Portobello
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Places

England
  • Portobello, West Midlands
    Portobello, West Midlands
    Portobello is an area of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. It is situated to the east of the city centre and to the north of Bilston, in the Bilston North ward of the city council. It was formerly part of Willenhall Urban District....

  • Portobello Road
    Portobello Road
    Portobello Road is a street in the Notting Hill district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London, England. It runs almost the length of Notting Hill from south to north, roughly parallel with Ladbroke Grove. On Saturdays it is home to Portobello Road Market, one of London's...

    , London
  • Portobellow, an estate in Wakefield
    Wakefield
    Wakefield is the main settlement and administrative centre of the City of Wakefield, a metropolitan district of West Yorkshire, England. Located by the River Calder on the eastern edge of the Pennines, the urban area is and had a population of 76,886 in 2001....

    , West Yorkshire


Ireland
  • Portobello, Dublin
    Portobello, Dublin
    In Dublin, Portobello is an area stretching westwards from South Richmond Street as far as Upper Clanbrassil Street bordered on the north by the South Circular Road and on the south by the Grand Canal....

    , Ireland


New Zealand
  • Portobello, New Zealand
    Portobello, New Zealand
    Portobello is a village beside the Otago Harbour halfway along the Otago Peninsula in Dunedin City, New Zealand. It lies at the foot of a small peninsula between Portobello Bay and Latham Bay....



Panama
  • Portobelo, Panama
    Portobelo, Panama
    Portobelo is a port city in Colón Province, Panama. It is located on the northern part of the Isthmus of Panama and has a deep natural harbor. Today, Portobelo is a sleepy city with a population of fewer than 3,000...



Scotland
  • Portobello, Edinburgh
    Portobello, Edinburgh
    Portobello is a beach resort located three miles to the east of the city centre of Edinburgh, along the coast of the Firth of Forth, in Scotland. It is now a suburb of Edinburgh, with a promenade fronting on to the wide sand beach....



United States
  • Porto Bello (Drayden, Maryland)
    Porto Bello (Drayden, Maryland)
    Porto Bello is a historic home located at Drayden, St. Mary's County, Maryland. It is a -story gambrel-roofed Flemish bond brick house built after 1742. It is located on a portion of the first grant of land recorded in the province of Maryland: West St...

  • Porto Bello (Williamsburg, Virginia)

Other uses

  • Battle of Porto Bello
    Battle of Porto Bello
    The Battle of Porto Bello, or the Battle of Portobello, was a 1739 battle between a British naval force aiming to capture the settlement of Portobello in Panama, and its Spanish defenders. It took place during the War of the Austrian Succession, in the early stages of the war sometimes known as the...

    , a 1739 British naval victory in Panama
  • Porto Bello (Caribbean), a fictional British colony in the Long John Silver film and The Adventures of Long John Silver TV series.
  • Portobello (font)
    Portobello (font)
    Portobello is a modern typeface and computer font. It was created by Steve Jackaman, a font designer from the Borough of Greenwich in London, England. The Portobello font is "loosely based on Pontecorvo, a font design by Aldo Novarese."...

  • Portobello (novel)
    Portobello (novel)
    Portobello is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, published in 2008. It is set in and around the Portobello Road in Notting Hill, London. Written in the third-person narrative mode, it follows the lives of a number of Londoners—rich and poor alike—living near the Portobello Road...

    , a 2008 novel by Ruth Rendell
  • Portobello mushroom, a mature Agaricus bisporus sporocarp
  • Portobello Accessories LTD Macahel Accessories - importer/exporter and wholesaler of fashion accessories - Bethnal Green/London
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