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Old Relação Prison (Porto): the Old Relação Prison is located on the Mártires da Pátria Field and was rebuilt under the classical style in 1765. Famous Portuguese personalities passed through this prison’s cells. It’s the case of Camilo Castelo Branco that wrote on a cell his famous romance "Amor de Perdição". Comercial Restaurant (Porto): this is one of the city’s ex-libris and it was founded in 1849. Its magnificent interior atmospheres, composed by stained glass windows, mirrors and artistic furniture, used to invite the clients to have there their business or social meetings. By the final sixties it was turned into a teahouse and cake shop, but it still maintains the original façade. Porto Wine Institute Building (Porto): on the building that works as the headquarters of the Porto Wine Institute the highlights are the marble memorial stones that evoke determinant dates and facts of this wine’s history, the images related to the wine, the Noble Saloon and the library. S. Lázaro’s Garden (Porto): the S. Lázaro’s Garden is the most ancient municipal garden in all Porto. The idea of creating the garden was born in 1833, as a result of ending a fair that took place there. Undergoing several changes, it managed to maintain some aspects considered a distinctive mark. It’s the case of the marble fountain, in times gone by belonging to the S. Domingos convent, of the railing and the four gates that surround it, the romantic bandstand and some of the oldest trees of this city.