The São Bento Train Station (Estação de São Bento), in the centre of the city, was inaugurated in 1916. But the first train has arrived in 1896. The name of the station derives from a Benedictine monastery built on this spot in the 16th century. The monastery fell victim of a fire in 1783, was later rebuilt, but was in a grave state of disrepair at the end of the 19th century. In the context of an expansion of the railway system in Portugal, King Carlos I laid the first stone of the station in 1900. The project was designed by the architect José Marques da Silva. The most notable aspect of São Bento Station are the large and magnificent tile panels in the vestible. The tiles number 20 thousand, date from 1905-1916 and are the work of Jorge Colaço, the most important azulejo painter of the time. The panels depict landscapes, ethnographic scenes as well as historical events like the meeting of knight Egas Moniz and Alfonso VII of León (12th century), the arrival of King João I and Filipa de Lencastre in Porto (1387) and the Conquest of Ceuta (1415).