Places
Egídio Santos
Regular Visits
Tours
Sat 11h00, Architect José Miguel Neto Rodrigues / Sun 11h, Architect Luís Urbano
Caleidoscópio
Maximum 30 people per visit
No reservation required; first-come, first-served
No wheelchair access
Photography allowed
Description
This house was built at Gólgota Street by Gwyn Jenning, for her family. Like other nearby houses on Campo Alegre Street, all of them overlooking the river and its mouth, this was also the initiative of an Englishman connected to Port wine (Sandeman). The house is an example of adaptation of the building system of Porto houses to the comfort and atmosphere of classic English interiors, still visible today in the scale of the spaces, in the carpentries (turned white by Siza Vieira), in the wooden floors worn out by time and in the stoves from the original occupation that still persist. The wall and garden plateau that raps up Quinta da Póvoa [Póvoa Farm], that is the way people call it, constitutes an authentic botanical oasis with rare trees and vegetal species. In the 1980s, Álvaro Siza completes the project (formed by the house, the mews, greenhouses and garden) with the new Carlos Ramos pavilion implantation in a U shape, which confirms and accentuates the original direction of the axis that makes the drawing of that garden.
Location
Via Panorâmica s/n
Directions: Google Maps / Apple Maps
Public Transport
Bus: STCP - 200, 204, 207, 209, 902, 903, 907