Serralves / Porto

Serralves is located in a very good area of Porto where you can spend a whole day just walking in the amazing park. You can also visit the museum and the House of Serralves (Casa de Serralves).


[b]Museum[/b]
The Museu Serralves is located in the Quinta de Serralves. It is the first large-scale contemporary art museum in Portugal. A large property close to the center of Porto that includes a main house built in the 1930s for the Count of Vizela. The public access to the museum's ground is made at the highest level of the terrain through an opening in the existing wall that surrounds the property.

[b]Park[/b]
The landscaped gardens designed by João Gomes da Silva, on the approximately 18 hectars of land, preserved the most important species already existing on the site. The new Serralves Park opened to the public in 1987, and was subject to a recovery and enhancement project initiated in 2001 and concluded in 2006. On display in the parc are currently sculptures by Claes Oldenburg, Dan Graham, Fernanda Gomes, Richard Serra, and Veit Stratmann.

[b]Casa de Serralves[/b]
The building of the Serralves Foundation is a project designed by the Portuguese architect José Marques da Silva. The House of Serralves is considered to be one of this architect's greatest achievements. It is an elegant Art Déco building with magnificent gardens surrounding it, one of which was designed by French architect Jacques Gréber.

Source: Wikipedia
Website: www.serralves.pt/select_lang.php?id=en