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The Porto Customshouse Congress Centre (Portuguese: Centro de Congressos da Alfândega) is a convention centre and former-customshouse situated in the civil parish in Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the northern Portuguese municipality of Porto.
A maquette of the medieval town of Porto, with its earlier, "Suevan"/Sé walls - the Fernandina Walls covered a significantly larger area and reached the riverfront The gate Postigo do Carvão dating to 1348 The rectangular watchtowers and visible fortifications A staircase alongside segment of the fortifications
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 station is located in the Historic Centre of Porto, which has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site and as a National Monument of Portugal. [ 2 ] This building was constructed over a number of years, starting in 1904, based on plans by architect José Marques da Silva.
The town's plan served as a template for settlements in Portuguese colonies. [27] Selvagens Islands: North Atlantic Ocean 2017 vii, viii, ix, x (natural) This group of uninhabited volcanic islands and islets is located between Madeira and the Canary Islands. They are the smallest and the oldest (27 million years old) archipelago of Macaronesia ...
The stone roof of the central aisle is supported by flying buttresses, making the building one of the first in Portugal to use this architectonic feature. This first Romanesque building has suffered many alterations but the general aspect of the façade has remained romanesque. Inner view of rose window and central aisle of Porto Cathedral.
1865 - 18 September: 1865 International Exhibition opens in Porto; Crystal Palace built. [6] 1868 - O Primeiro de Janeiro newspaper and Gazeta Literária do Porto begin publication. [10] 1870 - Alfândega Porto Congress Centre built. 1872 - Horsecar tram begins operating. 1876 - Municipal Library of Porto established. 1877 Campanhã railway ...
Quaresma, Maria Clementina de Carvalho (1995), Inventário Artístico de Portugal - Cidade do Porto (in Portuguese), vol. 13, Lisbon, Portugal {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher Cordeiro, José Manuel Lopes (1 November 2011), "Ex-libris do Porto faz 125 anos", O Tripeiro (in Portuguese) (Série 2 ed.), pp. 328– 329