ArchiTourAlgarve - Architecture Walking Tour - Fuseta Preview

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Train Station Fuseta-Moncarapacho

Train station Fuseta-Moncarapach(1904), one of the two train stations that Fuseta owns. The train station is part of a railway emplacement consisting of a train station, a covered loading dock / warehouse and three staff houses with an outside oven.Photo 4 map of the ensemble with explanation:01 - Uncovered Mercadorias Cais02 - Covered loading dock / warehouse 03 - Station garden04 - Boarding platform05 - Station06 - Sanitary Installations07 - Oven08 - Houses

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Tide mill 'Moinhos das Marés'

This area is known as the mill site and this mill was acquired by the grandfather of Margarida Gomes in 1920.When her grandfather bought it, the mill was no longer working. It served as housing for workers at the salt mines and the salt factory. Until around the mid-1990s, several families lived here, but the space ended up being abandoned.It was in a very dilapidated state, there were parts of the roof that gave way. The roof fell down and the balcony was in ruins. The interior was very tampered with, because it was adapted to serve as a home, we had to remove all these intrusive elements.The salt factory was named after the owner, José Guerreiro, just like the mill. From the salt flats, a society was created called Neto e Guerreiro. It still exists today and has embraced the rehabilitation project.The recovering the mill started in 2006. Between the awarding of the first architectural studies and the opening ten years passed, with the bureaucratic aspect being the major time consuming factor.Margarida Gomes: «There was a lot of fear on the part of the authorities that we would not create a construction faithful to the original. But we committed to the Ria Formosa Natural Park that we would only build with traditional techniques and that we would not increase the space. This mill is not an inch bigger than it always was. All exterior walls were made of stone, laid by hand. It's a job that few people know how to do anymore. There was a great effort on the part of the family to bear the cost of the work», estimated at 400 thousand euros (work and equipment).In addition to the five rooms, for local accommodation, the main room of the mill was planned to be open all year round, as a tapas bar, with regional products. The tapas bar has existed for some time but now the whole complex is holliday accommodationRemains of old millstones, found on the property, were incorporated into the walls. The turning of the mill with the ebb tide, and the windows almost at the level of the Ria, create an idyllic environment. Photos:@Moinhos das Marés

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Vila Helena Maria

Single-family housing with a composition that is characteristic of the architecture of the 1930/40s in the urban context of the Algarve and dedicated to upper-middle level housing.The house has a composition based on the right position of elementary volumes, with large wall panels full of decoration; the crowning by a 'platibanda' interrupted by ceramic elements; flat roofs ( terraces), sometimes equipped with observation structures (viewpoints); and the construction details of solid design and careful execution evident in the use of ceramic covering or filling elements.The architecture combines motifs of erudite and reference to the "Art Deco" (here evident in the crowning of walls and 'plaitbanda'), with characteristics currently associated with the Algarve's regional identity.A Platibanda normally decorates and “hides” the terraces but also the roofs.

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Cinema Topázio

Former cinema with a characteristic layout that gives a wide diffusion and vulgarization of the architectural lexicon of the Modern Movement, in its mature period, in peripheral local promotions.Photo 7 map of the Cinema with explanation:05 - Foyer06 - Bar07 - Checkroom08 - Classroom / rehearsal / study room 09 - Plateila10 - Box (improvised)11 - Coxiae12 - Old project document13 - Frisas14 - Patio15 - Multipurpose room16 - Sanitary installations

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Warehouse/Armazem

Surprising facade with a combination of natural stone, thin bricks (tiles) and framing stucco of this old "Warehouse/Armazem" next to the stairs to the church. Construction with barrel vault (abóbada) which is typical of the architecture of many Fuseta houses.

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Igreja Sra do Carmo

In the year 1758 there was in Fuseta a chapel erected in honor of Our Lady of Carmo, yet the new Igreja Matriz was only erected in 1835.Photo 4: Map with explanation01 - Entrance02 - Graveyard03 - Houses and annexes with land 04 - Catechism rooms05 - Sacristy06 - Moral altar07 - Mortuary house08 - Nartexa - Largo da Igrejab - Rua Gonçalo Velhoc - Rua da Igreja

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Bathhouse

Bathhouse implanted on an urban plot with two fronts on a public road close to the Church and next to the base of the staircase that overcomes the difference between the artery and the long frontier to Igreja Matriz de Fuseta. Balcony Shape and ventilation opening (coboga) that are typical of the 'Modernist Architecture' of the 60s/70s

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Vila do Carmo

Eclecticvilla with details that are sometimes reminiscent of Jugendstil / Art Nouveau. Special symmetrical facade with oval-shaped window openings full of details on both sides and tasteful green tiling.

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Neo-Moorish building

Neo-Moorish building - Rua de Liberdade 33. Building in the style of Moorish Revival/Ecletisism/Romantism with 'keyhole' door shapes on the ground floor. Different times, different colors.

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Marked Hall

Marked Hall - the original construction is from 1867 but it is rebuilt in the 1950s and rehabilitated in 2003 & 2021.

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Fish auction building

Fish auction building (commercial, contemporary architecture 1958 - 1959) owned by Sociedade Concessionária da Doca de Pesca, S.A. The company is now in charge of providing services for the first sale of fish.

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Maritime Authority Building

Fuseta Building/Office of the Maritime Authority of Olhão (1930. Eclectic building with beautiful protruding consoles and a beautiful platibanda. The ending of the terrace on the corner with classic 'vase ornaments'.

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Casa Rua de Liberdade 16

Contemporary multi-family residential and commercial building located in front of a continuous street. Result from the expansion by one floor (in the 1950s) of the existing building, which was then remodeled. Expansion characterized by the adaptation of the modern lexicon to the regional context in current construction, translated into the design of the balcony over the main street and the open "platibanda".

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Fiscal Guard Post / National Republican Guard Post GNR

Fiscal Guard Post (GF) / National Republican Guard Post (GNR) situated on the area of the former Military Battery on this 'higher spot' in Fuseta installed in the 17th century to combat piracy in the coastal region.Photo 3: Map with explanation01 - Restaurant "Paiol" (local of the old military battalion. New construction - 1944).02 - Former military barracks03 - Private house (possible location of the old fort, with large cistern, still existing)04 - Rua Miguel Bombarda05 - Rua Dr. Teófilo Braga06 - Travessa do Paiol07 - Rua do Paiol08 - Largo Dona Benedita de Oliveira09 - Rua do Contra Almirante Marcelino Carlos

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Primary School

The school first consisted of a building with two classrooms in 1946 and was expanded to four classrooms in the 1960s. The architecture is a typical adaptation of local elements (flat roofs with platibandas ) to national regulations for primary schools. The facade is a mix of elements of the 'Estado Novo' style (flagpole and round windows with ironwork) and modernist (horizontal window strips) elements.

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Casa das Pescadores - Social Center for fisherman

Social Center in an architectural composition characteristic of the regionalist Portuguese practice in the decades of 1940 and 1960. A mix of elements of the 'Estado Novo' style, also called 'Portuguese Suave' style with decorations on the tower, the flagpole, the raised element at the entrance door, the double tile line and the round window with ironwork and all this combinated with a modernist 'flat roof". The flat roof, called 'açoteias" is tipical for Fuseta (and Olhão) and is related to North African architecture.The construction of social assistance centers, was over the entire country but 'especially' for the fishing centers under responsibility of the General Directorate of National Buildings and Monuments (DGEMN) in collaboration with to Junta Central das Casas dos Pescadores" (MOP)

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Neighborhood - Houses for Fishermen/Casas para Pescadores

Bairro Casas para Pescadores Houses for fishermen is a single-family residential architectural complex. Economic housing for state public promotion (JCCP). Set of medium-sized fisherman's houses, composed of single-family band houses that together form a neighborhood. The neighbourhood has collective equipment buildings, such as a social and maternal-child assistance center and a primary school.The neighbourhood Casas para Pescadores in Fuseta (and also in Olhão) is designed by architect Inácio Peres Fernandes (1910-1989) for the DGSU in 1945 and built simultaneously with Olhão until 1949.

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Apartments Del Mar Village

Del Mar Village consists of 70 apartments by Architects: Saraiva + Associados; Saraiva + Associates Lot area: 2,520.00 m²Parking Spaces: 80 Indoors + 27 OutdoorsHouses: 70 (24 x 1 bedroom; 46 x 2 bedrooms) Photographs: Fernando Guerra | FG+SG

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Lifeboat Station

The lifeboat station (1951) is a concrete structure with stilts and a ramp, feautures that enable it to launch boats at both low tide (baixamar) and hgh tide (preiamar). It's a great little example of classic modernist utilitarian architecture. It is located in the middle of the Ria Formosa estuary is due to be turned into a small museum. Olhão Council has announced the completion of an architecture study which, it says, will be “essential” to the renovation project.The renovation work will involve improving the structural integrity of the building, carrying out architectural and functional improvements and turning it into a small museum, run by the municipal museum of Olhão.Considering the lifeboat station is located in the middle of the Ria Formosa estuary, visiting the museum would have to involve a boat trip to reach it. The lifeboat station (officially Estação de Socorros a Náufragos da Fuseta) was built during Portugal’s Estado Novo authoritarian regime in the second half of the 20th century. Photo: @bertolucci - AurelioZen (flickr)

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