A station that blossomed too
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Not every memory of the railway is made of metal.
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The station also has a memory made of flowers. The museum publication describes its rose gardens and recalls the distinction it received in 1962 as Portugal’s most flower-filled station.
Alongside machines and rails, the garden adds another way to see the place: a station’s landscape includes what grows around it. The award belongs to the history of the site; it is not a current rating of the gardens.
Source and context
Municipality — Land Museum of Basto: a journey through the history of the region, pp. 28–29
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