Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: Grandes Armazéns Nascimento

With around 250,000 inhabitants, Porto is the largest city in the north of Portugal. More than 1.7 million people live in the "Greater Porto area", the metropolitan region. The historic centre of Porto was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. Port wine is named after Porto because the wineries of Vila Nova de Gaia on the south bank of the Douro River are the centres for packaging, transporting and exporting the fortified wine. I have uploaded many photos from previous visits. So I will limit myself and only upload a few. Grandes Armazéns Nascimento was a furniture/interior decoration store owned by the largest furniture company in the Iberian Peninsula. Inspired by the stunning department stores in Paris, Marques da Silva designed the building as a way to frame the product. Later on, the company’s factory was destroyed in a fire (1934) and the owners were forced to sell it. Between 1940 and 1974, a luxurious coffee shop called Palladium was operating there. The owners made many changes to the original building, such as setting up a clock in the façade. Today the building houses a FNAC and a C&A store.