Steam Pumping Station of Barbadinhos – Water Museum
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- (1880)
About the Place
The final reservoir for the water transported by the Alviela aqueduct was built on the site of an abandoned Franciscan convent, occupied between 1747 and 1834 by the order of the Barbadinhos Italianos. This steam pumping station was built next to the aqueduct to pump water to the city and consisted of three sections: a coal tank, a boiler room and a steam engine room. It operated until 1928 and, after several years of inactivity, was converted in 1950 to house the Water Museum. The chimney, some 40 metres high and 1.8 metres in diameter, was demolished, but the steam engines and their pumps, made by the French firm E. Windsor & Fils, were preserved as the main part of the museum’s heritage and as a testimony to industrial archaeology.
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Rua do Alviela, 12
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