Breiner street

Breiner street - is a street in the parish of Cedofeita of the city of Porto, in Portugal.

The street will get its name from the governor of Porto's Justices, Pedro de Melo Breiner, who died imprisoned in 1830 for following Liberalism and the party of D. Pedro.

History

The round plan of Porto, authored by George Balck and dated 1813, already presents the street of the Breiner, although not yet completely finished. The area remained sparsely urbanized in the following twenty years, as evidenced by Clarke's plan [1833].

Between 1932 and 1931, the first Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, a school founded by Leonardo Coimbra, was installed at no. 16 of Breiner Street. The proximity to the historical building of the University, in which the Faculty of Sciences and the services of the Rectory functioned, was decisive for the choice of Breiner Street to accommodate the FLUP facilities. The faculty would, however, be extinguished in 1931 (only to be reactivated in 1961, already elsewhere). After the extinction of the faculty, the building was occupied by the Higher Institute of Engineering of Porto and, from 1968, by Secondary School of Sources Pereira de Melo. With the transfer of the school to new facilities constructed of root in The Neighborhoods of the Bessa Stadium, in 1987, the building remained vacant.

In the number 155 of the street of the Breiner has worked for many decades British Council - British Institute of Porto.

Given the proximity of the street of Miguel Bombarda in recent years, Breiner has also been experiencing a commercial and cultural expansion, becoming a place of artists' fixation, opening of conservation and restoration ateliers, vegetarian restaurants, designer shops, Music and arts academies, etc.