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Nazaré, Portugal Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Vale de Mendiz, Douro, Portugal Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Luso  is a  Portuguese  town of the  municipality of Mealhada ,  Aveiro district , renowned by its mineral waters.  Águas do Luso , one of the largest Portuguese companies providing  mineral water  is based there. Promenades in portuguese cobblestone pavement Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c Text:  http://en.wikipedia.org

www.roc2c.com Roc2c is a registered brand since 2008, associated to the company Rockview Ltd, located in the town of Redondas, near Alcobaça, Portugal. The company, led by Celso Gonçalves, began in 1999 with stone extraction in about a hundred quarries, allowing a vast knowledge about the product and its application. In 2002 the acquiring of a quarry, transformation and application of this kind of stone. Quality and excellence was a starting point with regard of finding solutions that meet the expectations for each client. Between 2002 and 2008 the implementation of various projects, both nationally and internationally, counted with renowned architects such as Siza Vieira, Roger Herrera, David Chipperfield and Luc Deromme, among others. In this regard, the brand Roc2c was created to provide a better response for customer requirements, providing higher confidence in our service, including the recognition from the architects Siza Vieira and David Chipperfield, by letter of...

Pombal, Leiria, Portugal Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

www.roc2c.com Roc2c has several teams of extraction, transformation and application of natural stone. It also includes a team of designers and architects responsible for customizing each project.In any of our project, our main goal and focus, is to make a high quality lifetime pavement and also the total customer satisfaction.  The process is the one used for many years, based in traditional techniques, and using only high quality cobblestone, so our work can be perfect. - Our Master Pavers team with more than 15 years experience in portuguese pavement;- Our Stone quarry or qualified and certified suppliers; - Traditional paving techniques and methods, mixing different types of cobblestone;- Portuguese cobblestone paving is a lifetime pavement, only made by artisans, art and knowledge passed from generation to generation.

Praça da República,  Ponte de Lima , Viana do Castelo, Portugal Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Brasileira do Chiado is the most emblematic cafe in town and a must for anyone visiting Lisbon. Located in the cosmopolitan Rua Garrett, opposite to the Metro station in Chiado, this cafe is always full (especially with foreign visitors). A Brasileira opened in 1905, by the initiative of Adriano Telles, a Portuguese who made his fortune in Brazil and imported Brazilian coffee to sell it here. It is said that the bica (the Portuguese version of an espresso) was invented here, when this entrepreneur began to serve coffees directly from the machine, avoiding the use of a coffee pot to distribute them into the tables, so that the taste of the drink would be more intense. It soon became a crowded place and in the twenties of the last century it was turned into a meeting point for artists, writers and intellectuals of a new generation, unhappy with the art of that time. These are the artists who latter introduced modernism in Portugal. One of them was Fernando Pessoa, one of Li...

Leiria, Portugal Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Nazaré, Portugal Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Madrid, Espanha Photo: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Largo do Chiado, Lisboa, Portugal 

Lisbon's grandest square faces the river and was originally used to welcome those arriving in the city by boat. This is the 18th century version (renovated in 2010) of the original square which was named "Terreiro do Paço" and home to the royal palace. It was all destroyed by the 1755 earthquake and rebuilt with a triumphal arch facing the river. The arcaded buildings that surround it hold government offices while in the center is a monument to King José I. It is also home to one of the city's most historic cafés (" Martinho da Arcada ") which stands under one of the arcaded buildings. On another side of the square is a tourist office and shop, while opposite those is the Lisboa Story Center which presents the history of the city. Next to it are cafés and restaurants with tables on the terrace outside. Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c Text:  http://www.lisbonlux.com/

Belém Tower  (Portuguese:  Torre de Belém ,  pronounced:  [ˈtoʁ(ɨ) dɨ bɨˈlɐ̃ȷ̃] ) or the  Tower of St Vincent [1]  is a fortified tower located in the civil parish of  Santa Maria de Belém  in the municipality of  Lisbon ,  Portugal . It is a  UNESCO   World Heritage Site  (along with the nearby  Jerónimos Monastery ) [2]  because of the significant role it played in the Portuguese maritime discoveries of the era of the  Age of Discoveries . [3]  The tower was commissioned by  King John II  to be part of a defense system at the mouth of the  Tagus  river and a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon. [3] The tower was built in the early 16th century and is a prominent example of the Portuguese  Manueline  style, [4]  but it also incorporates hints of other architectural styles. [5]  The structure was built from lioz  limestone  and is composed of a  ba...

The Central Park memorial was designed by Bruce Kelly, the chief landscape architect for the  Central Park Conservancy . Strawberry Fields was dedicated on what would have been Lennon's 45th birthday, 9 October 1985, by New York Mayor  Ed Koch  and Lennon's widow  Yoko Ono , who had underwritten the project. The entrance to the memorial is located on  Central Park West  at West  72nd Street , directly across from the  Dakota Apartments , where Lennon had lived for the later part of his life, and where he was  murdered  in 1980. The memorial is a triangular piece of land falling away on the two sides of the park, and its focal point is a circular pathway  mosaic  of inlaid stones, with a single word, the title of Lennon's famous song: " Imagine ". This was a gift from the city of  Naples . [1]  Along the borders of the area surrounding the mosaic are benches which are endowed in memory of other individuals and mai...

Rua Augusta (Augusta street) is located in one of the busiest quarters of Lisbon. Closed to traffic, this pedestrianised street has all sorts of shops for all sorts of tastes, flower peddlars, hot chestnuts sellers, street cafés, independent street Artists like the "statue man" or the familiar harmonica player and many, many more. This street has on both extremes two magnificent squares: the Rossio Square and the Commerce Square. Near the arch that gives way to the Commerce Street you will find many peddlers with all sorts of things to sell from jewellery to shoes to handbags, neck-scarfs to temporary tattoos... anything... just name it! Another curious thing in this area is the name of the streets that run parallel to Rua Augusta. They all come from the occupations or the materials once existent and worked on here: Rua dos Sapateiros (shoemakers), Rua da Prata (silver), Rua do Ouro (gold), etc. The old architectural style, originally from the reconstruction of Lisbon made by...

Rua de S.Paulo, Pavia, Alentejo, Portugal Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c

Champalimaud Foundation, Avenida Brasília, Lisboa, Portugal Photos: Celso Gonçalves Roc2c