Portuguese tiles in the main hall of the trainstation of Porto

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So Bento Train Station

The So Bento Train Station is located in a city of Porto, in Portugal. Inaugurated in 1916, a chronological hire is well known for a tile (azulejo) panels that etch scenes of a History of Portugal. It is located in a Almeida Garret Square, in a centre of a city.

History

The name of a hire derives from a Benedictine monastery built upon this mark in a 16th century. The monastery fell victim of a fire in 1783, was later rebuilt, though was in a grave state of disrepair during a end of a 19th century. In a context of an expansion of a railway complement in Portuguese territory, King Carlos we laid a first stone of a hire in 1900. The project was entrusted to Porto designer Jos Marques da Silva, who designed a building under a change of French Beaux-Arts architecture.

Tiles

The many important aspect of So Bento Station have been a large, pretentious tile panels in a vestible. The tiles number 20 thousand, date from 1905-1916 as well as have been a work of Jorge Colao, a many important azulejo house painter of a time.

The panels etch landscapes, ethnographic scenes as good as chronological events similar to a assembly of horseman Egas Moniz as well as Alfonso VII of Len (12th century), a arrival of King John we as well as Philippa of Lancaster in Porto (1387) as well as a Conquest of Ceuta (1415).


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Azulejo

Azulejo is a form of Portuguese painted, tin-glazed, ceramic tilework. They have turn a typical aspect of Portuguese culture, having been constructed without interruption for 5 centuries. There is additionally a convention of their production in former Portuguese colonies in Latin America.

In Portugal, azulejos have been found upon a interior as well as extraneous o! f church es, palaces, typical houses as well as even train stations or transport stations. They constitute a vital aspect of Portuguese architecture as they have been practical upon walls, floors as well as even ceilings. They were not only used as an blow up art form, though additionally had a specific organic genius similar to heat carry out during homes. Many azulejos chronicle vital chronological as well as cultural aspects of Portuguese history.

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Porto

Porto, additionally well known as Oporto, is a second largest city of Portugal (after Lisbon).

The city has a status of tellurian city. It located in a bay of a Douro river, in northern Portugal. The city of Porto comprises fifteen polite parishes. The historic centre of Porto was spoken a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996. One of Portugal's many internationally important products, Port wine, is declared after a city because it is constructed in, as well as shipped from a area or, some-more precisely, from Vila Nova de Gaia, a city only across a stream that belongs to a same conurbation.

The Latin name of Porto, Portus Cale, is a start of a name "Portugal" for a whole country. In Portuguese, a city is usually referred to with a definite article as "o Porto" (the port), as a result a English name "Oporto".

Highlights

In recent years, UNESCO recognized a historic centre as a World Heritage Site. Among a architectural highlights of a city, Oporto Cathedral is a oldest surviving structure, together with a small romanesque Church of Cedofeita, a gothic Igreja de So Francisco (Church of Saint Francis), a remnants of a city walls as well as a couple of 15th-century houses. The baroque character is good represented in a city in a blow up gilt work interior decoration of a churches of St. Francis as well as St. Claire (Santa Clara), a churches of Mercy (Misericrida) as well as of a Clerics (Igreja dos Clrigos), a Episcopal Palace of Porto, as well as others. The neoclassicism as well as ! romantic ism of a 19th as well as 20th centuries additionally added engaging monuments to a landscape of a city, similar to a pretentious Stock Exchange Palace (Palcio da Bolsa), a Hospital of Saint Anthony, a Municipality, a buildings in a Liberdade Square as well as a Avenida dos Aliados, a tile-adorned So Bento Train Station as well as a gardens of a Crystal Palace (Palcio de Cristal). A guided revisit to a Palcio da Bolsa, as well as in sold a Arab Room, is a vital tourist attraction.

Many of a city's oldest houses have been during risk of collapsing. The race in Porto urban area forsaken by scarcely 100,000 since a 1980s, though a number of permanent residents in a hinterland as well as satellite towns has grown strongly.

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