Castelo Branco

The city’s new bus terminal was one of the municipality’s main motivations when promoting the Detailed Plan of the Area of Castelo Branco Railway Station. An operating tool that led to the study of an extended group of alternatives in which to site the principal equipment, namely the new bus terminal. The aim consisted in creating a transport hub that would articulate the north platform of the railway station with a bus terminal and a new car park, providing comfortable connections between the two. In addition to the new building the project included redesigning about 3.7 hectares of public space around the station and the terminal as well as the new Carapalha viaduct over the railway line, constructed on the site of the exist... More