The Magnificent Building. Iconographic Tour and Message of the Palácio da Bolsa

Written by a renowned Portuguese Tour Guide (and Interpreter), the book is a search for the ioconographic meaning of the message transmitted by the bourgeois merchants and of Oporto’s Chamber of Commerce, through the art formed in its Palácio da Bolsa – the Magnificent Building!
The study has more than 300 photographs, diagrams, plans and graphics that help to understand the narrative and symbolic structures of one of the most original buildings of the 19th century in Portugal, full of representativeness of the entrepreneurial brilliance of the wealthy Porto traders of the nineteenth century.