[PT]
"A construção do novo edifício dos Paços do Concelho, iniciada em 1906, segundo projecto de Adães Bermudes, foi concluída em 1908. O edifício apresenta fachadas austeras, com janelas neo-manuelinas sobriamente decoradas. No alçado principal destaca-se, pela sua imponência, uma torre superiormente rematada por ameias, e por uma cobertura piramidal revestida com azulejos, os quais representam alternadamente a Cruz de Cristo e o Escudo Pátrio. No topo, surge, magestosa, a esfera armilar. ladeiam esta curiosa cobertura quatro outras de menores dimensões, coroando «guaritas» que lhe formam os cantos. Nesse mesmo alçado, sobressai um balcão, pleno de arcos de feição manuelina, e encimado por um frontão em que se inscrevem as armas municipais.
No interior abre-se um magnífico claustro, cujos varandins do piso superior apresentam rica ornamentação neo-manuelina e renascentista."
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[EN]
"An accessible location was chosen for the construction of the new Municipal Offices both in respect of the Old Quarter and the borough of Estefânia and is why the current Municipal Offices were built between both districts in the location which had, up until the date in question, been the former hermitage of São Sebastião.
The construction of the new Municipal Offices, which began in 1906, in accordance with the drawings of Adães Bermudes, was completed in 1908. The building has austere facades, with subdued neo-Manueline windows. The facade contains an imposing battlement topped tower and a pyramidal tile covering which alternately represent the Cross of Christ and the Portuguese Shield. The top displays the majestic armillary sphere with fours others of smaller size on the sides with sentry-boxes forming the corners of the tower. The same facade contains a veranda, full of Manueline type arches and surmounted by a pediment displaying the municipal arms.
The interior opens up into a magnificent cloister whose narrow upper balconies are richly adorned in the neo-Manueline and renaissance styles."
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