Monumento ao Calceteiro - Fanhões, Portugal
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This monument is a tribute to the "Calceteiros", the Portuguese pavement workers, from the parish of Fanhões.
Waymark Code: WMB5B7
Location: Lisboa, Portugal
Date Posted: 04/07/2011
Views: 5
"Calçada Portuguesa"
«Portuguese pavement (in Portuguese, Calçada Portuguesa), is a traditional style pavement used for many pedestrian areas in Portugal, it can also be found in Olivenza in Spain, and throughout the old Portuguese colonies such as Brazil and Macau. Being usually used in sidewalks, it is in plazas and atriums this art finds its deepest expression.
One of the most distinctive uses of this paving technique is the image of the Saint Queen Elizabeth of Portugal, in Coimbra, designed with black and white stones of basalt and limestone.»
-- Source
In the plaque it can read:
Monument to the "Calceteiros" of the parish of Fanhões.
Inaugurated by the Mayor of Loures, Eng. Adão Barata
Fanhões, 29/11/1999
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