Wandering Porto

》The Palácio da Bolsa/Associação Comercial do Porto

Located in a neoclassical style building, whose construction started on the 6th October 1842, the day where the first stone was put to place, due to the closure of the stock exchange which was was built to impress potential European investors.

》Museu da Misericórdia has a painted iron sculpture by Rui Chafes...

It starts next to the entrance door of Casa do Despacho, on the left side, and extends outwards, towards the street, in the form of a jet of blood ending in a drop, perpetually dripping onto the ground. You only get a full reading of this work when you leave the street and enter the museum, walk through its rooms and, in the last one, move from admiring the Fons Vitae to contemplating the sculpture. Because this piece, according to the author himself, will be a “vein of blood between Jesus Christ and Men, between Jesus Christ and the Earth. It will be a vein that unites all of this.” Therefore, a vein of blood that springs from the Source of Life that is Jesus, and projects outwards, towards men, towards the world.Read more