Itinerary Alvaro Siza
2025
LA CASA DA ARCHITECTURA offers several architectural tours in and around Porto, including the Álvaro Siza itinerary. This tour takes in the architect's early works, spread between Matosinhos and Leça da Palmeira. It offers a sense of place, context and the architect's ideas and intentions.
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage, Local stay.
Best months to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Janvier, Février, Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin, Juillet, Août, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Décembre.
You can go all year round.
How to get there?
You can get there by , Car, Train.
TOURS D'ARCHITECTURE
From 12€ / person
Travel suitable for :
Detail of the stay : Itinerary Alvaro Siza - 1 day
From Leça da Palmeira to Matosinhos
1 - Casa de Chá da Boa Nova
A building hidden between the rocks, in close articulation with the sea. Listed as a national monument, it is one of architect Álvaro Siza's earliest works and has become an ex-libris in international architecture itineraries.
- Mondays 2 - 5 pm, Tuesdays to Saturdays 9 - 10.30 am
2 - Piscina das Marés
A swimming pool set in the natural landscape. A unique experience of a relationship with the sea in all its fullness.
- Monday to Sunday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
3 - Tennis pavilion and swimming pool at Quinta da Conceição
Designed by Álvaro Siza and his master Fernando Távora. The swimming pool designed by Álvaro Siza completes Fernando Távora's work at Quinta da Conceição, which also houses the Tennis Pavilion, a kind of manifesto of the transition between tradition and modernity.
- Monday to Sunday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
4 - Casa Roberto Ivens
Álvaro Siza's family home, renovated in 1961, initiating a harmonious dialogue between the ancient and the modern that reveals the architect's precocious critical sensibility.
- Monday to Sunday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Each building takes one hour to visit.
The tour has a minimum of 5 participants and a maximum of 25.
Tour price: €12
Reservation by email: [email protected]
