Why do we call the people of Porto "TRIPEIROS"!



"In the year 1415, built on the banks of the Douro the ships and boats that were to lead the Portuguese, this year, the conquest of Ceuta, and later to the Epic of Discovery. The reason this project was secret and yards rumors were many and varied: some said that the vessels were intended to convey the Infanta Dona Helena to England, where she married, others said it was to bring the King John I to Jerusalem to visit the Holy Sepulcher. But there were still those who assert the feet close together that the fleet was intended to lead the Infants Pedro and Henry, to Naples to get married there ...
It was then that Prince Henry appeared unexpectedly at the Port to see the progress of work and, although pleased with the effort, thought it could do even more. And the Prince confided to master Vaz, trustee of construction, the true and secret reasons that were in their origin: the conquest of Ceuta. Asked the master and his men to greater efforts and sacrifices, Vaz master assured him they would do the same for the infant who had made some thirty years ago when the war with Castile, would give the city all the meat and eat only the casings . This sacrifice had valid even them the nickname "tripeiros”. Moved, Prince Henry then told him that the name "tripeiros" was a real honor for the people of Porto. The History of Portugal noted that most unusual of the heroic sacrifice "tripeiros" which contributed to the large fleet of Prince Henry Welsh seven and twenty ships, departed on their way to conquest of Ceuta. "