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Almada Negreiros' murals in a new tourist and cultural center

"Almada's Murals in the Maritime Stations" is the name of the new Interpretive Center, which will open in February 2025. The 14 panels by Almada Negreiros in the Alcântara and Rocha Conde D'Óbidos stations are the largest mural paintings of the 20th century.

The 14 panels by Almada Negreiros at the Alcântara and Rocha Conde D'Óbidos stations are the largest mural paintings of the 20th century

The project is the result of a partnership between the Port of Lisbon and the Lisbon Tourism Association (ATL), and will make it possible to "include the maritime stations and murals, as well as the Interpretive Center, in the Alcântara-Belém cultural and tourist axis", along with museums and monuments such as the Museu do Oriente, MAAT, Museu Nacional do Coches, Jerónimos, Torre de Belém, among others.

For ATL, this is intended "to be a tourist and cultural center that will contribute to a better understanding of the 20th century in Portugal and to an increase in the tourist offer in the city of Lisbon".

At the ceremony to present the interpretive center, Carlos Moedas, the mayor of Lisbon, recalled the "innovative" spirit of the "artist who saw beyond his time. He launched the literary magazine Orpheu, which was to make the country the cultural vanguard of Europe".

This is "what we need to have back in Lisbon, this cultural vanguard of Europe". Almada Negreiros, he stressed, "was the one who, against many, sought new ways of making art, writing and thinking".

The restoration and conservation of the murals is already underway at the Gare da Rocha Conde d Óbidos, with the support of the Word Monumentes Fund, followed by the station buildings, which are due to open at the beginning of next year, with "an approach that is intended to be interactive", and "grants exclusive access as part of the visit to Almada Negreiros' mural paintings".