CASA ABRUNHOSA

Private house, Covas do Douro

TRAIN STATION CLOCK

 

Pinhão Train Station.

All of Portugal's train stations were, at a time, designed in the same style with the same materials, and few regional variations. Tiles were used profusely which depicted local scenes, monuments, landscapes. A Portuguese train station was easily identified as a building type.

We don't know if this wonderful clock was as ubiquitous as the painted tiles on the walls, but its design has both a modern dial and a beaux-arts body. This softness of style, both traditional and functionalist, is not unlike the mix which makes most old Portuguese stuff.

WATER SPOUT

Water spout, public fountain at Covas do Douro, Pinhão