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he lost amounts of money given by his publisher. When he was in Póvoa he lived in the old Luso-Brazileiro Hotel, with the advantage of neighboring the Café Chinês saloon and, throw there, the streetcars passed in the way to the train station, it was in there he wrote part of his vast written works.
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In the evening downtown is awfully busy, where the saloons and hotel de Itália are located, whose owner, the celebrated actress
Ernestina, during the day runs the hotel and at night stages as first lady in the theater. It is in the same hotel the assembly, in whose saloon crowded by families that
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medical advice, he says that early in the evening he had supper between capitalists and proprietors and later went "had a cup of coffee in Chinês or the Luso-Brasileiro, with the eyes craved in the stage were a blind lady sang every night with nostalgic fainting." D. António da Costa in his book
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having dated a
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The plaza is acceded by small pedestrian streets, which for being short do not make it difficult to enter the square. David Alves is linked to the Praça da República and Praça do Almada, by
Junqueira shopping street and to the beach, through the small Rua dos Cafés street, that celebrates the
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The charismatic square has the name of David Alves, who lived in the northern side of the square, and responsible for the beach district's urban development in the 19th century, and mayor between 1908 and 1910, he used the development and popularity that certain places, such as Póvoa, that in
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In the beginning of the 18th century, Benedictine monks walked distances to take the "Baths of Póvoa", in search of iodine, considered invigorating, and cures for skin and bones problems throw sea and sun-baths. By the 19th century, the popularity increased with people from the provinces of
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watched in there the daily movie sessions, but the building was also demolished in the 1990s, when a shopping center was built. By proposition of the mayor Abílio Garcia de
Carvalho, the square became known as Largo Dr. David Alves on October 8, 1938.
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that arrived by medical advice to cure several health problems, by breathing the air and diving in the rich iodine seawaters of Póvoa, in a popular movement that occurred in the
European Atlantic coast since the 18th century, from
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square. The casino opens to the general public in 1934. Café Chinês is demolished in 1938, and in the saloon site the Póvoa Cine theater is built. Póvoa Cine became a charismatic movie theater.
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This is the only beach in
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BARBOSA, Jorge – Toponímia da Póvoa de Varzim. Póvoa de Varzim
Boletim Cultural. Póvoa de Varzim: Câmara Municipal, Vol. X, nº 1 (1971), p. 121-123.
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