If you google this business, you might get their office address closer to the Porto city center. By tradition, the festival has occupied the park grounds at blandly named "City Park". Don't let the blandness fool you though. This is beautiful, sizeable grounds and a great setting to be able to hold the festival. Nos Primavera Sound started off in Spain, Barcelona I believe, and Porto, Portugal, was its first international location. From this point on, they've added a few Brazil locations and this year, Los Angeles too! They have something going on, and they seem to be doing it right by creating a festival full of up and coming indie/alternative artists.
I enjoyed my time at the Porto festival as there was a lot of great vendors to try their products out and get free items. Things were sectioned off pretty well. Slushie from Binance, quality water from a water company, an alcohol company (Super Bock) offering their drink after downloading the Porto app and they also had stands all over the festival- couldn't miss them!, free bags promoting sustainability, etc. When I purchased a festival shirt and festival hoodie, I accidentally dropped my shirt and some nearby concert-goers were nice enough to tell me about my dropped shirt. I would've wanted to talk to them more and keep contact for their friendliness to do that, but they went on their merry way and all I could say was "thank you".
At the venue itself, there are three stages near each other, but they make sure that there aren't artists playing at all three at once so that the sound would be conflicting with each other. There is also some awkwardness where if I go to one of the stages, I basically have to back track and there isn't a lot of space to go around the festival from the stage called Binance stage this year.
For this reason, artists who play here need to realize that scheduling is very important. One of the artists I went to see typically started late, but then she couldn't play about half her playlist because they had to clear the area. I wish she had come out afterward to greet her fans at least, but that has been a rarity too.
I feel like Portugal or European booze seems to be better quality than the cheaper alcohol items i've had in the US. More Portuguese/European booze might be a bit sweeter, which is more to my liking personally.
There was a free bus to go to/from the festival, but this is not advertised on the website, and the people who work at the festival and police officers are hazy with their knowledge about this bus at best. There's nothing on the Porto map about a free bus, but there was information for the a Barcelona free bus. The bus might be listed on Google itself if you know how to look it up from that angle (which I don't, lol).
Despite these minor setbacks, I'd go back if I planned to go in the area during the festival time again. I'd also like to stomp wine grapes and meet more people though too if given the opportunity. read more