Palácio da Justiça (Figueira da Foz)
The Palácio de Justiça (German Justizpalast ) is a courthouse in the center of the port city of Figueira da Foz , a seaside resort in Portugal . It belongs to the municipality of São Julião and is located in the Parque Municipal, not far from the Mondego River .
The building was created according to plans by the architect Raul Rodrigues Lima (1909–1979), who, with 43 palaces of justice, played a key role in the design of the new court buildings of the Estado Novo regime in the 1950s and 1960s. The Palace of Justice in Figueira da Foz was built by construction brigades made up of prisoners. It was inaugurated on August 15, 1961 and expanded twice in the 1980s.
Architecturally, the building is based on neoclassicism . It is not one of the most conspicuous works by Rodrigues Lima, who cited court buildings from Paris, Vienna and Milan in his palaces of justice.
In the database of the Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico (SIPA) the building has the number 16290.
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- ↑ Information about the building on the SIPA website (port.), Accessed on March 10, 2014
Coordinates: 40 ° 8 '58.1 " N , 8 ° 51' 37.8" W.