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Palácio da Bolsa, view from near the Porto cathedral The Stock Exchange Palace ( Portuguese : Palácio da Bolsa ) is a historical building in Porto , Portugal . The palace was built in the 19th century by the city's Commercial Association ( Portuguese : Associação Comercial do Porto ) in Neoclassical style . [ 1 ]
Porto's Crystal Palace was designed by English architect Thomas Dillen Jones and the Anglo-Irish engineer Francis Webb Sheilds.It was built at Torre da Marca on the edge of the city centre in granite, iron and glass, with the Crystal Palace in London serving as a model, as Jones and Sheilds had both worked on that building.
Pousadas de Portugal (European Portuguese pronunciation: [poˈzaðɐʒ ðɨ puɾtuˈɣal]) is a chain of luxury, traditional or historical hotels in Portugal.Formerly run by the Portuguese State, they are now run by the Pestana Group, which in September 2003 won a public bid for the sale of 37.6% of parent company Enatur and for a 40-year running concession.
1988 - April: Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses meets in Porto. [17] 1996 - Porto designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site. 1997 - Portuguese Centre of Photography founded. 1999 Serralves museum [18] and Hotel Vila Galé [7] built. Nuno Cardoso becomes mayor. 2000 - Cm-porto.pt website online (approximate date). [19]
Centro Histórico do Porto The Historic center of Porto, listed as a World Heritage Site in 1996, is the oldest area of the cities of Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia, with a 2000-year history. Built on the hill that dominates the mouth of the Douro river, it has a number of varied monuments in different styles. [1]
The front facade along the Praça do Infante D. Henrique Portion of the Roman excavations within the "museum". The Casa do Infante is addorsed to buildings in the historic centre of the city, along the riverbank, with its principal facade oriented to the inclined slope descending the Praça do Infante D. Henrique towards the Largo do Terreiro and access to the Cais da Estiva along the Douro.
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