It is known to all for its typical houses – the haystacks – keeping your portrait fishing, while assuming a seaside town has long devoted to tourism, as such full of social and cultural contrasts, but rich in history and in life.

The old town of Aveiro city is characterized by a former provisions built along narrow streets, alleys and lanes, scenic elements and natural.

Bairro Operário da Vista Alegre

The Vista Alegre neighborhood is one of the few Portuguese cases, and the first in which a totally private, philanthropic initiative founded an industrial village of this scale, self-contained and isolated from other urban areas.

José Ferreira Pinto Basto, the founder of Porcelain Factory Vista Alegre, started in 1824, its construction, in order to house the workers who flocked there from all over the country, with the sole purpose of the work. Its construction aimed to encourage artistic training of workers through education and cultural activities such as theater or the band’s music, which still can be seen on site, featuring bucolic characteristics to the taste of the time and imbued with the artistic spirit that guided the design aesthetics of porcelain.

Bairro da Malhada

Embracing the richness of the resources of Ria – Aveiro Lagoon, settled in the east bank of the Canal Boco a typical neighborhood of fishermen, characterized by the presence of a maritime theme designs on top of their houses.

Inside, there is a very strong testimony of the rural livelihoods of the city population, closely related to the chores Ocean and Ria featuring its Culture, Ethnography and Tradition.

Rua de São Francisco Xavier

3830-619 Gafanha da Nazaré

Phone: 234 364 024 / 234 329 600

E-mail: geral@cm-ilhavo.pt

GPS: 40°38’13.91” |-8°42’57.50”

Until the beginning of the Costa Nova nineteenth century was an extensive uninhabited beach but after the fixation of the Port of Aveiro Barra, fishermen of fishing campaigns of Ílhavo moved to the Costa Nova and began building “haystacks” to keep the networks and other materials associated with fishing.

These were initially large, with no interior partitions and later divided with wooden partitions that were ‘decorated’ with oyster shells. At the same time, the families of its members, clerks and “skipper” of other companies were drawn to the area in the summer months and fall, transforming them in the current “haystacks” with colored stripes and the “bourgeois fashion go baths “the second half of this century, so that they could serve as housing in the bathing season.

Avenida José Estêvão

Costa Nova

3830 Ílhavo

GPS: 40º36’52.632’’ | -8º44’59.222’’

In the eighties came restrictions on fishing in open waters which resulted in the reduction of the fleet and the slaughter of much of it. The Santo André has not escaped the trend. The August 21, 1997 was dismantled. The owner of the vessel, António do Lago Cerqueira, Lda (Fisheries Tavares Mascarenhas, SA) and the Municipality of Aveiro decided to turn the old St. Andrew in museum ship. In August 2001, St. Andrew started a new cycle of life: show gifts and come as were the cod fisheries drag and honor the memory of all his
crew during half a century of activity.

The Ship Museum is anchored in Oudinot Garden in the city of Gafanha of Nazareth, the city of Aveiro.

For these two reasons, and also for local and regional tradition in the production and ceramic painting, it is not surprising that many aspects included in the buildings of the beginning of this century, sometimes combined with influences from other architectural and artistic styles.

The most common Art New elements found on the site are the use of tiles (especially since, in the region, having implemented several factories, even during the nineteenth century), applied in many different ways, wrought iron present at the gates, balconies and windows, the use of wood (interiors of buildings and windows) and also colored glasses.

What makes relevant the Art Nouveau style in this area O built the set and the details of implementation in a significant number of buildings, in various forms, is to be found various architectural styles in one building.

The two villas Papoila (Poppy) (consecutive: Magano and Cruz), are two fine examples of Art Nouveau with tiles application.

Where in Ílhavo

Rua de Camões with Avenida 25 de Abril

Rua de Santo António, 19 and 64

Rua de Santo António (nº 19) – Vila Africana, It is classified as a cultural heritage building and is beautiful the whole building and the walls. Wrought iron, tile gables, sculptural works carved on the facade and the walls, the staircase and the colors used, everything fits in a set that is both Art Nouveau but also exemplary in its variant of this region.