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Example sentences for: praça
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For centuries the fresh springs at Fonte de Vila, close to the handsome main square, the Praça Dom Pedro V, have been another of Castelo de Vide’s many attractions.
Just uphill from the river is the Bolsa district, named after the elegant 19th-century Stock Exchange on the Praça do Infante Dom Henrique.
The broad and leafy Avenida da Liberdade runs for 1 km (0.6 mile) north, flanked by gardens, ponds, and fountains, as far as the circular Praça Marquês de Pombal (also known as the Rotunda), where a statue of the dictator Pombal gazes over the city.
For a splendid view over Porto’s colorful jumble of streets and crumbling facades, head west out of the Praça, down Rua Clérigos, and climb the church belltower of the imposing Baroque Igreja de Clérigos.
Finally, in 1908, King Carlos and his eldest son, Luís Filipe, were assassinated as they rode in an open carriage through the Praça do Comércio (see page 31) in Lisbon.