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Lydia Manch spends a long weekend exploring the beating heart of Portugal's creative capital. It's Porto, but it could be the Hollywood Hills. M.Ou.Co is a low-slung, sun-bleached sprawl of sandstone and polished concrete and slatted wood. It still feels like winter in London when we leave, but in Porto it's all sunlight sliding over textured walls, and the outdoor pool shimmering nearly - so nearly - invitingly enough to make you forget it's not officially spring yet. M.Ou.Co's is a look that over a few nights in the city I'll come to stop comparing to other things - a hint of Scandi simplicity, an echo of the clean lines of a Japanese ryokan, a touch of Californian sun-trap - and just accept as Porto's own. But new to the city, even though the Bonfim neighbourhood - where M.Ou.Co's based - is scattered with tall, narrow, stuccoed buildings in pale blue and dusty yellow and wrought iron and azulejo tiles as evidence that it is, definitely, Portu