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Palácio da Bolsa, view from the front. 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 City Park is the largest urban park in Portugal covering an area of 83 hectares. The park was designed by the landscape architect Sidónio Pardal and opened in 1993. [49] [50] Jardim do Infante dom Henrique The garden of Prince Henry the Navigator in front of the Palácio da Bolsa is a popular small park for picnics and sunning. [51]
Palácio da Bolsa; Palácio das Cardosas; Palácio dos Carrancas; Palácio do Bolhão; Palácio do Freixo; Episcopal Palace of Porto; Palacete Pinto Leite; Palácio de São Bento da Vitória; Palácio de São João Novo; Palácio dos Terenas; Palacete dos Viscondes de Balsemão
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In the mid-18th century the city needed new urban improvements to provide for the swift flow of goods and people between the Ribeira neighbourhood and other areas of Porto. In this context, governor João de Almada e Melo opened a new street, the São João Street, that connected the Ribeira Square and the upper town, and promoted the ...
A stock exchange (Bolsa do Porto, 1834 – 1910 [44]) was also established in the city but was discontinued in 1910 following the implementation of the Republic, with the building being returned to the Association in 1911. [45] Unrest by Republicans led to the 31 January 1891 revolt in Porto, the first uprising against the Portuguese monarchy.
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.
The Church of Cedofeita (Portuguese: Igreja de Cedofeita) is a medieval church in the civil parish of Cedofeita, municipality of Porto, in the northern Grande Porto Subregion of Portugal. The Church is a rare architectural example of a single-nave vaulted-ceiling temple, and the only one in the traditional Entre-Douro-e-Minho Province region of ...