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Retratos na fachada da Estação do Rossio

Portraits at the façade of Rossio Station

Gabriel Farail
1886

Lisboa /  Retratos na fachada da Estação do Rossio

Description

The station was designed between 1886 and 1887 by Portuguese architect José Luís Monteiro. The façade shows three portraits: in top center King Luís I and in the center of the first floor portraits of the Father of Portuguese Railways Fontes Pereira de Melo and George Stephenson.

Lisboa - Retratos na fachada da Estação do Rossio
António Maria de Fontes Pereira de Melo
(Lisboa 1819 - Lisboa 1887)
Portuguese statesman, politician, and engineer. Prime Minister 1878-79 and 1881-86; pioneered rail transport in Portugal (Wikipedia).
Lisboa - Retratos na fachada da Estação do Rossio
Luís I
(Lisboa 1838 - Cascais 1889)
King of Portugal 1861-1889 (Wikipedia).
Lisboa - Retratos na fachada da Estação do Rossio
George Stephenson
(Wylam-on-Tyne 1781 - Chesterfield 1848)
English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public inter-city railway line in the world to use steam locomotives (Wikipedia).

The statue of King Sebastian in a niche between the two arches is on 3 May 2016 accidentally destroyed by a person who knocked it over by climbing up for a photograph.

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Sources & Information

Tags

  • Country: Portugal
  • Engineer
  • Façade with statues (secular)
  • Farail, Gabriel
  • Fontes Pereira de Melo, António Maria de
  • Luís I (King of Portugal)
  • Monarch
  • Politician/Statesman
  • Stephenson, George
  • Locatie (N 38°42'52" - W 9°8'26") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

    Item Code: ptli011; Photograph: 28 August 2017  / updated: 24 November 2018
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