Parks and Gardens

Quinta de Villar d’Allen

Quinta de Villar d’Allen

Property of public interest, Villar d’Allen is a survivor of the small farms that in the  18th  and 19th Century encircled the city of Oporto. Acquired by John Allen, English businessman in 1839, it has a building of eclectic architecture, typical of romanticism century.   Villar d’Allen keeps the garden ‘à la française’ created by […]

Oporto City Park

Oporto City Park

The biggets urban park in the country with 83 hectares of green areas that go as far as the Atlantic Ocean. The presence of stone is due to old buldings demolitions that gives it a special characteristic, a rural and countryside looks. In 2000 was selected by the Order of Engineers as one of the […]

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