district of Porto, at number 42 on Praça Dona Filipa de Lencastre, postal code 4050-259. The Visit Porto tourism site lists it under shops, as a bookshop, with shopping as its theme, and gives an average visit time of 0h 30m. On that site the entry is titled Porto Editora - Praça Filipa de Lencastre. The shop belongs to Porto Editora, a publisher founded in 1944 in Porto. Since its foundation the company has devoted itself to publishing books and other products for the areas of education and reference. Besides its own publications, the shop sells national and foreign books. Its range also takes in military cartography, stationery, maps, itineraries, gifts and samples. The company's contacts page gives Rua da Restauração, 365, 4099-023 Porto as its main address, which also serves its northern distribution. Opening hours are 09:00 to 19:00 from Monday to Friday, and the shop is closed on Sunday. For Saturday, the Visit Porto page shows opening from 09:00 to 13:00. A separate hours listing gives two Saturday sessions instead, from 09:00 to 13:00 and from 14:30 to 18:00. Visitors can reach the shop on +351 222007681 or at LojaPFilipa@portoeditora.pt. Porto Editora's official contacts page lists this address among its bookshops in the northern zone, with the telephone number (+351) 22 200 76 81. The same page lists another bookshop, in the central zone, at Rua João Machado, 9-A, 3000-226 Coimbra. It also states that the bookshop in the southern zone closed permanently on 1 April 2021. For teachers, the page offers a Linha do Professor helpline on 22 605 67 47. Porto Editora also works beyond its shops. The English Wikipedia entry describes it as active in educational books, dictionaries and multimedia products, both offline and online. German Wikipedia says the group runs the free online encyclopedia Infopédia, the Diciopédia series and the Escola Virtual e-learning platform. Since 2008 it has operated Wook, an online service selling books and films. The same article says the company is a partner of Ernst Klett Verlag for joint German-Portuguese dictionaries, and that it took over the Portuguese business of Direct Group Bertelsmann in 2010. That purchase brought in the Círculo de Leitores book club and the Livraria Bertrand chain, which the article puts at 54 branches. It adds that the company continues to run its original Porto Editora bookshops.

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