Designed by Jose Vilaca, this building was built from the ground up in 1933 to host the Tourism Office, thus being the oldest tourism office in the country. With evident neo- renaissance and traditional Estado Novo traits, the structure also integrates sculptural, architectural and tile elements of old buildings of the city from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. among them the stained glass of Ricardo Leone, tiles and faience of Leopoldo Battistini and beautiful neo- Renaissance works of the Sousa Braga house.
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