Lavadouro Arca de Água, Porto, Portugal
N 41° 10.322 W 008° 36.784
29T E 532456 N 4557926
A public lavoir in the city of Oporto, Portugal, located in the pleasant garden of Arca d'Agua. The complex was inaugurated in 1920.
Waymark Code: WM3PBV
Location: Portugal
Date Posted: 04/29/2008
Views: 60
The garden of Arca d'água its one of the most pleasant places of the city of Oporto, because of the beauty and antiquity of his trees, and the peace and tranquility that you´ll feel when you sit down in one bench and look to a swam.
In spite of the tranquility, the garden hides episodes something more agitated, like for example the fights during the liberal struggles and a fencing fighting between two famous Portuguese writers.
The beauty of the garden is not only exterior. In his heart hides a beautiful garden of water that once upon a time was of very important in the supply of water of the population (spring of Paranhos). The visit is advised through the realization of an underground course that here begins and that spreads out even to the centre of the city for the ancient conducts of water.
The lavoir is now rarely used. It was two distint areas, one for washing and another for the clotheslines.
Visit Instructions:
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