Pombaline Downtown

Pombaline Downtown

Year

1758

Landscape architect

Type

landscape

What the 1755 earthquake destroyed in six minutes (the old Lisbon of narrow medieval lanes, Gothic churches, and Moorish-derived urban fabric) Pombal's engineers replaced in fifteen years with a grid of ruthless rationality. Eugénio dos San …

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