Walking Through Porto, Portugal. Part 2
Last week, I described the start of my walk through Porto’s Old City, from my hotel to the São Bento train station. This week, I am continuing that trek through Portugal’s second city. The São Bento station sits at the bottom of a ravine, but my next stop was up at its top, a climb of over 20m in a distance of 600m. I was headed to the Portuguese Center for Photography. The center was founded in 1996, as more and more of the photographers who had been exiled during the Salazar regime returned to the country. The museum is housed in the former Caderia da Relacão, a former prison. Center of Portuguese Photography by By Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, via wikimedia The main exhibition on display was Despojos de Guerra (Spoils of War) by Leonel de Castro. These photos document the injuries that occurred during the various wars of liberation in the Portuguese colonies in Africa. The second exhibit was photos taken during during the revolution of April 25, 1974. Th...