RUA EMILIANO COSTA

South Modern Residencial Area

Rua dos Bombeiros Portugueses

Rua Emiliano Costa

Rua Ataide de Oliveira

Rua Jeronimo Osorio

Rua Jose Joaquim de Moura

Area almost 100% South Modern. Built in 1950’s.

Buildings still occupied and in good conditions.

Obviously all the local modernist architects have been involved. Including MGdC, Jorge de Oliveira.

Most of buildings still have the original doors, check those out !

GOOD TO KNOW :

Those streets are part of the ambicious 1945 development town plan of Faro directed by architect Joao Aguiar. Streets made of residential area with a predominance of green spaces and Economic family houses, which are good examples of the South Modern Movement.