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<title><![CDATA[International Day of Monuments and Places - From Sé to Ribeira]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The second visit of the day, of which I promised to talk about yesterday, was truly great. In contra]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">The second visit of the day, of which I promised to talk about yesterday, was truly great. In contrary to the morning visit, the circuit that takes you from the Cathedral (Sé) to Ribeira is one I know well, but it seems I still had a lot to find out!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">This time the guide was an architect whose name is António Moura. From 1975 he worked in the urban renewal of the area from Sé to Ribeira in projects developed for that effect, first by the government and later by the city. Owing to that, there was the opportunity of learning a bit more from the contemporary history of this city I love so much, but that I haven&#8217;t been exploring for long&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Porto is a merchant&#8217;s city that earned its living from the commercial exchanges to which Douro&#8217;s quay in Ribeira was of the utmost importance. Thus, the city grew from there. With time, boats and traffic got bigger and, due to the difficult shape of the port&#8217;s entrance, many shipwrecks occurred. That&#8217;s when the project of Leixões&#8217; port started taking shape. It was opened on 1938 and Douro&#8217;s port started to lose its traffic till in the 1960s it was shut down. That brought revolt and degradation to Ribeira, with organized groups of inhabitants making it difficult for any intervention in the area. After the 25th April 1975 (when the Portuguese dictatorship fell) the inhabitants with worst conditions were relocated to a social neighbourhood, what made it possible to start the urban renewal project I&#8217;ve mentioned before. This project refurbished the houses, offering them previously nonexistent conditions, like toilets&#8230;As it was aimed for the local inhabitants, who after the renewal would return home and who pay very low rents, in 2003 the political power decided the project had to stop, as it didn&#8217;t bring any financial return. We weren&#8217;t able to get into any of the houses &#8217;cause we were a big group, but the guide told us he wouldn&#8217;t have mind keeping a few houses for himself!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The circuit of the area took us to several places and brought many stories, that I think may be a bit boring to read in a blog. Even more because I was to interested in what was being said during the tour, I kind of forgot to take pics, so there aren&#8217;t many to help me illustrate it&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I&#8217;ll leave you a list of the places and the few photos I shot. Cathedral (stories of French Invasions and hidden treasures), The Association of Portuguese Architects (where the 1st archeological findings from before the Romans in the city were found), Casa Museu de Guerra Junqueiro, Paço Episcopal (bishop&#8217;s house &#8211; not open to the public, only in special occasions), Grilos&#8217; Church (stories of the city&#8217;s hierarchies involving religious orders and stories about Marquês de Pombal and the Távoras), Palácio das Artes, Ferreira Borges&#8217; Market (a copy of Les Halles in Paris), Casa do Infante (architectonic curiosities and stories about kings). Once more I tell you, when you visit these places in my company, ask me for the stories&#8230; <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Desta feita, o guia era o arquitecto António Moura, que desde 1975 trabalhou na renovação urbana da freguesia da Sé, primeiro no CRUARB (Comissariado para a Renovação Urbana da Área da Ribeira) e depois nos projectos que se lhe seguiram com o mesmo intuito, até ao actual vazio de projectos. Por esse motivo, houve a oportunidade de aprender um pouco mais sobre a história contemporânea da cidade que eu tanto gosto, mas que apenas comecei a explorar há coisa de 10 anos&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">O Porto é uma cidade de mercadores que vivia das trocas comerciais para as quais o porto do Douro, na ribeira, tinha uma grande importância, tendo a cidade crescido partindo do porto. Com o passar dos anos as embarcações foram-se tornando maiores e em maior número devido ao aumendo do tráfego. Devido à sua forma, com uma entrada estreita, o porto do Douro foi-se tornando cada vez mais difícil de navegar, tendo ocorrido vários naufrágios. Começaram assim a surgir os planos para o porto de Leixões, hoje o maior porto artificial de Portugal, que inaugurou no ano de 1938. A partir daí o porto do Douro foi sendo sucessivamente abandonado, tendo deixado de funcionar nos anos 60. Esse afastamento da maior fonte de trabalho da zona levou a uma grande degradação da área, com grupos de moradores revoltados que tornavam difícil uma intervenção. Depois do 25 de Abril houve o realojamento dos habitantes mais carenciados da zona da ribeira para o Bairro do Aleixo, o que, não obstante todos os problemas que possa ter criado, permitiu que se iniciasse um projecto de reabilitação da zona da ribeira, surgindo assim o CRUARB. Inicialmente sob a tutela do governo central e mais tarde, a partir 1982, sob a tutela da Câmara do Porto com outro nome (Direcção do Projecto Municipal de Renovação Urbana do Centro Histórico do Porto), o projecto detinava-se à renovação das casas da ribeira, conferindo-lhe condições de habitabilidade que antes não possuiam, como por exemplo, casa-de-banho&#8230;Visto que era um projecto que tinha como objectivo a manutenção dos habitantes originais nas suas casas, habitantes esses de longa data e de rendas baixas, em 2003 o poder político considerou que era um projecto sem retorno financeiro e que, por isso, teria de ser terminado. Infelizmente, como eramos um grupo grande, não tivemos o previlégio de entrar em nenhuma destas casas, mas o arquitecto António Moura garantiu-nos que gostaria até de ter ficado com algumas para ele!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">A visita por esta zona levou-nos a vários sítios de interesse e trouxe consigo várias histórias que eu temo serem demasiado maçadoras para escrever em blog. Sobretudo porque devido ao meu interesse acrescentado no que estava a ser dito, não tenho muitas fotos para ilustrar o meu percurso&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Deixo-vos com uma lista dos sítios que visitamos e as poucas fotos que tirei. Sé Catedral (histórias sobre invasões francesas e tesouros escondidos), Ordem dos Arquitectos (onde foram encontrados os primeiros vestígios castrenses na cidade), Casa Museu de Guerra Junqueiro, Paço Episcopal (não aberto ao público, só se pode visitar assim em situações especiais), Igreja dos Grilos (histórias sobre hierarquias da cidade envolvendo Jesuítas e Franciscanos e histórias sobre Marquês de Pombal e Távoras), Palácio das Artes, Mercado Ferreira Borges (cópia do Les Halles em Paris, que agora vou ter mesmo que visitar), Casa do Infante (pequenas curiosidades arquitectónicas e histórias sobre reis). Mais uma vez vos digo, quando lá forem comigo, peçam-me para vos contar as histórias que aprendi e de que vos dei um cheirinho entre parênteses.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[International Day of Monuments and Places – Muralha Fernandina #5]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marianafeijo</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[International Day of Monuments and Places – Muralha Fernandina #4]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Day of Monuments and Places – Muralha Fernandina #3]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marianafeijo</dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marianafeijo</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">This year I&#8217;m discovering a bunch of days I didn&#8217;t know existed. First it was the National Day of Historic Centres, today the International Day of Monuments and Places&#8230;Due to it, today I could participate in two guided tours of the city of Porto. Today I&#8217;ll tell you about the one in the morning and for tomorrow I&#8217;ll save the best of the day.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The tour was dedicated to the wall that limited the city in D. Fernando&#8217;s (king of Portugal) era and the guide was an art historian. It wasn&#8217;t a greatly informative tour, but it took me to places where I rarely go or where I&#8217;ve never been. The circuit was made through the places where the wall is or used to be.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The visit started in the best kept part of the wall, next to the old building of Instituto Ricardo Jorge, where, for my amazement, you can walk on the wall and have wonderful views of the city sights. We continued through R. da Madeira till S. Bento&#8217;s train station and kept on till Cadeia da Relação and R. das Taipas, where, if you pay attention, you can see bits of wall between the houses.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">This detail takes me to my first big discovery of the day! The houses in this area (and other areas where the wall existed) were built using the wall as one of their 4 façades. For that reason, those are the places where the wall is at its purest state, but it&#8217;s hidden between the houses which used it as their façades, you can only see it by ringing the bell&#8230;and we didn&#8217;t do it in this visit.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The visit continued with a stop in a centre of social assistance in R. das Virtudes, where we once more had great views of the city and could see a bit of the wall. We kept going until Ribeira, where the wall exists and is where the river stops.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Here, a little stop for a bit of history. The wall&#8217;s destruction was mostly done in the time of the Almadas, who had the plan of opening up the streets and squares of the city, like Marquês de Pombal had done in Lisbon. To note that Marquês de Pombal benefited, or took advantage, the destruction brought about by 1755 earthquake. One of the Almadas&#8217; project was to make a square similar to Terreiro do Paço (Lisbon) in Pça do Cubo. The rain didn&#8217;t let me take pictures to the details that show that, so ask me to show them to you when we go there together. <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The end of the tour was basically to come back to the starting point, i.e., to walk all the way up again!!! We did it through Escadas dos Guindais.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">This and the next posts will illustrate this description with photos. <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Como se pode deduzir pelo título do post, a visita foi dedicada à muralha fernandina e o guia era um senhor historiador de arte, de quem só me recordo do primeiro nome (Francisco). Não foi uma visita muito informativa, mas foi um passeio por sítios onde raramente ou nunca passei, com caminho orientado pelos locais por onde a muralha passava.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">O início da visita foi pela zona mais conservada da muralha fernandina, junto ao antigo edifício do Instituto Ricardo Jorge, onde para meu espanto, se pode andar sobre a muralha, com vistas fantásticas sobre a paisagem portuense. Seguiu-se a R. da Madeira até à estação de S. Bento, antigamente Mosteiro de S. Bento (destruído para dar origem à estação). Seguimos até à frente da Cadeia da Relação descendo a R. das Taipas, onde se se prestar atenção se consegue ver as muralhas entre as casas.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Este pormenor leva-me à primeira grande descoberta do dia! (e ao primeiro aparte) As casas dessa zona, e de outras onde passava a muralha, foram construidas usando a muralha como uma das quatro fachadas. Por esse motivo, é nesses locais onde a muralha se encontra no seu estado mais puro, mas está escondida entre duas casas que a usaram como fachada, só sendo possível vê-la tocando à campainha dos moradores, coisa que não fizemos na visita.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">A visita seguiu com uma paragem no Serviço de Assistência das Organizações de Maria (S.A.O.M.), com sede na R. das Virtudes e onde é mais uma vez possível ter uma vista belíssima sobre a cidade e vislumbrar um pouco de muralha conservada. Seguimos até à ribeira, onde a muralha existe como muro onde o rio bate e um pouco esventrada na zona dos arcos, já que só um deles é original. Aqui houve oportunidade para mais uma descoberta (e para o segundo aparte).</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Toda, ou grande parte, da destruição da muralha, foi feita na época dos Almadas, que tinham como plano alargar as vias e praças da cidade, à imagem do que foi feito por Marquês de Pombal em Lisboa (que no seu caso benefeciou, ou aproveitou, a destruição causada pelo terramoto de 1755). Um dos projectos pensados, era para a Pça do Cubo na ribeira, onde pretendiam fazer uma praça à imagem do Terreiro do Paço em Lisboa. Não tirei fotografias dos pormenores que o comprovam, porque chovia muito na altura, mas quando lá forem comigo, lembrem-me para vos mostrar. <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">O final da visita limitou-se a fazer o regresso ao ponto de partida, continuando a seguir o percurso da muralha, ou seja, subir!!! Fizemo-lo pelas escadas dos Guindais.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Este e os próximos posts ilustrarão este percurso com imagens <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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