Old firehouse - "Bombeiros Lisbonenses" - Lisboa, Portugal
Posted by: tmob
N 38° 43.550 W 009° 08.879
29S E 487136 N 4286363
This building was the firehouse of "Bombeiros Lisbonenses", from 1914 till 1925. Nowadays it's a restaurant.
Waymark Code: WMB50C
Location: Lisboa, Portugal
Date Posted: 04/06/2011
Views: 14
The corporation 'Bombeiros Voluntários Lisbonenses' was estabilished more than 100 years ago, in December 12th, 1910. Eduardo Augusto Macieira was the first commander.
Before it opened in 1925, the current Firehouse of "Bombeiros Lisbonenses", in Rua Camilo Castelo Branco, and after they leave Nº 95 of Rua das Flores, where they stood since its foundation in 1910, "has leased a large facility on Avenida Duque de Loulé nº111 and nº113, by the annual sum of 396$00 and more 84$00 by improvements, everything was prepared for the inauguration of new headquarters, which was done magnificently and with the assistance of categorized officials on January 4, 1914. " , As reported in the book of the centennial of AHBVL.
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