Aerial view above the Concert Hall Casa da Musica at Porto, designed by the Dutch architect Rem Kollhaas. From this point we see the Rotunda da Boavista, with the monument memorial of the victims during the French invasions of Napoleon in Porto 1809.
This S.Francisco Convent started in 1245. The land where it was built, known as Redondela, was offered by a devout Porto trader. It was here in Porto that the Franciscans experienced the most difficulties in building their monastery. The disputes ...
On the way towards Ribeira do Porto, the Infante D. Henrique Square offers several points of interest. The square is in the historic center of the city and around it are the Stock Exchange Palace, that is owned by Porto Commercial Association, the...
The Porto Cathedral is a building of Roman-Gothic structure, from the 12th-13th century, having undergone major remodeling in the Baroque period (17th-18th centuries). The interior still retains the aspect of a fortress church, with battlements. I...
On the south side of the Cathedral opens the Gothic cloister, a work commissioned by Bishop D. João III and started in 1385, contemporary with the construction of the Batalha Monastery. On each side of the court, four broken arches open, inscribin...
Casa da Música is the first building built in Portugal dedicated exclusively to public presentations of different types of music, as well as spaces for rehearsing orchestras and other resident and visiting groups. Its construction is linked to the...
The downtown Miragaia, with its famous arcades, which were no more than the front of the houses that faced the sand, was gradually being invaded by the tertiary group of our population, in this specific case the dispatchers and freight forwarders,...
Over time, the problems of the mouth of the Douro, in general, and the Cabedelo, in particular, have proven to be difficult to resolve or even compelling. The analysis of some historical elements, namely as floods, shipwrecks, difficulties in navi...
Of primitive name Furada, in the charters of D. Dinis of 1288 and D. Manuel I in 1518, as being a suitable sand for varga fishing, it was born as a village in the last century, being its first inhabitants from the beaches of Espinho , Ovar, Furado...
The history of Casa de Serralves began in the early 1920s after Carlos Alberto Cabral (1895-1968), 2nd Count of Vizela, inherited his family's summer farm. A cultured and well-traveled man, he had an attraction for modernity and cosmopolitan livin...
The Serralves house is a unique example of a villa-garden complex with art deco architecture. Built during the interval between the two world wars 1925-1940, with great decorative rigor and quality of materials, which involved the most famous arch...
Fort of S. Francisco Xavier Miguel Léscole 1661-62. It was built for the restoration war in 1661, along with so many other forts on this Atlantic front, such as Leça, Vila do Conde and several other fortifications on the coast between Viana do Cas...
The 1878 proposal by the Eiffel society for the Luis I Bridge only contemplated a deck at the level of the Ribeira. In 1879 the government launches a new contest, and Eiffel partner Theophile Seyrig wins and the bridge is built between 1881 and 1886
