With a single margin prolonged between the unknown of what is yet to come and a city left in postponement, the flat axis is extended in an indivisible breath. The road unrolled over the meeting point, connecting the East to the steep cradle of memory,… Ler | Read »The “Avenida”
The heroic cliff resists the stubborn onslaught of streams. The patron saint’s house, remodeled to the taste of the centuries and the caprices of misfortunes, serves as a weighted lookout over the street tangles. Next to it, the fort of Saint James takes on the… Ler | Read »The “Barreirinha”
The plow of the centuries does not spare places. In what is now a leisure space, the boards of the houses of merchants and fishermen, and the walls of a fort have already been erected. A place that was successively named after a charitable association,… Ler | Read »The “Almirante Reis” Garden
An urban crossroad designed to be a longitudinal platform to the expected routines. The greedy soul refuses the indolence of holy days with the arrogance of an unbeliever. There, where the street becomes an artery for a diffuse heart, each door is an inevitability –… Ler | Read »“Fernão de Ornelas” Street
Before us, in the lap of archaic devotion, the majesty of two lovers: the city and the sea. The horizon allows itself to be traced by the light, becoming a valley and a mountain to the enjoyment of the Atlantic, thus interrupted in its regularity.… Ler | Read »The viewpoint of “Neves”
The imposing sobriety of the building hides a profusion of tones, shapes and noises. The Market is a timeless creature, an organism pliable to the desires of each germination, ready to respond promptly to new challenges. In the central square, amidst the bluster of outdated… Ler | Read »The Market
Like a crosswalk into the familiarity of a home, the Cais da Cidade prolongs its existence onto the sea like an arm hesitant between the embrace of a friend’s arrival and the farewell of his departure. Nearby, on a pedestal of myth, the discoverer Zarco… Ler | Read »The Pier
Esperança Bookstore The adventure begins here, at the door of all kingdoms – in this labyrinthine thirst that runs out between two shelves. Like the strength of a Moses flanked by walls of the sea, crossing the width of the Universe in search of a… Ler | Read »“Esperança” Bookstore
The steepness of the street does not belie the climb. At the top, under the tile-lined tower, the roofs stretch out, scraped by the punishment of five centuries. Santa Clara, the acropolis of a beginning, endures on the surface of the new century – pure… Ler | Read »“Calçada de Santa Clara” Street
Under the branches of the giant tree lingers the void that was once an altar. The presence of the demolished convent is felt in each curved path, between litanies of green and flowered psalms, as some sort of absolute liturgy. The old cloister vanished into… Ler | Read »The Municipal Garden