Places
Francisco Teixeira / CMM
Regular Visits
Tours
Sat 14h00, Tourism Technician / Sat 16h00, City Hall President Luísa Salgueiro
Maximum 40 people per visit
No reservation required; first-come, first-served
Wheelchair access
Photography allowed
Description
The City Hall (1987) is the result of a public competition of ideas promoted in 1980. Its spatial organization and conception highlights the public space and the relationship between exterior and interior. The contrast between the naves with double and triple height, in relation to the atrium and the vertical accesses, and the galleries that take you to services – highlights a space that we want qualified with democratic participation, and that is reached in the municipal assembly and the noble hall, open, without limit, to a wider and better spatiality. Historically, the image and language symbolically adopt the marble and, linguistically, Aldo Rossi’s theories of rationalism and functionalism. Finishes and ceramic coatings give texture and work the light that invades the inside. Simultaneously monumental and amicable, it materializes the representation and proximity to the citizen wished a few years after the revolution of April 25th 1974.
Location
Avenida D. Afonso Henriques
Directions: Google Maps / Apple Maps
Public Transport
Subway: Linha A - Câmara Matosinhos
Bus: STCP - 505, 506, 507