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Jardim da República
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Description
The Jardim da República, opposite Lamego Town Hall, was built on the former Campo do Tablado and is still known today as the Campo garden. The field was a vast public space where various public events took place and which was opposite the Chagas Convent, founded in the 16th century by D. António Teles de Menezes, Bishop of Lamego.
Only the church remains of the convent and the Liceu Latino Coelho was built around it. To the north of the garden is Isidoro Guedes Park, built on the Gracianos' fence. In 1830, a fountain called "O Lamego" was built in the field, which, with the construction of the garden, was dismantled in 1923 and re-erected on the current site, at a lower level than the garden terrace and connected to it by a staircase. The garden is supported by magnificent granite walls and has a boulevard in the center, aligned with the Renaissance portico of the Chagas, parallel to the Town Hall, flanked by two buried bowls with statues in the center surrounded by boxwood beds.
The garden's distinguishing features are the old olive trees, the bandstand, the pergolas, the statue of the Lamec poet Fausto Guedes Teixeira (1871-1940), the tiles with Douro scenes by Jorge Rey Colaço and the calendar in topiary.
(Text by Teresa Andresen).
