4.1.2 The Old Ferry Terminal

Location HERE.

Look round to the east, and you’ll see if any cruise liners are visiting. Closer and more modestly sized seaborne transport comes in the form of the catamarans working the Barreiro ferry service.


Next to the ferry terminal - and closer to the square - is the Terminal Fluvial Sul e Sueste, originally called Estação do Sul e Sueste. A railway station without tracks or trains: until The Bridge was rebuilt to include a rail deck, you would start your journey here if travelling by train to the Alentejo or Algarve, travelling by ferry to Barreiro, then changing there to a waiting train.

After long distance trains were diverted to run over The Bridge and into Oriente, a new ferry terminal was constructed and the old building fell into disrepair. Now it has been restored to its 1931 original state.


Designed by José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo, who gets a bad rap because of his allegedly too close relationship with the Estado Novo, it has an arched façade on land and river sides to echo the arches in the Praça do Comércio, but inside is unapologetically Art Deco. Low seating, uplighters, marble columns, geometrically patterned tiled floor, all right angles, and with the obligatory flat roof. Also included are coats of arms of the destinations served (apparently CT wasn’t keen on this feature, but it adds to the experience).


For the Alentejo (Sueste) these are Setúbal, Évora, Beja, Estremoz (no longer served by rail), and Portalegre (served by rail but not this way). Sul (Algarve) destinations shown are Faro, Tavira, Lagos, Silves and Portimão.

The café, formerly the first class waiting room, has Azulejos around its walls.

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