2023 - Portugal - 8 - Lisbon - 8 of 125 - Real de São José Mural
A historic azulejo tiled mural on Traverssa do Hospital 1 rules over the horse-cart entrance of the early hospital.
Hospital Real de São José, dates to the Convent of Santo Antão-o-Novo. The hospital entrance door is surmounted by a decorative tile panel, from the beginning of the 18th century.
The street name comes from its proximity to the Hospital de S. José, which in 1755 was opened in the building that was the Convent and College of the Jesuits of Santo Antão-o-Novo.
The tiled panel represents Santo Antão, São João and São Domingos. The tunnel is the former Car(t) Door of the Royal Hospital of São José Armando Serôdio, in Lisbon of ancient times.
Travessa do Hospital (de São José) street appears in the Atlas of the Topographic Map of Lisbon, from 1858 under the name of Travessa da Porta do Carro de São José. The "car" in prior to 1858, is something that today we would call a cart, drawn by horses.
So a cart door (porta do carro) in the street name is the place itself.
Going up the road was an entrance to the Hospital de São José with the imposing tile panel overhead. It's a huge door and it doesn't go unnoticed.
The road today is named Real de São José.
2023 - Portugal - 8 - Lisbon - 8 of 125 - Real de São José Mural
A historic azulejo tiled mural on Traverssa do Hospital 1 rules over the horse-cart entrance of the early hospital.
Hospital Real de São José, dates to the Convent of Santo Antão-o-Novo. The hospital entrance door is surmounted by a decorative tile panel, from the beginning of the 18th century.
The street name comes from its proximity to the Hospital de S. José, which in 1755 was opened in the building that was the Convent and College of the Jesuits of Santo Antão-o-Novo.
The tiled panel represents Santo Antão, São João and São Domingos. The tunnel is the former Car(t) Door of the Royal Hospital of São José Armando Serôdio, in Lisbon of ancient times.
Travessa do Hospital (de São José) street appears in the Atlas of the Topographic Map of Lisbon, from 1858 under the name of Travessa da Porta do Carro de São José. The "car" in prior to 1858, is something that today we would call a cart, drawn by horses.
So a cart door (porta do carro) in the street name is the place itself.
Going up the road was an entrance to the Hospital de São José with the imposing tile panel overhead. It's a huge door and it doesn't go unnoticed.
The road today is named Real de São José.