Children's architecture
Introduction
Portugal dos Pequeñitos (translatable into Spanish as Portugal de los Pequeñitos) is a children's theme park located in the Portuguese city of Coimbra. The park shows children's scale reproductions of the most representative monuments of Portuguese history and architecture.[1].
Designed by Professor Fernando Bissaya Barreto and designed by architect Cassiano Branco, it was built in 3 phases: the first (between 1938 and 1940) involved the recreation of typical structures from the Trás-os-Montes and Minho regions. The second (in the middle of the century) illustrated the country's monuments and the third (at the end of the 50's) reconstructed symbolic structures of the Azores, Madeira and the overseas possessions at that time.[2].
The park is divided into 3 zones:
• - The first area is made up of a group of Portuguese regional houses. Plots of Trás-os-Montes and Minho, typical houses of each region with orchards, gardens, chapels and other architectural elements represented on a small scale. The Coimbra complex also belongs to this nucleus, a space where the most important monuments of the city are represented.[2][3][4].
• - The second zone integrates the “monumental area”, an illustrative space of the national monuments from north to south of the country. The copy of the window of the Convent of Christ in Tomar, by Valentim de Azevedo, stands out.[2][3][4].
• - The third area encompasses the ethnographic and monumental representation of the Portuguese-speaking African countries, Brazil, Macao, India and Timor, surrounded by vegetation typical of these regions. This phase also integrates monuments from the autonomous regions of Madeira and Azores.[2][3][4].
• - This work contains a partial translation derived from «Portugal dos Pequenitos» from Wikipedia in English, published by its editors under the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
• - Wikimedia Commons hosts a multimedia category on Portugal dos Pequenitos.
• - Official website Archived August 3, 2010 at the Wayback Machine. (in Portuguese and English).
References
- [1] ↑ «Portugal dos Pequenitos, la ciudad de los niños». Vigopeques. Consultado el 26 de julio de 2019.: https://www.vigopeques.com/portugal-dos-pequenitos-la-ciudad-de-los-ninos/
- [2] ↑ a b c d «Portugal dos Pequenitos» (en portugués). Lisboa: Ministerio de Cultura de Portugal - Dirección General de Patrimonio Cultural. Consultado el 26 de julio de 2019.: http://www.monumentos.gov.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=27217
- [3] ↑ a b c «Portugal dos Pequenitos, Coímbra». TurismoenPortugal.org. Consultado el 26 de julio de 2019.: https://www.turismoenportugal.org/portugal-dos-pequenitos-coimbra
- [4] ↑ a b c «Portugal dos pequenitos». Ver Coímbra. Consultado el 26 de julio de 2019.: http://www.vercoimbra.com/portugal-dos-pequenitos-de-coimbra.html