Restauradores Metro Station
Restauradores is a metro station on the Linha Azul of the Lisbon Metro , the subway network of the Portuguese capital . The station is located under the square of the same name in the municipality of Santa Maria Maior . The neighboring stations of the train station are Avenida and Baixa-Chiado . The station went into operation on December 29, 1959 as one of the eleven stations of the Lisbon origin network. The train station is an important transport hub in the Portuguese capital; from the train station there is direct access to the former main train station and still important regional train station Rossio .
history
The Lisbon city administration officially opened the Restauradores station on December 29, 1959 in connection with the complete commissioning of the Lisbon subway network between Restauradores , Sete Rios and Entre Campos . First, the trains coming from the two branches of the line ended at the station. Like almost all Lisbon subway stations, the station received two 4.20 meters wide and 40 meters long side platforms, designed by João Falcão e Cunha . Maria Keil took care of the artistic design . She decided on light and dark blue and purple-colored, square tiles, supplemented by individual flower images.
However, the station did not remain the terminus for long. In 1963 the operating company extended operations to the nearest station, Rossio, and in 1966 and 1972 to Alvalade . The result was a kind of elongated U with two line branches on one side, with the Restauradores underground station at the southern end of the "U".
Due to the growing passenger flows from 1966, the operating company Metropolitano de Lisboa decided from 1972 to extend all platforms, the length of which varied between 40 and 70 meters depending on the importance and the opening date, to 105 meters so that six-car trains can stop there. This happened at the Restauradores underground station in 1975. On February 11, 1977, the station received an additional exit in the north to Avenida da Liberdade . This was designed by the engineer Benoliel de Carvalho , Maria Keil was also responsible for the design of this new building.
500 years after the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494, the artist Luíz Ventura designed an elaborate tile work of art for the southern entrance hall of the train station with the title Brasil – Portugal: 500 anos - A Chegança (in German "Brazil – Portugal: 500 years - the arrival") , which addresses the relationship between Portugal and the former colony of Brazil . David de Almeida made the counterpart to this work of art in the Conceição subway station on the São Paulo metro . In his work of art, Ventura highlighted the great difference between Portuguese and Brazilian culture and designed twelve human characteristics and things (including the good, the bad, greed, science, culture, religion and the ghost).
The number of passengers increased significantly over the years due to numerous extensions, so that the existing underground network with two branches did not appear to be useful. From this network - according to the adopted Plano de Expansão da Rede 1999 (plan to expand the network by 1999) - three lines should emerge in the future. The two branches in the direction of Sete Rios and Entre Campos were already formed in 1995, and a yellow line ( Rotunda - Campo Grande ) and a blue line ( Pontinha - Campo Grande ) were created. In April 1998 the Metropolitano de Lisboa extended the Campo Grande - Rossio branch via the new Baixa-Chiado underground station to the large transfer point on the Tejo Cais do Sodré - the green line was created. During this time the trains from the direction of Pontinha ended at the Restauradores station , which unexpectedly had its function as a terminus for a short time. The trains have been running since August 1998, now the trains on the blue line ended at the inner-city Baixa-Chiado station . This resulted in three independent metro lines (yellow, blue and green lines).
In addition to the network redesign, renovation work at the southern entrance of the station was also planned under the direction of the architect Manuel Ponte . The operating company used this opportunity and commissioned the artists Nadir Afonso (painter) and Lagoa Henriques (sculptor) with the design of the southern vestibule and the train station, the originally existing tiles by Maria Keil disappeared completely. Since then, six large color paintings with the titles Madrid , Paris , Londres ( London ), Nova Iorque ( New York ), Rio de Janeiro and Moscovo ( Moscow ) have adorned the station, which, according to Afonso, are intended to pay homage to Lisbon by these world cities. Henriques designed two works for the station; on the one hand a feminine stone statue and an engraved panel, which is supposed to commemorate the great poets of Portugal (called António Botto , Mário de Sá-Carneiro , Fernando Pessoa , Almada Negreiros , Cesário Verde and Luís de Camões ). As part of the renovation work, the station was also one of the few in the Lisbon subway network to have an elevator.
course
At the underground station you can change to the Carris bus lines and the suburban train lines of the CP Urbanos de Lisboa ( Lisbon Rossio station ).
| 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 information about the station of the Metropolitano de Lisboa, EP ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2008 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.
- ↑ a b c d Architectural description of the train station of the Metropolitano de Lisboa, EP ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2008 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.
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, 452 KiB)
- Picture of the underground station before 1959
Coordinates: 38 ° 42 ′ 54.2 " N , 9 ° 8 ′ 29.8" W.