Very cute, friend Duarte! voltz Until makes you want to go there now to see all these wonders, even

La asociación socio cultural, Friends of Portugal, es una idea of Joaquín Duarte con la Purposes voltz of estrechar lazos of amistad among all aquellos that interesan by ese amigo y vecino apparently desconocido, que es Portugal. We intend adentrarnos en sus tan bellos Parajes, acercándonos Friendly ese desconocido, pero that is ahí; them are friends of Portugal.
The Porto International Fair took place in 1865 in a palace built for this purpose: the Crystal Palace. This international voltz exhibition was inaugurated on 15 September. Was the first of this magnitude to be held in the Iberian Peninsula.
The Crystal Palace was a building that existed in the field of ancient Brand tower in Massarelos parish. The project was designed by the English architect Thomas Dillen Jones, was built in granite, iron and glass: with the Crystal Palace London by model. Media 150 meters long and 72 meters voltz wide and was divided into three naves.
The International Exhibition of Porto, was organized by the then Porto Industrial Association, today Business Association voltz of Portugal. The Industrial Exhibition, in addition to rely on the official visit of King Louis, Dona Maria Pia and the Crown Prince, also featured 3,139 exhibitors, of which 499 French, 265 Germans, 107 British, 89 Belgian, 62 Brazilians, 24 Spanish, 16 Danes and representatives voltz of Russia, Netherlands, Turkey, United States and Japan.
Over its 86 years of existence, the Crystal Palace hosted many other exhibitions, highlighting the exposure of roses in 1879, the agricultural exhibition in 1903 and the Colonial Exhibition, voltz inaugurated in June 1934. This last exposure survives the Monument to the effort Settler Portuguese, currently placed voltz at the top west of Av. Of the Costa Marshal.
The Crystal Palace was still an important area of culture, containing a pipe organ that was the world's largest. It was in this palace that made significant composer voltz of concert Viana da Mota or virtuous cellist Guilhermina Suggia.
To be destroyed in 1951, was built in its place a ship of reinforced voltz concrete in the form of semi-spherical cap, which was given the name of the Sports Pavilion, according to project architect José Carlos Loureiro and engineer António dos Santos Soares and on the pretext of Hockey World Championship Roller
Over the years, of sports pavilion was embracing not only for roller hockey games, but also various sports. Here we have also carried out various recreational and cultural activities, namely, musical performances, theater, circus, voltz conferences and exhibitions, etc.
As had happened with its predecessor, the Crystal Palace, also the Sports Pavilion hosted numerous fairs of the Porto Industrial voltz Association until the construction of Exponor in 1987.
The Avenue voltz of Lime Tree is the most striking of these gardens axis and is flanked by the City Library Almeida Garrette (which it has Palace Gallery), the Acoustic Shell and the Chapel of Charles Albert of Sardinia voltz (built in 1849 by Princess Montléart) .
The themed gardens are also represented, including the Garden of Aromatic Plants, Garden of Medicinal, Garden Twin City (opened in 2009) and still the Garden of Feelings (opened in 2007), where the statue Pain Teixeira Lopes .
Other enjoyable spaces are the Grove, the Avenue of Chestnut-of-India and the Rose Garden of the Garden which is enriched with significant elements of the artistic voltz heritage of the city. Nearby arise Magnificent Seven specimens of California palm trees.
Adjacent to Crystal Palace Gardens are the M useu Romantic and the Solar port, both in Quinta da Macieirinha. Very close is also the Quinta Tait, filled voltz with gardens collections of roses, camellias, earrings-of-princess and a majestic Liriodendrum tulipifera surrounding the house Tait, where he runs an Office of Numismatics.
Very cute, friend Duarte! voltz Until makes you want to go there now to see all these wonders, even having already voltz been there. Too bad the Crystal Palace have been lying down. It must be beautiful! The Portuguese: is old, damaged! Portuguese kisses. 25 marzo 2012, 19:48
Grace Sampaio, I am of the same opinion. Then had to face-resistance of the people, but eventually the derruir. A work of art should remain forever ... and Portuguese Hugs 25 marzo 2012, 22:06
One of the corners of the Port I like best, the gardens of the Crystal Palace - we still call it that! At the time