Terreiro do Paço Metro Station
Terreiro do Paço is a metro station on the Linha Azul (blue line) of the Lisbon Metro , the subway network of the Portuguese capital . The train station is located below Avenida Infante D. Henrique in the municipality of Santa Maria Maior in the immediate vicinity of Praça do Comércio , which is popularly known as Terreiro do Paço ("Palace Square"). The neighboring stations of the train station are Santa Apolónia and Baixa-Chiado . The station went into operation on December 19, 2007. Above the subway station is the important ferry terminal of the same name , which is officially known as Estação Ferroviária do Sul e Sueste ("South and Southeast Station ").
history
Since the U-shaped underground line between the Jardim Zoológico and Alvalade underground stations was split into two separate lines ( Linha Azul and Linha Verde ), the operating company Metropolitano de Lisboa has been planning - true to the Plano de Expansão da Rede 1999 (plan for expansion of the network until 1999) - to extend one line each to one of the two large railway stations on the banks of the Tejo. Since 1998 the Linha Verde has been going to the Cais do Sodré station , and since then the Linha Azul has also been going to the Santa Apolónia station. Construction work began in 1997, but a major flood in June 2000 near what is now the Terreiro do Paço underground station and stricter security regulations prevented it from being completed on time. This is why the operating company of the Lisbon Metro, the Metropolitano de Lisboa , was only able to start traffic on December 19, 2007 ten years after construction began. Overall, the building between Baixa-Chiado and Santa Apolónia cost 299 million euros, 31 million euros more than planned.
The architect Artur Rosa was responsible for the Terreiro do Paço station itself; he designed two side platforms typical of the Lisbon Metro. Because of the underground, the station is particularly low, so that several escalators lead to the surface. João Vieira was responsible for the design, but he held back and only designed a large tile work with colorful azulejos entitled Transparência II , which is located in the main hall of the train station. Otherwise, concrete and metal panels dominate, giving the station a cool coat of paint. In 2007, the architectural achievement received the prestigious Artchtiekturpreis Prémio Valmor de Arquitetura .
After the station opened, one of the metro's two customer centers also moved from the Alameda metro station to the Terreiro do Paço station . As soon as the renovation of the ferry terminal is completed, there will be direct access from the train station to the ships.
Nine months after the station opened, the operating company found that instead of the planned 25,000 passengers per day, only about 12,000 passengers use the station per day. The Metropolitano de Lisboa, EP attributes this to the restricted ferry service of the Transtejo between Caxias and Lisbon and the passengers' fear of water ingress - as happened during the construction work.
course
At the underground station you can change to the bus and tram lines of the Carris as well as to the ferries of the Transtejo .
| 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 September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Metro: Rede ganha mais duas estações, no Terreiro do Paço e Santa Apolónia ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2016 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. , [Metro: network gains two additional stations at Terreiro do Paço and in Santa Apolónia], RTP .pt, December 19, 2007
- ↑ Construção do Metro no Terreiro do Paço teve derrapagem superior a 31 ME ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , [Construction of the metro at Terreiro do Paço cost 31 million more], tsf.pt, June 11, 2008
- ↑ Architectural description of the train station of the Metropolitano de Lisboa, EP ( Memento of the original from June 24, 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.
- ↑ Information from the Metropolitano de Lisboa, EP on the conversion of the Terreiro do Paço transfer point ( 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.
- ↑ Metro do terreiro do Paço com metade dos passageiros previstos , [Metro at Terreiro do Paço with half of the scheduled passengers], Rádio Clube Portguês, September 8th 2009
Web links
- Area map of the train station (PDF file 243 KiB)
Coordinates: 38 ° 42 '25.7 " N , 9 ° 7' 59.9" W.