Oct '24 • 🇵🇹 Language & Culture 🇵🇹
What's the Storey with Portuguese House Numbers?
Have you been confused and confounded by house and apartment numbering in Portugal, here's some help ... maybe?
Have you been confused by the Portuguese house numbering system? Especially when it comes to apartments? Me too!
Here's a guide, especially useful when you're tracking down city locations and AirBnBs.
In buildings with only two corridors, all the apartments are marked as Esq. (Esquerdo = Left) or Dto. (Direito = Right). So we have C/V Esq. (Underground Floor Left), R/C Esq. (Ground Floor Left), 1º. Esq (1st Floor Left), etc.; and C/V Dto. (Underground Floor Right), R/C Dto. (Ground Floor Right) 1º. Dto. (1st Floor Right), etc.
Got it? Now try this...
Buildings with more than two apartments per floor, are marked with letters, clockwise within each deck. So apartment 8º-D (not 8D) means the 8th floor (hence the character "º" meaning ordinal number), apartment D (counting in clockwise direction, for those who are in the floor entrance). But a very common form for buildings with three apartments per floor is, Esq.-Frt./Fte. (Frente, en: Front - for the apartment located between left and right).
Yikes!
Basically, you need to learn:
- Esquerdo = Left
- Direito = Right
- C/V = Underground Floor
- R/C = Ground Floor
- And 1º = 1st Floor etc.
They add: "These universal rules simplify finding an apartment in a building, particularly for blind people, who do not need to ask where a given apartment is."
UPDATE: (Sometimes, especially in the country) the house number is literally the distance in meters from a given point!
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