History
The Jamor National Sports Centre is today a space devoted to the national sport. Its creation and conception dates back to 1944. The projection of architectural monuments of grandiose countenance was, then, a symbol of progress and modernism that was intended to put Portugal on a map of international sporting events.
Today, the Jamor National Sports Center is a green lung in the heart of Lisbon at the service and within the reach of everyone. A space
of excellence dedicated to leisure and sport to sport of high competition.
History of Vale do Jamor
The right margin of the Jamor River hosted the dream of building a sports center in Portugal. A place that embraced the sport and high performance sport. A place that restraint in Portugal sport routes and international events and at the same time, serve advertising to political demonstrations of the new State.
A space that, in essence, was "a great Park, without luxury, fresh lawns and trees copadas, Lisbon where we play, laugh, play, take fresh air and truly enjoy in intimate conviviality with the
nature ", and your ultimate goal," a place of recreation and sport school for all (...) ".
Its location was not unanimous, but the proximity of Lisbon and the immensity of space were deciding factors. A project conceived and structured in the long term, with the possibility of building new sports and recreational buildings.
The story reports that the design and construction of the National Stadium
should only one personality, but hundreds, perhaps thousands, of figures of the time. It is our duty to highlight: Duarte Pacheco, Minister of public works and communications, as the mentor and Manager of the whole work, and Landscape Architects Cristino da Silva, Carlos Ramos, Jorge Insured, Francisco
Caldeira Cabral, in the creation and design of the project of forest stain of Jamor, and finally the architect Miguel Jacobetty, as the Coordinator of the initial project of the National Stadium.
Source: Official Website
