Almeida Garrett's birthplace
The birthplace of Almeida Garrett is a residential building on the western edge of the historic old town of the Portuguese city of Porto .
The four-story building on Rua do Dr. Barbosa de Castro, No. 37 (until 1933: Rua do Calvário), with three window axes, is part of the closed perimeter block development of the street row. On the facade, in the central axis of the first floor and occupying its entire height, a large, richly decorated plaque in the form of a medallion commemorates the poet, who was born there on February 4, 1799 and lived until 1804.
The inscription reads:
CASA, ONDE NASCEU
AOS
4 DE FEVEREIRO DE 1799,
JOÃO BAPTISTA DA SILVA LEITÃO
DE ALMEIDA GARRETT.
-–-
MANDOU GRAVAR Á MEMORIO DO
GRANDE POETA
A CAMARA MUNICIPAL
D'ESTA CIDADE EM
1864.
House in which
João Baptista da Silva Leitão
de Almeida Garrett was born
on
February 4, 1799 .
-–- Commissioned
to record in memory of the
great poet of
the council of
this city in
1864.
The city of Porto took the first steps in early 2019 to acquire the vacant building and use it as the Museu do Liberalismo for the Liberal Revolution of 1820 when the building burned down completely on April 27, 2019.
source
- Casa onde Nasceu Almeida Garrett in the Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico (Portuguese)
Web links
- Casa de Almeida Garrett. Photo on Flickr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Casa de Garrett no Porto ardeu na semana em que câmara fez proposta de compra. Público , April 27, 2019 (Portuguese).
Coordinates: 41 ° 8 ′ 38.2 " N , 8 ° 37 ′ 4.1" W.