History of Porto: 3D Timelapse [100 BC → Today] 4K HDR

04/11/2026 · The Ages Built

Descrição

Porto, on the Douro in northern Portugal, has a history that runs from 100 BC to 2026. This film rebuilds it from a hilltop settlement to the city it is today. Sit back and watch it grow, burn, flood and rise again.

Porto begins as a hilltop fort above the Douro, where a river port called Cale grows below it. Watch Augustus draw a border on the river, a road link the town to Braga, and a wall rise around it. Later the Umayyad armies destroy the town and the hill falls silent, until Vímara Peres refounds it as the County of Portucale. Crusaders sail on to Lisbon as the cathedral rises on the hill. The Ponte das Barcas, the Clérigos tower, the bridges of the Douro and the boat bridge that gave way all appear in turn, before the city reaches its place today.

Chapters
0:00 Porto Today
0:19 Hilltop of Cale (100 BC to 27 BC)
1:03 Portus Cale (27 BC to AD 300)
1:40 The Suebi Kingdom (AD 300 to AD 585)
1:59 AD 456 A Suebic King Falls
2:25 Conquest and Silence (AD 585 to AD 868)
3:02 County of Portucale (AD 868 to 1071)
4:02 Bishops and Countess (1071 to 1147)
4:53 Crusaders and Cathedral (1147 to 1233)
5:28 Royal Power Rises (1233 to 1384)
5:47 1348 The Black Death Arrives
6:10 Aviz, Ceuta and Discovery (1384 to 1499)
6:57 1415 The Ceuta Fleet Musters
7:37 Charity and Inquisition (1499 to 1580)
8:24 Spanish Rule, English Wine (1580 to 1732)
8:54 1640 Spain's Sixty Years End
9:36 The Clérigos Era (1732 to 1809)
10:45 Invasion and Siege (1809 to 1834)
11:03 1809 The Boat Bridge Gives Way
12:05 Bridges over the Douro (1834 to 1888)
13:21 Revolt and Plague (1888 to 1910)
13:32 1891 The Revolt That Failed
14:38 The First Republic (1910 to 1933)
15:49 The Estado Novo (1933 to 1959)
16:36 Revolution and Return (1959 to 1991)
16:59 1974 The Coup Reaches Porto
18:01 Culture and Renewal (1991 to 2025)
19:15 Today

About The Ages Built
The Ages Built rebuilds one city across its whole history, street by street. Every house, wall, bridge and landmark is placed by our own 3D engine, built from scratch, and grounded in historical maps, records and research. Sit back and watch a place grow, burn, flood and rise again. New cities are on the way: subscribe so you don't miss the next one.

Sources and further reading
Reconsideration of the History of the Suevi (Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire): https://www.persee.fr/doc/rbph_0035-0818_1957_num_35_1_2022
Monumentos (Direção-Geral do Património Cultural): http://www.monumentos.gov.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=5446
The Nadir of Alliance: The British Ultimatum of 1890 and Its Place In (University of Texas at Arlington): https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/history_theses/66/
Port Studies (Maney Publishing): https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/portstudies.35.2.0136
TGN full record display (Getty Research Institute): https://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNFullDisplay?find=&place=&nation=&logic=&note=&role=&subjectid=7010979

Credits
Map data:
- Copernicus DEM GLO-30 via OpenTopography (Copernicus data licence): https://portal.opentopography.org/
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0): https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
- © OpenHistoricalMap contributors (ODbL): https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/copyright

Age of Empires III terrain art, trees and sound effects © Microsoft Corporation. Used under Microsoft's Game Content Usage Rules (https://www.xbox.com/en-US/developers/rules). This video is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft.

3D models (Sketchfab, CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; each model's page is linked in the credits comment):
Low Poly Portuguese Village House 1 by AlexFerrart3D; Low Poly Portuguese Village House 2 by AlexFerrart3D; Low Poly Portuguese Village House 3 by AlexFerrart3D; Medieval House 3 by Animau3D; T2, Barco Rabelo by ANPRI; Victorian Row Boat by Ashley Aslett; Lowpoly Medieval Wooden Cart by AspectStudios; Medieval house | Generic Textures | Game ready by by__Rx; Igreja Sta. Maria da Alcaçova by Cláudio Ferreira; LOW POLY, ASIAN TOWER BLOCK by Colin.Greenall; LOW POLY, SOVIET APARTMENT BUILDING 8K by Colin.Greenall; Libeccio V6 '91, Low poly model by Daniel Zhabotinsky; Hand Cart by eb78; Roman_Insula by GiancaiG; Palais De La Bourse (Nantes) by Karpulya; Cart by KOREA HERITAGE SERVICE [KHS]; Iron Age Roundhouse by moforabbit; Fishing boat by Pabooklas; Old wooden boat by pnhtuan; Medieval Food Stall by SpatialNeglect; Volkswagen Golf Mk1 (1983), Low Poly 3D Model by Yuriy Melnikov.

Pictures:
- commons.wikimedia.org
- en.wikipedia.org
- es.wikipedia.org

All other pictures in this video are illustrations of how a person, place or event may have looked; they are not historical records.

The city is an approximate reconstruction for education.

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