Hospital Militar de Valença / Museu do Bombeiro Manuel Valdez Sobral - Valença, Viana do Castelo, Portugal - Field Hospitals on Waymarking.com

PT: "Hospital militar de campanha, fundado na segunda metade do séc. 17 por determinação régia e administrado pela Ordem de São João de Deus, integrado na rede hospitalar e assistencial criada ao longo da raia, durante as Guerras da Aclamação. Foi instalado num primeiro edifício, junto à cadeia, e só no séc. 18 nas imediações da Porta do Sol, sendo o edifício adaptado a Quartel de Bombeiros na primeira metade do séc. 20. Do antigo hospital é possível que conserve apenas a sua volumetria, com fachadas de dois pisos, a que se acrescentou um corpo mais estreito e saliente e se conferiu algumas características da chamada "casa portuguesa", nomeadamente nos remates individualizados dos dois corpos da fachada principal, com espaldar contracurvado e empena, de cornija e beirada, na colocação de beirais sobre as janelas do segundo piso da fachada principal e portal do corpo estreito. A fachada principal tem corpo principal com a zona central alteada, formando falso espaldar contracurvado, albergando o brasão dos Bombeiros. A largura e ritmo dos vãos foi alterado nas obras do séc. 20, bem como a organização espacial interior."

EN: "Military field hospital, founded in the second half of the 20th century. 17 by royal determination and administered by the Order of Saint John of God, integrated into the hospital and care network created along the border, during the Wars of Acclamation. It was installed in a first building, next to the jail, and only in the 19th century. 18 in the vicinity of Porta do Sol, the building being adapted as a Fire Station in the first half of the 19th century. 20. Of the old hospital, it is possible that it only retains its volume, with two-story facades, to which a narrower and more prominent body was added and some characteristics of the so-called "Portuguese house" were given, namely in the individual finishes of the two bodies of the hospital. main facade, with counter-curved back and gable, cornice and eaves, in the placement of eaves over the windows on the second floor of the main facade and the portal of the narrow body. The main facade has a main body with a raised central area, forming a counter-curved false back, housing the Firefighters' coat of arms. The width and rhythm of the spans were changed in the 17th century works. 20, as well as the interior spatial organization."

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Address: Praça da República, 4930-762 Valença, Portugal Name of War: Wars of Acclamation Type of Documentation: Web Page/Historical Documentation

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