Article source: Rosmaninho+Azevedo – Arquitectos

In 1880, the opening of the Douro railway line provided an alternative to waterway transport. Travellers, but more particularly Port wines and the products necessary to produce them, benefitted from the two hundred kilometres of rail tracks connecting the Spanish border and the city of Porto. Between 1988 and 1990, the last 28 kilometres of this railway and several sections of tributary lines (including Tua), considered insufficiently lucrative, were closed. In 2008, operation of the Tua line ceased entirely. The construction of a dam on the Tua River, approved the following year and requiring 16 kilometres of railway tracks to be flooded, made any re-use of the service definitively impossible.

Image Courtesy © Luís Ferreira Alves

• Architects: Rosmaninho+Azevedo – Arquitectos
• Project: Tua Valley Interpretive Centre
• Location: Carrazeda de Ansiães, Portugal
• Photography: Luís Ferreira Alves
• Software used: Autocad

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