Portas de Benfica

About the venue

The Portas de Benfica are a set of 19th-century buildings that once served as a customs checkpoint, marking the city's tax boundaries [2, 4]. There were once 26 official entrance points into the city, and this was one of them [2, 8, 9]. The original building, featuring eight turrets, was rebuilt in 1996 [2, 8, 9]. Today, it stands as a historical landmark [7].