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Showing posts with label Train Stations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Train Stations. Show all posts

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Visit Castelo Branco Train Station

The Castelo Branco Railway Station, located in the Parish of Castelo Branco, is a railroad interface of the Beira Baixa Line, which serves the town of Castelo Branco and was inaugurated in 1891.

Monday, February 18, 2019

Visit the Pedestrian Walk of Serra da Nogueira - Nogueira (Bragança)

The route starts in Sortes, next to the Mother Church, then taking the Tua Line in the direction of Remisquedo. When you reach the stop, follow the N15 to reach the tunnel that crosses the IP4. Once again on a rural road, the route goes to Cruzeiro das Almas. A few meters later, we pass by a dive fountain and we are in the center of the village. There is an opportunity to visit the Parish Church of Mós (baroque style), and a community Forge. The return to Sortes is in the direction of the Paçó de Sortes, passing in the vicinity of a quarry. When you leave the Paçó de Sortes, the route will once again cross the IP4, following rural roads until you return to the Tua line, which will take you back to Sortes.
Already in the final stretch, it passes through the building of the old railway station of Sortes (the second station of the Line of the Tua, in the sense Bragança - Tua), which was recently renovated and currently serves as the seat of Parish Council.

Saturday, July 7, 2018

Visit Tadim Train Station

The Tadim Railway Station is located in the center of the parish. The station building was inaugurated in 1875 and totally remodeled in 2004 under the renovation of the Braga branch and the Minho Line.

Thursday, June 21, 2018

Visit Ruilhe Railway Station

The Railway Station of Ruilhe is a railway infrastructure of the Branch of Braga, that serves the locality of Ruilhe.

Thursday, June 14, 2018

Visit Braga Arts Station - Maximinos (Braga)

The Station de Artes, located in the Parish of Maximinos is a School of Arts and Shows in Braga. The Arts Station offers courses, workshps and classes for the training of the smallest and most grown in areas such as Music, Dance, Theater, Photography, Drawing, Painting, Writing, Therapeutic Art, Natural Medicine Therapies, among others.
It has a Concert Café with Stage and an average of 300 seats for student presentations, theme nights, karaokes, presentation of new talents, among others.
It operates in the old building of the Braga Railway Station.

Sunday, June 10, 2018

Visit the Railway Station of Aveleda (Braga)

The Aveleda Railway Station, originally called Avelleda, is a branch of the Braga branch. This branch was inaugurated on May 21, 1875.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Visit the station Railways of Aveiro - Vera Cruz (Aveiro)

The railway station of Aveiro, located in the town of Vera Cruz (Aveiro), has a façade completely decorated polychrome tiles in blue and yellow tones, representing several railway, natural and traditional activities and culture scenes. The building consists of three sections, a central part, three floors, that includes three large doors at ground level and two symmetrical sides, with two floors, having a gate and two shutters of rectangular section. This station is assumed as a good example, at regional level, the style called Casa Portuguesa.
The works via the station began, respectively, in August 1861 and in early 1862, having taken place on the opening day April 10, 1864

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Visit the station Railways Agolada - Fajardo

Agolada Railway Station, located in the Town of Fajardo, the interface is a former New Line Sales.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Visit the station paths Iron Granja - São Felix da Marinha

The railway station of the Farm, located in the Parish of St. Felix of the Navy, has fantastic tile panels as well as the beautiful finish around the windows.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Visit Station Railways Vide

Station Vide is a building with graceful lines, pleasing in its path in its granite worked in the eaves and talon and beautiful panels of polychrome tiles, painted by L Batistini in 1933.
The motives of the exterior panels are even suggestive. There are pigs in the meadow, picking olives, costumes and the village field, horse breeding, sheep herding, with threshing wheat beasts, drawing the cork, plowing the land with mules, sowing, harvesting, transportation of wheat for threshing, the Clock Tower at Town Hall and the Pillory.
High on the facade, there is another panel framed with flowers, a coat of Quinas the center.
The station was decommissioned decades ago and recently underwent an intervention of recovery and adaptation transforming it into the present magnificent Queen Cottages Leonor.