Arroios Metro Station
Arroios is a metro station on the Linha Verde of the Lisbon Metro , the subway network of the Portuguese capital. The station is located at the intersection of Avenida Almirante Reis / Rua José Falcão south of Praça do Chile in the municipality of Arroios . The neighboring stations of the train station are Anjos and Alameda . The station went into operation on June 18, 1972.
history
On June 18, 1972, the Anjos - Alvalade subway section was opened and with it the Arroios station . This section represented the end point of the first construction phase of the Lisbon metro. Within a good fifteen years, the city had connected all important central areas and stations by means of the new metro, the last of which was the Alvalade district , where it was located after the Second World War had developed a new business center.
The Portuguese architect Dinis Gomes was responsible for the construction of the Arroios station , as well as for all other stations in the section . He had a standard scheme for the subway stations so that they all look very similar in their basic form. The station has two 70 meter long side platforms and a relatively flat, rounded platform ceiling as well as exits to the south to Rua Pascoal de Melo and to the north to Praça do Chile . Here, too, the Portuguese Maria Keil was responsible for the design , who also used the tried and tested design element of tiles (azulejos). She designed tiles with yellow-white and yellow-blue stripes that can be seen on the mezzanine floors. The platform walls carry the usual, small, blue mosaic stones.
Since then, not much has changed at the station itself, so that it is now in need of renovation. The Metropolitano de Lisboa, EPE is currently gradually refurbishing all Linha Verde stations and extending the platforms from 70 to 105 meters to increase the capacity of the Linha Verde . The Arroios station is to be renovated soon , after the Alvalade , Roma and Areeiro stations, among others, have already been renovated. Then a retrofitting of an elevator is to be expected, which the station does not have until today.
course
At the underground station you can change to the Carris bus lines .
| line | course |
|---|---|
| Telheiras - Campo Grande - Alvalade - Roma - Areeiro - Alameda - Arroios - Anjos - Intendente - Martim Moniz - Rossio - Baixa-Chiado - Cais do Sodré |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief information about the station of the Metropolitano de Lisboa, EPE ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Architectural description of the train station of the Metropolitano de Lisboa, EPE ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Description of the planned and already completed renovation on the Linha Verde, Metropolitano de Lisboa, EPE ( Memento of the original of July 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- JS Brazão Farinha: Caderno n ° 5 - Obras de Construção do Metropolitano de Lisboa 1955-1993 , [Issue No. 5 - Construction of the Lisbon subway between 1955 and 1993], Metropolitano de Lisboa, February 1997, no ISBN
Web links
- Area map of the train station (PDF file, 325 KiB)
Coordinates: 38 ° 44 ′ 0.5 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 4 ″ W.