Hospital da Divina Providência / Câmara Municipal de Vila Real - Portuguese Inventory of Architectural Patrimony on Waymarking.com

PT: "Arquitectura de saúde, neoclássica. Antigo hospital de Misericórdia, de planta sensivelmente quadrangular com pátio central aberto, à volta do qual se desenvolvem as várias dependências. Fachadas de dois pisos, rasgadas por vãos de arco abatido moldurados e encimados por cornija do mesmo perfil, com pilastras nos cunhais coroados por fogaréus e terminadas em friso e cornija. A antiga fachada principal é de três panos, com o central mais avançado e terminado em frontão triangular, rasgado por vãos de verga recta, e os panos laterais com janelas de varandim encimados por janelas de sacada corrida. A actual fachada principal possui cornija alteada na zona central, de perfil contracurvado, de inspiração borromínica, encimada por figura alegórica à cidade, e escadaria frontal avançada de acesso ao andar nobre."

EN: "Saúde architecture, neoclassical. Former Misericórdia hospital, with a roughly quadrangular floor plan with an open central patio, around which several dependencies develop. Facades of two floors, torn by vaulted arches molded and surmounted by cornice of the same profile, with cunhais pilasters crowned by fogaréus and finished in frieze and cornice. The old main façade is made of three panels, with a more advanced central façade and finished in a triangular front, torn by straight-rod vaos, and the lateral panels with valances of varandim surmounted by vario-striped valances. The current main facade has a raised cornice in the central area, with a counter-curved profile, of Borromean inspiration, surmounted by an allegorical figure of the city, and an advanced frontal staircase for access to the walk above."


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