São Sebastião Metro Station
São Sebatião is a subway station of the Linha Azul and Linha Vermelha of the Lisbon Metro , the subway network of the Portuguese capital . The station is located under the Avenida António Augusto de Aquiar near the Largo de São Sebastião da Pedreira in the municipality of the same name, Avenidas Novas . The neighboring stations of the train station are Praça de Espanha and Parque or Saldanha . The Linha Azul station went into operation on December 29, 1959 as one of the eleven stations of the Lisbon origin network, the Linha Vermelha station on August 29, 2009.
history
Together with ten other train stations, the Lisbon City Council opened the Lisbon subway network on December 29, 1959 between the Restauradores , Sete Rios and Entre Campos train stations . The train station, which like all Lisbon subway stations has two side platforms, was given the usual architectural design like all other subway stations. Francisco Keil do Amaral, as the architect, designed the station itself, the artist Maria Keil designed it with a yellow azulejo pattern, which is supposed to represent wind turbines symbolizing dynamics through connected arches on the individual tiles. For the platform walls, Keil used small stripes in the colors ocher, green and white.
Due to the growing passenger flows from 1966, the operating company decided from 1972 to extend all platforms, the length of which varied between 40 and 70 meters, depending on the importance and opening date, to 105 meters so that six-car trains can stop there. In this context, the platforms of São Sebastião station were extended in 1975 by 65 meters to the south. In 1977 the station received an additional exit in the south, which the engineer Dinis Gomes designed and Maria Keil designed.
Since 2001 the station has had direct access to the neighboring El Corte Inglés , the only department store of this Spanish chain in southern Portugal.
In 2006, the first construction work began on the extension of the Linha Vermelha from Alameda via Saldanha to São Sebastião , which was put into operation in 2009. This enabled direct journeys to the future de facto central station Oriente and Parque das Nações . There has been a direct connection to the airport since July 2012 . The new station, also equipped with two side platforms, is L-shaped to the Linha Azul platforms and has five new entrances. In connection with the extension of the Linha Vermelha , the subway station also received elevators. In the future, 14.4 million passengers will use the São Sebastião station.
course
At the underground station you can change to the Carris 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 | |
| Aeroporto - Encarnação - Moscavide - Oriente - Cabo Ruivo - Olivais - Chelas - Bela Vista - Olaias - Alameda - Saldanha - São Sebastião |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Information about the underground station. Metropolitano de Lisboa, EPE, accessed March 31, 2013 .
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, 671 KiB)
Coordinates: 38 ° 44 ′ 5 " N , 9 ° 9 ′ 14" W.