Zona Histórica da Sé do Porto

Rua de Santana (by the Cathedral) "The old gate of the city wall was called "Arco de Sant'Ana" (St. Anne's Arch) after 1524. The gate should therefore have borne the image of St. Anne since the mid-16th century. Sousa Reis left a description of the Arch that was immortalised by Garrett: "All of St. Anne's Arch was of modern architecture, and erected as I have said, almost in the middle of the street that one climbs to get to the Largo do Collegio de São Lourenço, commonly called Grillos, and covered the narrow space of the street: above it was an oratory, which had a glazed window facing the higher side, or the referred Grillos Monastery; it contained the image of the Saint after which it was named (...). The arch was demolished in the month of August 1821(...)." The gate is all that remains of the St. Anne's Arch, which when opened, on its left, gave access to the niche where the image of St. Anne, the Virgin and the Infant Jesus was. After the demolition of the arch, it was sheltered in the São Crispim Chapel. The 17th-century gate, cut into the granite wall, can still be seen today, with the few steps that give access to the image of St. Anne, which was recently placed there, as part of the restoration work undertaken by the Porto's City Council. Almeida Garrett started the historic novel O Arco de Sant'Ana: crónica portuguesa - Manuscrito achado no Convento dos Grilos por um soldado do Corpo Académico (St. Anne's Arch: Porto's chronicle - A Manuscript found in the Grilos Convent by a soldier in the Academic Corps), whilst he was quartered here during the Siege of Porto (1832-33). "

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