Last updated: October 2021
This NBS refers to the rehabilitation of a park in 2001, a park which is private as well as a foundation, and its grounds are impeccably well kept. It expands on 18 hectares and its origin dates back to 1923 when Carlos Alberto Cabral, the 2nd Count of Vizela, inherited the Quinta do Lordelo estate, the family’s summer residence in the Rua de Serralves (which was then on the outskirts of Oporto). The garden of the Quinta do Lordelo estate was probably designed by one of the city’s nursery gardeners and was inspired on 19th-century Victorian models. (1)
Overview
Nature-based solution
- Parks and urban forests
- Large urban parks or forests
Key challenges
- Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
- Habitat and biodiversity conservation
- Green space creation and/or management
- Regeneration, land-use and urban development
- Promote natural styles of landscape design for urban development
- Health and well-being (SDG 3)
- Creation of opportunities for recreation
- Cultural heritage and cultural diversity
- Preservation of natural heritage
- Protection of historic and cultural landscape/infrastructure
Focus
Maintenance and management of urban nature, Protection of natural ecosystems
Project objectives
1. Preserving the most important species already existing on the site.
2. Offering education and raising society’s awareness concerning the importance of protecting landscape heritage, and the need to conciliate heritage space with cultural manifestations and processes determined by contemporary society, without undermining its integrity and permanence.
3. Adaptation of the spaces and/or the structuring elements and composition via various interventions, which made it possible to resolve problems affecting current and future use, function and aptitude. Rehabilitation is an intervention process by means of which the integrity of the heritage in question is safeguarded. (1,2)
Implementation activities
The intervention area defined by the Recovery Project included the space of the garden designed in 1932 by Jacques Gréber and other areas of the Serralves Foundation’s estate, such as the Southern and South-East borders, with farming characteristics and the Woodland located to the West. Only the area around the Museum of Contemporary Art, together with the Collection of Aromatic Plants, was excluded from the Recovery Project. The construction job for implementation of the project was subdivided into 14 time periods and staggered in terms of the respective zones, thus enabling Serralves Park to remain open to the public during the works, and the construction process, accompanied by an in situ and in visual communication plan, also had a pedagogical function. Design of the Recovery and Enhancement Project of Serralves Park was accompanied by a Consultative Committee constituted by landscape architects, Aurora Carapinha, Teresa Andresen, Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles and Ilídio de Araújo. (1
Biodiversity conservation or restoration-focused activities
Biodiversity conservation:
- Protect and enhance urban habitats
- Preserve and strengthen existing habitats and ecosystems
- Protect species
- Undertake specific measures to protect species
- Means for conservation governance
- Raise public awareness
- Public engagement
Main beneficiaries
- Private sector/Corporate/Company
- Researchers/University
- Citizens or community groups
- Young people and children
Governance
Management set-up
- Led by non-government actors
Type of initiating organisation
- Private foundation/trust
Participatory approaches/ community involvement
- Unknown
Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project
This NBS has been conducted and implemented by Serralves , a cultural institution located in Porto, Portugal, and one of the most important of all the country. It includes a Contemporary Art Museum, a Park and a Villa, each one an example of contemporary architecture, Modernism, and Art Deco architecture (4)
Project implemented in response to ...
... an EU policy or strategy?
No
... a national policy or strategy?
No
... a local policy or strategy?
No
Financing
Total cost
Unknown
Source(s) of funding
- Private Foundation/Trust
Type of funding
- Unknown
Non-financial contribution
No
Impacts and Monitoring
Environmental impacts
- Unknown
Economic impacts
- Unknown
Socio-cultural impacts
- Education
- Increased support for education and scientific research
- Increased knowledge of locals about local nature
Type of reported impacts
Expected impacts
Presence of formal monitoring system
Yes
Presence of indicators used in reporting
Yes
Presence of monitoring/ evaluation reports
No evidence in public records
Availability of a web-based monitoring tool
No evidence in public records
References
1. Serralves Park and Foundation (no date), Restauration, Available at Source link, (Accessed 22-6-2020)
2. Catavino (no date), The Lush Green Parks and Gardens of Porto, Portugal, Available at Source link (Accessed 22-6-2020)
3. de Vries, J. (2011), Jacques Gréber, Urbanist and Garden Designer, Available at Source link (Accessed 22-6-2020)
2. Catavino (no date), The Lush Green Parks and Gardens of Porto, Portugal, Available at Source link (Accessed 22-6-2020)
3. de Vries, J. (2011), Jacques Gréber, Urbanist and Garden Designer, Available at Source link (Accessed 22-6-2020)