São Bento railway station

Porto, 4000-069
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The São Bento Railway Station is a 19th-century railway station in the civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the municipality of Porto, district of Porto.HistoryEven by 1864, the Guia Histórico do Viajante do Porto e Arredores there was information suggesting that the construction of central station, to located in the Palacette of the Quinta do Cirne .In 1887, José Maria Ferreira and António Júlio Machado, alderman, presented to the municipal council a project for a Central Station in Porto, elaborated Hippolyte de Bare. The following year, Emídio Navarro, Minister of Public Works, authorized the construction a line of railway between Campanhã and a central station, which would be established in the proximity of Praça de D. Pedro.The final decision would be to erect the station on the site of the Benedictine Convent of São Bento da Avé Maria, which had been ordered built by King D. Manuel I of Portugal in 1518. But, the monastery fell victim of a fire in 1783, was later rebuilt, but was in a grave state of disrepair at the end of the 19th century.The project was entrusted to Porto architect José Marques da Silva, who designed a building under the influence of French Beaux-Arts architecture.

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