Sunday, April 3, 2011

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Portugal Porto: Avenida dos Aliados Area /

Praça da Liberdade, a statue of Pedro IV and Avenida dos Aliados
Oporto, located at the mouth of the Douro River, is the second largest city of Portugal and industrial motor country. At first glance looks like a fishing village full of bridges and anarchic rabelos which grew in a maze of narrow streets and houses of multiple colors. That picture gives a special charm, almost nostalgic. Oporto
revolves around the Avenida dos Aliados, with the buildings 'art nouveau' twentieth century, ending the Praça da Liberdade (center of public transport in the city which is dominated by the equestrian statue of Pedro IV and the City, and just two minutes from the Estação de São Bento, one of the two main intercity stations Oporto), in addition to the Praça Don Joao I, the market and the Praça da Bolhao Batalha.
Nearby is the church two congregations and I know the streets of Santa Catarina, the main shopping street with flagship stores such as the Café Majestic America or the Library, a few meters. And in the environment of the area, you can see many traces of the baroque as the Church and Clergy Torre dos or do Carmo and Carmelite churches.
Avenida dos Aliados y Ayuntamiento (Oporto)
»» Edificios y espacios de interés :
» Praça da Liberdade: La Plaza de la Libertad comunica el Oporto antiguo y el moderno. En el centro de la plaza destaca la estatua ecuestre del rey Pedro IV, un monumento de diez metros de altura hecho en bronce por el escultor belga Antoine Calmels entre 1862 y 1866. La figura representa al monarca portando la Carta Constitucional que muestra al pueblo. Desde la Plaza de la Libertad sale la Avenida de los Aliados, llena de edificios modernistas de principio del siglo XX como el Ayuntamiento (Paços do Concelho), front of the Igreja da Trindade, or some banks. Some restaurants such as McDonalds, retain their peculiar modernist decoration. In nearby Rua do Magalhaes Lemos is the Rivoli Municipal Theater to lead to the Praça Dom Joao I.
"Rua 31 de Janeiro : This steep, typical shopping street at both ends has two interesting churches: Igreja two congregations, the seventeenth century with the facade covered with tiles, designed by Jorge Colaço, describing the life of San Antonio and the Igreja de Santo Ildefonso. This typical facade with tiles and built between 1730 and 1737, and in the vicinity of the Praça da Batalha , place where the Teatro Nacional Sao Joao, the former building emblazoned Posts and Telegraphs and the monument to Peter V.
Rua Santa Catarina (Porto)
"Rua de Santa Catarina : This long pedestrian street, the heart of the shopping area of \u200b\u200bPorto, is located in the upper part of the city. Start at Praça da Batalha and ends at the Plaza del Marqués de Pombal. The whole street is lined with shops, street vendors, restaurants and cafes.
The number 112 is the Café Majestic [ Official Web ] , an elegant venue opened on December 17, 1921 under the name of Café Elite and which became the meeting place of famous personalities of the age and source of inspiration for writers and artists. He remained in neglect during fifteen years until the state was declared cultural heritage in 1983 and reopened in 1994.
At the junction with Rua Fernandes Tomas Capella is the das Almas, a small chapel lined with blue tiles so typical of Portugal. Very close is the Mercado do Bolhao (Rua Alexandre Braga), opened in 1914. Inside this vast, decaying building is preserved the essence of the city of Oporto.
"Estação de São Bento: Sao Bento station was built at the beginning of last century in the place where was the Sao Bento Convent Ave Maria. The entrance hall is covered with twenty thousand blue tiles painted by artist Jorge Colacao between 1905 and 1930 (currently being restored) that represent historic landscapes, rural traditions and allusions Luso northern rail and transport history. At the main entrance is accessed by the vivacious Praça de Almeida Garrett Avenue where it begins D. Afonso Henriques approaching the Sé
Cloisters of the Cathedral (Oporto)
"Be : Oporto Cathedral was built in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and is of Romanesque style but was significantly amended in other styles throughout its history. It is situated atop a hill, the Terreiro da Sé, and its appearance resembles a fortress. The two towers that surround the temple gate and the rose window are located above the main remains of the Romanesque style. The interior is divided into three naves with barrel vault and the decor is sober except the high altar and chapels great ornamentation in baroque style. To the left of the apse the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament with an ornate silver altar, built in the second half of the seventeenth century by Portuguese artists. In the southern part of the temple was access to the chapel of St. Vincent and the impressive cloister, the Gothic style and decorated with tiles that reflect religious and pagan scenes. Gothic is also the chapel of St. John the Evangelist (XIV century), where the tomb of a knight of the Order of Malta João Gordo. Adjoining the cathedral is the Casa do Cabildo, designed by Nicolau Nasoni in 1772. In the Square (Palace Square of Sé) is the magnificent Palace (Paço) Episcopal original XIII century, in the middle of it there is a pick Pelourinho (column where the criminals were hung) Manueline style and opposite a medieval tower with remains of the original wall and the statue of the leader Peres Vímara .
"Casa-Museu Guerra Junqueiro (Rua de Dom Hugo, 32): In the back of the Sé, surrounded by a peaceful garden, this museum is an eighteenth century house with a fabulous collection Ibero-Islamic art assembled by the poet Abilio Junqueiro War (1850-1923), as well as furniture, silver jewelry and Portuguese. At number 5 rue Dom Hugo is an Archaeological Museum ( Arqueosíttio) .
Church and Tower of the Clerics (Oporto)
"Igreja e Torre dos Clerics (Rua de San Felipe de Nery): This set is the reference architecture of Baroque art in Oporto. Nasoni is the work of a Tuscan painter and decorator who worked from 1732 to 1763 for free on the work, commissioned by the Clergy Brotherhood of the Poor. The place where the whole is a high known as Cerro two Aforcados (Hill of the Hanged) because it is buried the executed at the nearby Palace Square of Sé The facade of the Church of the Clerics is lavishly decorated and the plant is elliptical. The church has an altarpiece made in four-color polychrome marble, the work of Manuel Porto. The vaulted ceiling is covered with marble, with twelve columns and the center is a shield and granite elliptical shape with the initials AM (Ave Maria), the keys of St. Peter and the papal miter. The altars, pulpits and galleries are Baroque-Rococo style. They highlight the two church bodies and the shrine next to the stairs of the altar. Nasoni is buried in the area of \u200b\u200bthe pulpit as an honorary member of the brotherhood of the poor clergy.
In the church of the clergy also found the remains of the martyr St. Innocent, patriarch of Lisbon. The tower
construction began in 1754 and completed in 1763. It is the highest tower of Portugal with six floors, 225 steps and 76 meters high, is made of granite and from it you can see the best views of Oporto. In its exterior is richly decorated inside is narrow and poor decor. Due to its location is visible from many parts of the city and for many years was a reference to the vessels that sailed down the Douro.
"Lello Bookshop and Irmao (Rua dos Carmelites): Located near the Tower of the Clergy, is what is considered as Europe's most beautiful library in a Gothic style building built in 1906. Inside, huge wooden shelves filled with books reach the ceiling and a beautiful queen carved wooden staircase in the center of the room, while the glass ceiling natural light projected, giving life to this scenario can not be beaten. This library has been used as a backdrop to shoot some film of Harry Potter.
Carmelite Church of Carmo (Porto)
"Igreja do Carmo e Carmelites (Rua do Carmo): The Igreja do Carmo (from Carmen) was built by the Carmelite Sisters, with project de Figueiredo Seixas, in the second half of the eighteenth century (between 1756 and 1768) in baroque rococo. It has a large panel of tiles covering the front side that represents the foundation of the Order of the Carmelite Sisters in 1912. The façade is baroque and rococo Nasoni work, although several images of the facade (the images of Santa Ana and images of the prophets Elisha and Elijah) was carved in Italy and brought to Oporto for incorporation into the church. The interior has a single nave and contains a high altar with six side altars, all in size it is dorada.Junta Igreja former two Carmelites.
"" Bibliography: »Brochures Porto Tourist Office (March 2011)» Portugal (Key Guides) (Editorial Espasa)
»Links: " Guide Oporto (Main Source text) "Porto Tourism " Camara Municipal do Porto »About Portugal " Oporto Guide (2)
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