Viana do Castelo is a municipality and seat of the district of Viana do Castelo in the Norte Region of Portugal. The urbanized area of the municipality, comprising the city, has a population of approximately 36,148 inhabitants. It is located on the Portuguese Way path, an alternative path of the Camino de Santiago, and at the moith of the Lima river.
(Pictures taken in 2007)
Porta Mexia Galvão
Santa Casa da Misericórdia
Manuel Gonçalves Rocha
Manuel Gonçalves Rocha
Manuel Gonçalves Rocha
Modern archtiecture:
In 2007 the Axis Viana Hotel was still under construction. The building is an ode to cantilevering. The overlapping stacked volumes generate a series of different perspectives, ranging from a full box in a frontal view, to a complex column when seen from the sides. The 2 lower levels have a concrete structure, with the rest of the boxes resolved in a steel structure sitting on top of it.
Architecture: VHM: Jorge Sodré Albuquerque, Ana Luísa Almeida, José Magno.
The VianaPolis residential block is made up of two buildings located on the riverfront with a courtyard between the two blocks. Integrated in the comprehensive plan to revitalise certain parts of the city, these two blocks include apartments on the top floor while the ground floor is used for shops.
These buildings are the work of the architect Paula Santos.
Paula Santos
Paula Santos
Paula Santos
Paula Santos
Portugal special 
Een gedachte over “Viana do Castelo”