Literature
Camilo Castelo Branco
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Commemorated here
Amores de Camilo Monument
The monument portrays him embracing Ana Plácido beside the former prison associated with his affair and writing.
Lived here
Camilo and Ana’s Wedding House
He lived on the second floor and married Ana Plácido here in 1888.
Burial place
Cemetery of Lapa
He was buried in the Freitas Fortuna family chapel, as he had explicitly requested in a letter to his friend.
Lived here
Grande Hotel Paris
He stayed at the historic lodging house and referred to a room there in A Mulher Fatal.
Created here
Jardim das Virtudes
The Douro landscape visible from Virtudes evokes the fatal closing sequence of his novel Amor de Perdição.
Commemorated here
Livraria Lello
He is honored in the interior sculpture, while the shop’s predecessor publishing house issued Amor de Perdição and much of his work.
Commemorated here
Livraria Moreira da Costa
The shop preserves busts, rare editions and a major bibliographical collection devoted to him.
Created here
Palace of the Count of Bolhão
A frequent guest, he wrote newspaper chronicles about the palace’s balls and intervened in the count’s public marital scandal.
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