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The Capela das Almas is a chapel on Rua de Santa Catarina, Porto's main shopping street, rebuilt in the late 18th century and enlarged in 1801. In 1929 its outer walls were covered with 15,947 blue and white azulejo tiles by Eduardo Leite, made by the Viúva Lamego factory in Lisbon, showing the lives of Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Catherine.

São Bento Station is a railway terminus in Porto's historic centre, built from 1904 to plans by architect José Marques da Silva on the site of a Benedictine convent. Its entrance hall is lined with about 20,000 azulejo tiles painted by Jorge Colaço between 1905 and 1916, showing episodes of Portuguese history and scenes of rural life.

The Church of Saint Ildefonso stands above Praça da Batalha in Porto; built from 1709 on the site of a medieval chapel, it was blessed in 1739. Its twin-towered granite façade carries about 11,000 azulejo tiles by Jorge Colaço from 1932, and inside are a retable by Nicolau Nasoni and a small museum of sacred art.

The Dom Luís I Bridge is a double-deck iron arch bridge over the Douro between Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia, designed by Théophile Seyrig and built by the Belgian Société de Willebroek. Its 172-metre arch opened in 1886; the upper deck now carries Metro line D and pedestrians, and the lower deck links the Ribeira quay with the Gaia waterfront.

The Crystal Palace Gardens are a public park on a hill in Porto's Massarelos district, laid out in the 1860s by the German landscape gardener Émile David around the city's former Crystal Palace. The palace was replaced in the 1950s by the domed Rosa Mota Pavilion; avenues, fountains and terraces look out over the Douro.