Rossio Train Station

"There is a lot to see and discover at Rossio Station, built to be the Central Station, ensuring connection to the main lines of the Portuguese railways and, later, also international connections through the SudExpress. Officially opened on June 11, 1890, the Lisbon-Rossio Station was then called Avenida Station or Central Station. The design of the passenger building and the roof of the boarding platforms in an iron and glass structure was commissioned from the architect José Luís Monteiro, who was forced to adopt the neo-Manueline style, a revival of a genuinely national style. Monteiro's mastery is revealed in the way he designs the station's insertion into the urban environment, resolving, through the building, the large gap between the platform floor and the current Largo do Regedor. Also noteworthy is the tunnel that, 2,613 meters long, connects Rossio to Campolide Station, Largo Duque de Cadaval and the set of ramps that overcome the difference in level between this square and the floor of the railway lines. The uniqueness of the complex also lies in the design of the facades. Elements of the Manueline vocabulary are combined – flowers, pinnacles, lacy platbands crowning the facades, armillary spheres and statuary (El Rei D. Sebastião) – with railway symbolism – the clock, the medallions with the effigies of Stephenson, from Fontes Pereira de Melo and King D. Luís, in an eclectic composition of stone, iron and glass. On the middle floor of the building is the King's Room, an ex-libris of Portuguese railway heritage, and on the upper floor, on one side, the ceramic paintings by Lucien Donnat and Rogério Amaral stand out on Portuguese products such as sardines, cork , wine and earthenware, offered by the Export Promotion Fund, in 1958 and, on the other side, the tile panels by Lima de Freitas on myths and legends of the city of Lisbon (1995)."

"Useful for day trips out of the city"