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Viterbo'8 - The Artists House is a set of eight apartments in the historic area of Porto, with a unique and original concept. Viterbo'8 - The Artists House is a tribute to eight styles of art, representing various Portuguese artists and their contribution to Art in Portugal. The place name of the house - Viterbo - is also a tribute to Francisco Marques Sousa Viterbo. Born in Porto in 1845, Sousa Viterbo was a multifaceted personality who unfolded in several areas, having been a poet, archaeologist, historian and journalist. The Viterbo'8 - The Artists House is an extension of the spirit of a city where you can breathe Art in every corner, in its most varied forms, with an irreverent decoration, perfectly aligned with the artistic environment to which each apartment is dedicated, house transports you to a dimension where each space and every detail are true works of art. Portuguese culture, history and traditions are present in the smallest details of the apartments. Your stay in whatever apartment you book, will let you know Portugal through a unique and different perspective, where each apartment represents a part of the country's history and artists who changed the course of that history. Discover our apartments, each with a different identity and choose your ideal accommodation according to the type of Art you most appreciate and identify with.
Apartment Pintura
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On the second floor of the Viterbo8 The Artists House, we find the Apartamento Pintura that celebrates Portuguese painting, in the smallest details. With paintings by Sofia Gonçalves and her sister Cátia Gonçalves hanging on the walls, the painting is represented not only in the paintings, but also on the sofa and the pillow patterns.
Apartment Literatura
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Apartamento Literatura is a mirror of the history of Portugal. With a quote from the most acclaimed Portuguese epic work - Os Lusíadas - in a room in the apartment, it is clear the tribute to Luís Vaz de Camões.
The writer of Os Lusíadas was one of the greatest figures in Portuguese literature, marking generations and generations with his work, and Apartamento Literatura brings to light this personality so important to Portuguese culture.
Apartment Teatro
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Apartamento Teatro brings you a tribute to Portuguese theater, an art style that has been present in the country's history for many centuries. With literary works and other elements that refer to the theater, this apartment resembles Filipe La Féria, a Portuguese director and playwright, who revolutionized the Portuguese magazine, making his work very different from the others.
Apartment Arquitetura
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Apartamento Arquitetura lives on the second floor of the Viterbo8 The Artists House and illustrates Portuguese architecture, an artistic style marked by various eras in history, which has resulted in a heritage where the influence of different cultural and aesthetic movements is palpable.
Apartamento Arquitetura comes to represent acclaimed names of contemporary Portuguese architecture, as is the case of Álvaro Siza Vieira and Eduardo Souto Moura, both holders of the most important recognition that an architect can receive. Both Siza Vieira and Souto Moura won the biggest world award in the field of architecture: the Pritzker Prize.
- Internet access - high speed
- Air Conditioning
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Television
- Electronic / magnetic keys
- Iron / ironing board (on request)
- Internet access - free
- Bathrobe
- Kitchenette
- In-room temperature control
- Espresso machine
- Tea and Coffee
Apartment Cinema
Accommodation only
For lovers of Seventh Art, Apartamento Cinema is the ideal place. With a characteristic decoration, where the projector and other details related to cinema are highlighted, this apartment presents an emblematic quote from Portuguese Cinema, given by Vasco Santana.
This apartment is a tribute to Vasco Santana, an actor who has become a legend of Portuguese cinema leaving his mark in numerous phrases, which today are part of our popular culture.
Apartment Música
Accommodation only
It is inevitable to enter Apartamento Música and not feel like humming. In all divisions it is possible to find elements that trace the identity of this apartment, in a true homage to Fado and Amália Rodrigues.
When we think of Portuguese music, we think of Fado, and when we think of Fado, we think of Amália Rodrigues, and that is what is represented in spaces through images and elements such as the microphone, which give the apartment a whole musical dimension.
Apartment Cerâmica
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The Cerâmica Apartment is the perfect place for those who see comfort in the smallest things. With soft and neutral colors, this apartment mirrors a very characteristic Art in Portugal - Ceramics.
At Apartamento Cerâmica you can witness a tribute to Bordallo Pinheiro, in his unmistakable style, with his decorative pieces that fill the space with color and liveliness.
Apartment Filigrana
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Located on the fourth floor of the Viterbo8 The Artists House, is the Filigrana Apartment, which is a space dedicated to Portuguese Filigree, an Art very characteristic of Portuguese culture, which is passed on from generation to generation.
This apartment, full of golden notes that refer to the golden threads of the filigree, comes to honor Queen D. Maria I, who will have had the first Heart of Viana executed, giving rise to this very unique piece.
