Colégio Militar / Luz underground station
Colégio Militar / Luz is a subway station of the Linha Azul of the Lisbon Metro , the subway network of the Portuguese capital . The station is at the intersection of Avenida do Colégio Militar and Avenida Lusíada in the Lisbon municipality of São Domingos de Benfica . The neighboring stations are Carnide and Alto dos Moinhos ; the station went into operation on October 14, 1988.
history
The Colégio Militar / Luz underground station forms the end of the section from Sete Rios station, which opened in 1988 . The primary goal of this expansion was to better develop the populous district of Benfica and to give it an alternative to the peripheral Linha de Sintra .
The station was designed by the architect António J. Mendes , who was also responsible for the Laranjeiras station . Here, too, he designed two sober 105-meter-long side platforms with a low platform ceiling, and the exits are also unusually in the middle of the platform. The operating company of the metro, which wants to emphasize the artistic value of its stations, invited Manuel Cargaleiro as an artist to design the station. Cargaleiro is particularly known in Portugal for the field of azulejo art and followed with the design of the Maria Keil train station, which designed a large part of the Lisbon metro stations. Cargaleiro chose the theme of the “blue corridors” for the train station. The color blue plays a very strong role in the collective memory of the Portuguese and is strongly linked to public buildings via the azulejos. Hospitals, schools, courts, train stations and other public buildings are often very old and decorated with azulejos. Cargaleiro tried to recreate this familiar atmosphere with its small, square tiles in blue color. Two large tile paintings on the mezzanine, which are supposed to represent “blue landscapes”, complete Cargaleiro's idea.
In 1997, the station got its illustrious neighborhood through the construction of the huge shopping center Centro Colombo , at that time the largest in Portugal and also on the Iberian Peninsula. Apart from the huge rush of shoppers due to the additional new access to the shopping center, there have been no major changes since the station opened. The station is also a regular target of the onslaught through the Estádio da Luz football stadium, which opened in 2003 and is just a few meters away .
There is a sweeping system behind the station, so that during the day every second train instead of going to Amadora Este ends at the Colégio Militar / Luz station. To the south of the train station is a small bus station that serves the buses of the bus companies Carris and Rodoviária de Lisboa .
course
At the underground station you can change to the Carris and Rodoviária de Lisboa bus lines .
| line | course |
|---|---|
| Reboleira - Amadora Este - Alfornelos - Pontinha - Carnide - Colégio Militar / Luz - Alto dos Moinhos - Laranjeiras - Jardim Zoológico - Praça de Espanha - São Sebastião - Parque - Marques de Pombal - Avenida - Restauradores - Baixa-Chiado - Terreiro do Paço - Santa Apolonia |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief station information from the Metropolitano de Lisboa, EPE ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 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.
- ↑ Architectural description of the station of the Metropolitano de Lisboa, EPE ( Memento of the original of September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Area map of the train station (PDF file, 294 KiB)
Coordinates: 38 ° 45 ′ 9.9 ″ N , 9 ° 11 ′ 21.5 ″ W.