Joana Cunha Leal, tour guide, and the EAHN group at the São Pedro de Alcântara belvedere on Tuesday, 22 June.

Photograph: Karin Theunissen

Pombaline Baixa / downtown Lisbon, eighteenth-century facades along a secondary street.

Photograph: Teresa Stoppani

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian headquarters,  foyer of the auditoriums looking towards the gardens, visited by the tour group on Wednesday, 23 June.

Photograph: Teresa Stoppani

Visit to the SIPA architectural archives in the Forte de Sacavém, Wednesday, 23 June.

Photograph: Teresa Stoppani

The EAHN group (lower left) touring the Olivais Norte district in Lisbon on Wednesday, 23 June. Photograph: Ricardo Agarez

The women in the EAHN tour group at São Francisco Church in Évora...

Photograph: Marvin Trachtenberg

…and the men from the group, all on the tour’s optional extension day, Friday, 25 June.

Photograph: Dorothy Ko

EAHN LISBON TOUR 2010

Program and Tour Details

DATES: 21 through 24 June 2010; optional extension to Évora on 25 June

ORGANIZATION:

Tour Leaders: Maria Helena Barreiros and Margarida Tavares da Conceição.

Other specialist guides joined the tour at various venues.

EAHN Tour Liaison:  Carmen Popescu

ITINERARY

Monday, 21 June

Introductory Dinner

Participants arrived in Lisbon on their own.

19:30: Dinner (at own expense) in the town center. Presentation of the tour.

Meeting point: Praça do Rossio (Rossio Square or D. Pedro IV Square), near the statue of king D. Pedro IV.

Tuesday, 22 June

Lisbon, Capital of an Overseas Empire

Guided tour in the city center.

9:00: São Jorge castle, Lisbon’s original settlement, with panoramic views of the city and surroundings.

-Visit to the church and convent of São Vicente de Fora, built under Philip II of Spain (I of Portugal)

-Walk downhill towards the Tagus River, through Lisbon’s pre‐industrial urban fabric.

-Romanesque cathedral.

-Downtown, Pombaline Baixa‐Chiado district and the former royal square on the riverfront, rebuilt after the 1755 earthquake.

-Museum of Fashion and Design (MUDE) (Ricardo Carvalho and Joana Vilhena, 2009)

-Santa Justa Elevator, an example of early 20th-century iron architecture.

-Chiado, 19th c. commercial and residential town center.

-18th c./19th c. opera house, churches, palaces and apartment buildings.

-Apartment block by Álvaro Siza, 1990s.

12:30-14:30: Lunch (at own expense) and meeting with Portuguese architects and scholars at the College of Portuguese Architects (M. Graça Dias and Egas Vieira, early 1990s).

After 14:30:

-Visit to Palácio do Correio‐Velho (possibly by Filippo Juvarra, 1719).

-Bairro Alto, urban layout dating from the 16th c.

-São Roque Jesuit church, contemporary of Il Gesù in Rome.

-Príncipe Real Belvedere and surroundings, 19th c. civil architecture and public gardens.

Evening:

-Dinner (at own expense) in the Príncipe Real square neighborhood.

Wednesday, 23 June

Contemporary Lisbon

9:00: Bloco das Águas Livres, collective housing (N. Teotónio Pereira and B. Costa Cabral, 1953‐55).

-Coração de Jesus church (Nuno Portas, N. Teotónio Pereira and others, 1961‐70).

-Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Headquarters and Museum (A. José Pessoa, Pedro Cid and Ruy Athouguia, with landscaping by Ribeiro Telles, 1959‐1969).

13:00: Lunch (at own expense) at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

14:00: Travel from Lisbon’s center to Sacavém, Olivais and Parque das Nações by bus.

‐ Architectural archives in the Sacavém Fort (Institute for Housing and Urban Renewal).

-Olivais district, urban planning and social housing of the 50s and 60s.

-Parque das Nações, the former site of the International Exhibition of 1998, an overview: contemporary architecture and public space by Álvaro Siza, Carrilho da Graça, M. Graça Dias e Egas J. Vieira, among others.

Evening:

Dinner (at own expense) in the Parque das Nações; return to Lisbon center by subway.

Thursday, 24 June

Towards the West. The Villeggiatura Outskirts: from Belém to Sintra

World Heritage Cultural Landscape

9:00: Travel from Lisbon’s center to Belém by bus, passing under the monumental Aqueduto das Águas Livres, first half of the 18th c.

-Belém. Tour of the site: 16th c. Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Hieronymite Monastery) and Belém Tower.

-18th c. Belém Palace (now the presidential residence).

-Praça do Império (Empire Square), 1940s.

-Cultural Center of Belém (V. Gregotti and Manuel Salgado, 1992).

-Jerónimos Monastery (World Heritage Monument), a landmark example of the Manueline style, closely associated with the Portuguese Voyages of Discovery, it was built as a royal pantheon on the banks of the Tagus.

-Bus trip to Sintra along the coast.

-S. Pedro de Sintra, Cipreste House (Raul Lino, 1914) – the quest for the “Portuguese house.”

13:00: Sintra. Lunch (at own expense) and walk through the old town.

After lunch:

-Town Palace, 16th c.: unique example of a medieval Portuguese royal palace, extensively transformed under Manuel I (reigned 1495‐1521).

-The Pena Palace: romantic summer royal residence built on the hill overlooking Sintra, on the site of a former 16th c. Hieronymite convent, which was partially integrated into the new building (1840s).

-Regaleira Palace (eclectic and esoteric style, late 19th c.).

-Monserrate Palace and Gardens (neo‐Moorish and oriental style, mid‐19th c.).

19:00: Return to Lisbon.

Friday, 25 June (optional extension)

Évora — the Renaissance Court Town

World Heritage Town

Ninety minutes by rented bus, east of Lisbon.

-Roman walls and 16th c. main square.

-14th c. Cathedral

-Museum (recently restored by Hestnes Ferreira) in the Roman forum site, overlooking the plains around the city.

-16th c. Jesuit university.

-16th century aristocratic palaces and religious architecture.

-The small Renaissance monastery of Valverde in the Évora countryside.

-Bairro da Malagueira, Évora’s outskirts, late 1970s social housing (Álvaro Siza).

TOUR ARRANGEMENTS

Costs: €100 (plus an additional €34 for the extension to Évora).

The tour fee did not include transportation to and from Lisbon, hotel accommodations, or meals. Entrance to most sites on the itinerary was free, but a few required a modest fee.

Number of participants: 21

Transportation:

Participants were responsible for their own transportation to and from Lisbon.

All transportation during the tour was included in the tour fee.

Accommodation:

Participants booked their own hotel rooms.  A variety of lodging options were available from low cost hotels and hostels previously contacted by the tour organizers (dorms 16‐22 €; rooms 35‐50 €).  Participants were also free to choose other accommodations suiting their preferences.

Documentation:

Participants received an English bibliography relevant to the sites visited.

Further details:

For more details of the Lisbon tour, please consult the Explorations and Virtual Tour in the EAHN Newsletter No. 3/10.