Avenida Calouste Gulbenkian
| Avenida Calouste Gulbenkian | |
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| Wall with azulejos by João Abel Manta | |
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| place | Lisbon |
| District | Campolide |
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| Street length | 1500 m |
The Avenida Calouste Gulbenkian is a main thoroughfare in the west of the Portuguese capital Lisbon . It is named after the Armenian businessman and philanthropist Calouste Gulbenkian (1869–1955).
history
The Avenida was created in the first half of the 1960s as part of an overall road system, the northern city center at Campo Grande with the Tagus located Alcântara connects. It leads from the Praça de Espanha down for 1.5 kilometers into the Vale de Alcântara and there opens into the Avenida de Ceuta . At the same time, the road serves as a bypass for the higher-lying municipality of Campolide .
Large retaining walls below Campolide were decorated with azulejos by the Portuguese artist João Abel Manta in 1970–1982 . At the level of the Campolide train station , a pedestrian tunnel crosses the street, which creates a connection between the train station and the urban area of the municipality.
At the suggestion of the Rotary Club and two comments in the daily newspapers Diário da Manhã (September 9, 1962) and O Século (July 20, 1964), who called for a street to be named after Gulbenkian near the foundation he had established , the avenue was given by decree of August 18, 1966, the name of the philanthropist.
Web links
- Avenida Calouste Gulbenkian in Toponímia de Lisboa