Chelas (Lisbon Metro)

Chelas is a metro station Linha Vermelha the Lisbon Metro, the underground network of the Portuguese capital. The station is located under the street Avenida Dr. Augusto de Castro in the Lisbon municipality Marvila. The neighboring stations are Bela Vista and Olivais; the station went on 19 May 1998.

History

Metro Station chelas belongs - in addition to six other stations - the 1998 newly opened Linha Vermelha that the Naçoes was built for the Universal Exhibition in 1998 in what is now Parque. The station went on 19 May 1998.

The train station designed by architect Ana Nascimento, who participated already in other Lisbon subway stations (including Metro Station Pontinha, modernization of the railway station Roma). However, the draft remains at the customary standards of Lisbon, the station has two 105 -meter-long side platforms and one in the middle, transversely lying mezzanine. Special feature on the mezzanine level are the two larger light sources, bring in the natural light into the station and so the passenger intended to illustrate the proximity between " underground and above-ground world." Another detail is the vertically long, rear light side window to the platform walls. Like all recently built subway stations, the station received three lifts.

Jorge Martins, who was responsible for the artistic design, chose a number of different tile pattern to give the station a very high contrast and colorful image; This is particularly evident evident in the attention-grabbing red tank columns.

In the immediate vicinity of the station there is the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa and the Associação Portuguesa de escola de Condução.

Course

At the subway station connecting flights to the bus lines of the Carris.