Parque de Serralves
The Parque de Serralves is an inner-city park in the Portuguese city of Porto , it is located in the municipality of Lordelo do Ouro . The 18.43 hectare park was designed in its current form in 1932 by the French landscape architect Jacques Gréber . In the park is the Serralves Museum , a museum of contemporary art, and the Casa de Serralves , an Art Deco style villa .
history
The original garden of the Quinta do Lordelo , an agricultural homestead of the Count of Vizela, was much smaller than the current park. The garden was created by local gardeners who were influenced by garden models from the late 19th century in the Victorian style. The original garden with organically designed flower beds and ornamental ornaments was built around the rear part of the homestead. By purchasing land, the area was enlarged to its present size by 1940 and included several buildings - a hunting pavilion, a farm, olive press and farm buildings.
After Carlos Alberto Cabral, second Count of Vizela, had visited the World Exhibition of Applied Arts and Industrial Design in Paris in 1925 , he decided to redesign the site. He commissioned the French landscape architect Jacques Gréber to design the new garden. The project, whose design dates back to 1932, is characterized by the styles of Art Deco and modern classicism, influenced by French gardens of the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Serralves Gardens, as designed by Jacques Gréber, are considered to be one of the first examples of artistic garden design in Portugal in the first half of the 20th century. At that time it was the only private garden design project in Portugal.
The park today
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Today the park extends over about 700 m in north-south direction with a width in east-west direction between 400 m in the north and 200 m in the south. It is divided into two larger sections: the park of the Casa de Serralves in the northern half and the more agricultural southern half around the farmstead Quinta do Mata-Sete .
The Casa de Serralves was built on the edge of the park in the northwest. In front of the villa's garden-side terrace is the central, slightly sloping ground floor with a fountain at the lower end. Another ground floor extends to the east of the villa towards the main gate and is accompanied by an avenue of tall American sweetgum trees . To the south are the rose garden , the Jardim do Relógio del Sol (garden of the sundial ) and the historic tennis court; the tea house - the garden cafe - is housed in its outbuildings. In the east, the park includes the museum building of the Fundação de Serralves from that in an open meadow and heathland with heaths and lean yew is embedded.
The area drops sharply from the fountain at the end of the central ground floor, and a two-flight staircase leads to a small pond with a small island and a boathouse in the form of a grotto . Another staircase leads to a small square that marks the border with the rural part of the garden. To the east, a path leads through a small ascending valley with majestic eucalyptus trees back towards the museum.
From the small square the path runs as a chestnut avenue through meadows and pastures to another square surrounded by pine and trumpet trees with the old oil mill, from which the herb garden with the lemon grove and the buildings of the Quinta do Mata-Sete can be reached. The quinta is still partially managed today and has a vegetable training garden and stables for cattle and horses.
Casa de Serralves
The Casa de Serralves is an outstanding example of streamlined modernism in Portugal and was built by the Portuguese architect José Marques da Silva . The second Count of Vizela, Carlos Alberto Cabral, commissioned the construction of the villa. The building was built between 1925 and 1944 in what was then the outer area of the city of Porto and combines elements of the neoclassical, romantic and art deco architectural styles. Originally the villa served as a private residence from which the Rua de Serralves could be overlooked. Today the Serralves Foundation is located in the villa, and the building is also used for temporary exhibitions by the Serralves Museum and for events.
Serralves Museum
On the northwest side of the park is the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves ( Museum Serralves ) , which opened in 1999 . The conception of the museum and its integration into the park was laid down by the Serralves Foundation in 1989. In 1991, the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira was commissioned to draw up plans for the museum within the park area. Construction began in 1996; the museum opened on June 6, 1999 with the exhibition 'Circa 1968'. In addition to the typical flora of the north of Portugal, such as oak, birch and yew, works of art by various contemporary artists are exhibited in the park.
Artwork in the park
Claes Oldenburg ,
Plantoir
Richard Serra ,
Walking is measuring
Ângelo de Sousa,
To Jardim Catoptrico
Veit Stratmann,
Pour le Parc
Ana Vieira,
Aquario
Luc Tuymans ,
The Fence
Veit Stratmann,
Elements pour postage
Pedro Barateiro,
Tratado de encenação
Dan Graham ,
Double Exposure
Francisco Tropa,
Monte Falso
Fernanda Gomes,
Sem Título
Alberto Carneiro,
Ser Arvore e Arte
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Web links
- Presentation of the park on the Serralves Foundation website (English and Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ^ Park: History. Serralves Foundation website (accessed April 16, 2016 in English and Portuguese).
- ↑ cf. the garden plan (PDF) on the foundation's website (Portuguese and English, accessed April 24, 2016).
- ↑ on the botanical information cf. the detailed inventory of the park on the Foundation's website (Portuguese, accessed April 24, 2016).
Coordinates: 41 ° 9 ′ 30.6 " N , 8 ° 39 ′ 27.7" W.