São Bento railway station in Porto was designed by José Marques da Silva, whom the city removed from the project in 1909. Jorge Colaço painted the azulejo panels. The text names no client, but the railway's administrative commission and Porto's city council oversaw the project, and the Portuguese Republic owns the station. The infobox gives 1916 as the opening year. The text says building work started in 1904 and the full project took 13 years.
The article calls the style Beaux-Arts, influenced by French architecture. It has granite walls and roughly 20,000 tin-glazed azulejo tiles covering 5,930 square feet (551 square meters). The plan is three stories, symmetrical and U-shaped.
Heritage listing was authorized in 1988, and renovation began in 1992. It is the main terminus for Porto's suburban lines and connects to Porto Metro line D. The article gives no hours.
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