{"id":1919,"date":"2016-03-08T17:54:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T17:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/38.242.230.232\/~portoalities\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2021-12-03T20:09:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T20:09:30","slug":"why-is-camellia-the-flower-of-porto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portoalities.com\/en\/why-is-camellia-the-flower-of-porto\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is camellia the flower of Porto?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although camellias are originally from Southeast Asia, from countries stretching from China to Japan, in Porto they found themselves at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lZKXq1nGdXI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">make a video<\/a> (with English subtitles, of course!) to explain to you why Porto is the city of camellias \ud83d\ude42<br><br>The first record of camellias in Porto date back to 1810, when Luis Van Zeller ordered these flowers from England. Probably it is not a coincidence that there was a well established English community in Porto, most connected to <a href=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/why-are-port-wine-cellars-in-gaia\/\">Port wine trade<\/a>, as it was precisely in England that the first camellia in Europe appeared, in 1739.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bento-de-Amorim-AM-de-Silva-e-Filhos-1968-1-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Bento-de-Amorim-AM-de-Silva-e-Filhos-1968-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Bento de Amorim AM de Silva e Filhos 1968\" class=\"wp-image-1996\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Camellia Bento de Amorim, A. M. de Silva &amp; Filhos, 1968.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Peonia-Superba-JMLoureiro-1881-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Peonia-Superba-JMLoureiro-1881-1.jpg\" alt=\"Peonia Superba JMLoureiro 1881\" class=\"wp-image-1997\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Camellia Peonia Superba, J. M. Loureiro, 1881.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rainha-D-Maflada-JML-18651-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rainha-D-Maflada-JML-18651-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rainha D Maflada, JML 1865\" class=\"wp-image-2001\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Camellia Queen Mafalda, J. M. Loureiro, 1865.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rainha-D-Estefania-1865-PT-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rainha-D-Estefania-1865-PT-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rainha D Estefania 1865 PT\" class=\"wp-image-2000\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Camellia Queen Estef\u00e2nia, J. M. Loureiro, 1865.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Joana Andresen Guedes, former president of the Portuguese Association of Camellias, the bourgeois families that had the possibility of making trips abroad, brought this species, at the time considered exotic, that they first saw in international fairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, in the early nineteenth century there were the first private gardens with camellias in Porto, at the hands of the Van Zeller family in their Quinta de Fi\u00e3es, and the Allen family, at their Quinta Vilar d&#8217;Allen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had the pleasure to visit the latter this week, which has a beautiful romantic garden with numerous camellias, built in the mid-eighteenth century and carefully taken care of by the current owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Alfredo-Allen-1865-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Alfredo-Allen-1865-1.jpg\" alt=\"Alfredo Allen 1865\" class=\"wp-image-1992\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Camallia Alfredo Allen, 1865. Photo taken at Quinta Vilar d&#8217;Allen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Vanzelleria-1844-PT-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Vanzelleria-1844-PT-1.jpg\" alt=\"Vanzelleria 1844 PT\" class=\"wp-image-1993\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Camellia Vanzelleria, 1844.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Camellias quickly adapted to the mild temperatures and the acid soils of Porto. In such a way that in 1849, when the poet Carducci Giusu\u00e8 visited the king Carlos Alberto, exiled in Porto, he wrote that &#8220;Porto is a river running between camellias.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the golden age of camellias in Porto took over at the hands of the most famous Porto&#8217;s horticulturist, Jos\u00e9 Marques Loureiro (1830-1898), owner of the largest collection in the country at that time. A very intelligent man, Jos\u00e9 M. Loureiro surrounded himself with the most influent people of Porto and established trade relationships abroad that allowed him to bring greater expression to horticulture in Portugal.<br>He ordered many exotic species of camellias from abroad, and in 1865 he participated in the International Exhibition at the <a href=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/crystal-palace-gardens-in-porto\/\">Crystal Palace<\/a>. In this exhibition, Jos\u00e9 M. Loureiro reproduced the family tree of the Royal Family of Portugal in camellias made of wax, attributing to each one of them a name of a member from the Royal Family.<br>In 1844, he published the first horticultural newspaper in Portugal, called &#8220;Jornal Portuense&#8221;, which already identifies 38 varieties of camellias from Porto! Later, in 1870, Jos\u00e9 launched the Journal of Practical Horticulture, in which I was able to find this beautiful picture of Camellia Royal Princess, from Porto:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-07-at-22.42.31-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-07-at-22.42.31-1.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-07 at 22.42.31\" class=\"wp-image-2005\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Camellia Royal Princess. Taken from Jornal de Horticultura Pr\u00e1tica, Volume XV (1884).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-07-at-23.20.27-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-07-at-23.20.27-1.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-07 at 23.20.27\" class=\"wp-image-2006\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the twentieth century we momentarily forgot our camellias to be reminded of them in recent years. The first exhibition of camellias took place in 1984 and every year the City Hall of Porto organises an extensive program exclusively dedicated to camellias that includes activities such as exhibitions, concerts, workshops \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Save this article for later:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" height=\"487\" src=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/camellia-flower-porto-portugal.jpg\" alt=\"camellia flower porto portugal\" class=\"wp-image-29019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/camellia-flower-porto-portugal.jpg 325w, https:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/camellia-flower-porto-portugal-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" height=\"488\" src=\"http:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/history-pink-camellias-porto-1.jpg\" alt=\"history camellias porto\" class=\"wp-image-29092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/history-pink-camellias-porto-1.jpg 325w, https:\/\/portoalities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/history-pink-camellias-porto-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although camellias are originally from Southeast Asia, from countries stretching from China to Japan, in Porto they found themselves at\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[429,431,433,435],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local_culture","tag-camellia","tag-crystal-palace","tag-flower","tag-garden"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Discover the story of camellias in Porto | Blog Portoalities: Travel blog and Private tours in Porto and Douro Valley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Every year there is an Exhibition of camellias in Porto. 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