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Port /2/. Interviews, unique archival samples and from private collections, the most famous songs and reminiscences of well-known personalities of folk and country music in Czechoslovakia in the documentary cycle of Czech Television (2000). Directed by J. Vondrák Porta, whose history in the years 1981 – 1989 is discussed in the eighth part of the documentary Legends of Folk and Country, is a Czech competitive music festival. It was founded in 1967 in Ústí nad Labem. The name of the festival was inspired by the valley of the Labe Porta Bohemica – Gate of Bohemia, located in the places where the river passes through the Central Bohemian Highlands. The competition gives an opportunity especially to beginning groups and is intended for the genres tramp song, folk and country. The festival consists of competitive regional rounds, from which the winners advance to the finals. Over the course of several decades, a number of today's well-known musical groups and personalities of Czech musical life have passed through the Porta festival. A nice present awaited Porto for its fifteenth birthday, and after a period of alternating Czech and Moravian cities as the venues for the finals, the Pilsen era came. The festival already had a new generation of devoted porters who created it with at least the same enthusiasm as its fathers. However, somewhere behind the scenes of the party and union committees, authorized comrades were watching over his ideological purity. At the Pilsen exhibition grounds, Porta found good facilities and an amphitheater with a capacity of 2,500 spectators (it later turned out that it could accommodate 3 times as many) and several other indoor and outdoor stages offered the amazing facilities that Porta had been waiting for for a long time. After a few years, port musicianship found itself where it is best - in nature, under the open sky.