Industrial and derelict locations to film in Portugal
11 of them, 2 with a photo and 2 with practical details the location publishes itself. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build.
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Central Tejo, MAAT
Industrial & derelict
Former early 20th century thermoelectric power station on the Lisbon riverfront in Belem, now part of the MAAT museum complex, with its former turbine halls hired out for corporate events.
Fábrica Braço de Prata
Industrial & derelict
A former military ammunition factory in Marvila, Lisbon, converted into a cultural complex with a theatre, bar and exhibition halls across its old industrial buildings.
Adega Baía da Arruda
Industrial & derelict
Small working winery on Pico Island in the Azores, set among the UNESCO-listed currais, stone-walled plots that shelter vines grown directly on volcanic rock.
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Barbadinhos Steam Pumping Station
Industrial & derelict
Steam-powered water pumping station in Xabregas that operated from 1880 to 1928, preserving four steam engines inside its industrial hall as part of Lisbon's water museum.
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Corroios Tide Mill
Industrial & derelict
Restored 17th century tide mill on the Coina estuary in Seixal, part of the Seixal municipal ecomuseum, using the rise and fall of the tide to power its milling machinery.
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Loulé Rock Salt Mine
Industrial & derelict
Underground rock salt mine in the Algarve hinterland near Loulé, with excavated caverns and tunnels used for cave and underground filming; coordinates mark the town centre, not the mine entrance.
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Lousal Mining Museum
Industrial & derelict
Former pyrite-mining village in Grandola built around a twentieth-century mining company's power plant, now a museum with mining machinery, tools and worker housing.
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Mourisca Tide Mill
Industrial & derelict
Restored tide mill on the Sado estuary near Setúbal, using the rise and fall of the tide to turn its grinding wheels, now managed as a heritage and educational site.
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Rabelo Boat Yard
Industrial & derelict
Working shipyard on the Douro riverfront in Porto that still builds and repairs traditional rabelo boats once used to carry Port wine barrels downriver.
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Sao Domingos Mine
Industrial & derelict
Abandoned open-pit copper and pyrite mining complex near Mertola, worked from the 1850s to 1966, left with ochre-coloured pit lakes, spoil heaps and derelict processing buildings.
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Wine Cellars Jose Maria da Fonseca
Industrial & derelict
Historic wine cellars of one of Portugal's oldest table wine producers, founded in 1834 in Azeitao, with ageing cellars, a museum house and production buildings open to visitors.
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Industrial and derelict locations elsewhere in Europe
- Germany 48
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- United Kingdom 39
- France 36
- Italy 30
- Poland 28
- Czech Republic 22
- Netherlands 15
- Greece 14
- Romania 13
- Hungary 10
- Serbia 10
Other kinds of location in Portugal
- Theatres, arenas and venues 8
- Offices, schools and public buildings 8
- Transport and infrastructure 11
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