São Sebastião Garden

Tipology

Address

Travessa de São Sebastião, 4000-013 Porto

Promoter

Municipality of Porto

Date of intervention

2025

Presentation

The former São Sebastião Market has been transformed into a garden – São Sebastião Garden – with concrete replaced by green spaces and footpaths, forming a central hub within the city’s urban fabric.

This project contributes to increasing the amount of urban green space, improving rainwater infiltration, regulating the local microclimate, carbon sequestration, improving air quality and creating habitat for living beings such as pollinating insects and urban birds.

In addition to its ecological benefits, this intervention also has a social dimension, transforming this space into a public green area that provides greater safety for local residents.

Ecological functions

Improving quality of life; Promoting biodiversity; Reducing extreme weather events; Reducing noise; Regulating air quality; Regulating temperature; Regulating flooding; Carbon sequestration

Sustainable Development Goals

3. Good Health and Well-being; 11. Sustainable cities and communities; 13. Climate action; 15. Life on Land

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