Porto is currently a hotspot on the European nightlife scene. Hipsters jet in on low cost flights to throng its happening bars and clubs on weekends. If you want to dance to dawn the options are unlimited. If your idea of a night out is a nightcap after a concert of top-class classic music or a couple of hours listening to cool jazz, Porto also has that covered.

One venue offers all those options under one roof. The Casa da Música,  Av. da Boavista 604–610 is an architectural landmark built by Dutchman Rem Koolhaas, a giant irregular rhombus in glass and white-concrete that seems to balance precariously over the surrounding avenues. Since opening in 2005, it’s become a major cultural center. Its array of auditoria large and small, multimedia studios, bars and restaurants hosts a huge variety of events.

Other venues include the Rivoli theater, Praça D. João I, a legendary place in the Portuguese rock world, which hosts classical, jazz and pop concerts, as well as plays and dance. The Coliseu, Rua Passos Manuel, 137 holds shows by big-names in Portuguese and international music like American rockers the Pixies, fado star Cuca Roseta and Russia’s Classical Ballet performing “The Nutcracker.” Porto’s grandest theater is the Teatro Nacional São João, Praça da Batalha. It has a dynamic repertoire of classic and modern plays, often with English subtitles, as well as regular opera performances.

Jazz fans should head for the Sala Porta Jazz, Avenida dos Aliados, 168, (https://portajazz.com) which holds regular sessions most weekend nights and also organizes open air shows on summer evenings in the Palácio de Cristal gardens; or the intimate Hot Five Jazz & Blues Club, Largo Actor Dias, 51.

Porto’s bar and club scene spreads out around the city. There are plenty of places to have a drink down by the riverside in Ribeira and Gaia or out by the beach in Foz, but the epicenter of nightlight is in the Baixa area around the parallel streets of Rua Galeria de Paris and Rua Cândido dos Reis. Among the most hopping places for a drink are The Gin House, Rua Cândido dos Reis, 70, Casa do Livro, Rua Galerias Paris, 85 and Era uma vez em Paris.