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The Cais do Sodré Railway Station () is an intermodal
railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
in the
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of
Misericórdia Misericórdia () is a ''freguesia'' (civil parish) and district of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Located in the historic center of Lisbon, Misericórdia is to the east of Estrela, west of Santa Maria Maior, and south of Santo António. It is ...
, in the
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of
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, serving as the terminus of the suburban route to the resort town
Cascais Cascais () is a town and municipality in the Lisbon District of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera, Estoril Coast. The municipality has a total of 214,158 inhabitants in an area of 97.40 km2. Cascais is an important tourism in Port ...
.


History

In 1925, the company ''Sociedade Estoril'' elaborated a project for a station along the margin of the civil parish of
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. The station was completed and inaugurated on 18 August 1928. A new roof was built over the platforms in 1960, but on 28 May 1963 this collapsed while one train was loading and another was unloading. About 50 people were killed and many more injured. In 1993, metro station was opened to link the railway station, a project of Nuno Teotónio Pereira, who was contracted in 1998 to remodel the site. He was brought back in 2000, in order to construct the river terminal along the northern margin of the
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. On 4 August 1995, there was a proposal to classify the railway station by URBE. A dispatch to begin the classification process was instituted on 20 OCtober 2004, by the vice-president of IPPAR, which was later amended on 24 August 2007 (to status of ''Imóvel de Interesse Público''), and later, on 23 November 2011, ''Conselho Nacional de Cultura'' (''National Council of Culture'') proposed its classification as a ''Monumento de Interesse Público'' (''Monument of Public Interest''). It was on 30 January 2012, when the project was descively classified and its area of protection designated (Announcement 1216/2012, Diário da República, Série 2, 15).


Architecture

It is an inter-modal exchange connecting the
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, rail-lines and river terminal centre, a complex situated at the ''Duque de Terceira''square. The station is adjacent to the Lisbon Metro station (which is the terminus for the
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's Green Line) and isolated along the northern margin of Tagus River, with ferry service to
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,
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and Montijo (the Transtejo & Soflusa service). The station comprises a building with three bodies juxtapositioned in an "U" design, with the steel and tiled central hall covering the rail-lines that parallel the Tagus River and ''Avenida 24 de Julho''. The main hall, that includes the vestibule ticket offices, is a rectangular body with terrace oriented to the northeast. Its main facade is divided into three sections with the identical lateral bodies of smaller dimensions, with the central composed of five ample bodies on the first floor, decorated by extensive rectangular flaps supported by four corbels. To the second floor, is an ample surface topped by
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, decorated by small geometric elements in triangular forms. The lateral bodies, that include one per floor are demarcated and separated by a panel of rectangular mosaics. Flanking the pans, are striated bronze columns that extend down to the bas-relief of the same material that finishes the span of the second floor. To finish off the facade, there is a paltibanda with cornice in a collapsed arch. Attached to the main building are two similar annex bodies with identical facades, consisting of two floors of simple rectangular spans decorated in intervals by geometric mosaic panels. The northern rectangular body, covered in tile, has an extensive facade that parallels the public roadway. The eastern annex is an "L"-shape building with lateral facade oriented to the south that correspond to administrative services. Juxtapositioned to the main body on either side are triangular spans with curved apex that resembles the decorative discourse of the main facades. The Art Deco design was by Porfírio Pardal Monteiro (1897–1957) and the Metro station is decorated with works by abstract artist
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, in addition to an underground waterfall.


Surrounding area

The station is located directly north of the
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, and provides access to the waterfront area. The
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is located slightly north of the station.


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