Casa das Pescadores - Social Center for fisherman

Social Center in an architectural composition characteristic of the regionalist Portuguese practice in the decades of 1940 and 1960. A mix of elements of the 'Estado Novo' style, also called 'Portuguese Suave' style with decorations on the tower, the flagpole, the raised element at the entrance door, the double tile line and the round window with ironwork and all this combinated with a modernist 'flat roof". The flat roof, called 'açoteias" is tipical for Fuseta (and Olhão) and is related to North African architecture.The construction of social assistance centers, was over the entire country but 'especially' for the fishing centers under responsibility of the General Directorate of National Buildings and Monuments (DGEMN) in collaboration with to Junta Central das Casas dos Pescadores" (MOP)