Sao Bento Railway Station is located on Almeida Garrett Square in the center of Porto, next to the Sao Bento metro station. The construction of the modern building began in 1900, when King Carlos I laid the first stone of the future station on the site of an abandoned Benedictine monastery, not far from the temporary wooden railway station.
The station building was built in the French neoclassical style, designed by the architect José Marcus de Silva, the interior decoration was done by the artist Jorge Colasu for several years. São Bento Station officially opened to passengers in 1916. In 1968, its reconstruction was carried out, all the tracks were electrified, the station mainly serves suburban destinations.
The walls of the lobby of São Bento are lined with 20,000 pieces of the famous Portuguese azulejos tiles depicting, in blue and white, episodes from the history of Portugal. In the upper part there are pictures from the history of railways, in the middle - battle scenes, in the lower part - pictures of peasant life and historical scenes from the life of Portugal.