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O Museu de Serralves, Porto   Aguda beach N.Portugal Porto Street  Monastery of St.Jeronimus Aguda railway Aguda Beach Aguda Beach Sao Bento train station, Porto  The Lisbon train at Aguda 

   JARDIM DO PALÁCIO DE CRISTAL - PORTO Four days will quickly steep themselves in night; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night Of our solemnities.                                                                                           

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To visit the Porto Metro is to participate in a metaphysical experience. In Sao Bento particularly the emptiness, scale and grandeur of the space creates an environment in which the traveller is both essential and incidental. There are fleeting moments of great beauty, of which the participants are unaware. The human forms are design elements. The lighting and the deep spaces create silhouetted human forms which enhance the abstract qualities. To stand back and observe the coming and going of travellers is to see both randomness and purpose simultaneously. The station acts as a stage, a vessel, a conduit and microcosmic environment through which matter passes. The steel silver and pale blues resonate and are reflected in the polished floors, and in an echo of the airport in Porto, there is a sense of deep water. Porto Spring 11 , a set on Flickr. Eduard Souto de Moura: genius

Convento de Christo Tomar Place of worship, refuge, home and stronghold of the Knights Templar: "Templarios" The Convent of the Order of Christ (Portuguese: Convento de Cristo)  is a religious building and Roman Catholic building in Tomar, Portugal, originally a Templar stronghold built in the 12th century.  After the Order of the Knights Templar was dissolved in the 14th century,  the Portuguese branch of the order was turned into the Knights of the Order of Christ,  which supported Portugal's maritime discoveries of the 15th century    The altar rails are about 5' high so that the Knights could  ride into the  Church  on horseback, take communion, and then ride off to secure the border of the young Christian Kingdom against the Moors The Templar order was suppressed throughout most of Europe from 1312–1314, but in Portugal its members assets, and partly its membership, were trans...