Oliveira de Azeméis () is a city and a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

located in Porto Metropolitan Area in Portugal. Administratively, the municipality belongs to the District of Aveiro. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 68,611,Instituto Nacional de Estatística
/ref> in an area of 161.10 km². The city itself has a population of about 20,000. Oliveira de Azeméis is located 35 km to the south of

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...

. It is less than 20 km far from the Atlantic Ocean. The municipal holiday is the Monday that follows the 2nd Sunday of August.

Facilities

Local facilities include: * Hospital de São Miguel *

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schools * Secondary schools * Basic schools * Regional

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station * Clinic centres *

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office *

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- Biblioteca Municipal Ferreira de Castro

Economy

It is an important industrial center, producing a wide variety of goods such as

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s, dairy produce, shoes, car components, springs and mattresses. Among its most well-known companies are Simoldes and Lactogal.

Transportation

It has connection by the following

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s: A1, A29 and A32; and the IC2 expressway. It is served by

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/Oporto's airport.

Sports

Its most prominent

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is the

União Desportiva Oliveirense União Desportiva Oliveirense (UDO), commonly known as Oliveirense, is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Oliveira de Azeméis, in Aveiro District. The club was founded on 25 October 1922. The main football team currently plays at the Es ...

(U.D.O.) which fields teams in football, basketball and ring hockey as well as an affiliated cycling team that holds a UCI Continental team licence, the

Kelly–Simoldes–UDO Kelly–Simoldes–UDO () is a Portuguese cycling team based in Oliveira de Azeméis, that holds a UCI Continental team licence. The cycling team is affiliated with União Desportiva Oliveirense (UDO), the largest multisports club of Oliveira d ...

(UCI team code: KSU). One other club is Futebol Clube Pinheirense (FCP), it is a club dedicated mostly to football. They have a kids school in partnership with Benfica from Lisbon.

Demographics

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 12 civil parishes ('' freguesias''): * Carregosa * Cesar *

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* Loureiro *

Macieira de Sarnes Macieira may refer to: *Macieira de Rates, village in Portugal *Macieira, Santa Catarina, municipality in Brazil *Macieira Brandy Macieira is a Portuguese brandy created by José Guilherme Macieira after he studied winemaking in the French region ...

* Nogueira do Cravo e Pindelo * Oliveira de Azeméis, Santiago de Riba-Ul, Ul, Macinhata da Seixa e Madail * Ossela * Pinheiro da Bemposta, Travanca e Palmaz * São Martinho da Gândara * São Roque * Vila de Cucujães

Cities and towns

There is one city in the municipality: Oliveira de Azeméis. The towns are * Carregosa * Cesar *

* Loureiro * Nogueira do Cravo * Pinheiro da Bemposta * Vila Chã de São Roque * Vila de Cucujães

Marian sanctuary

In the centre there is a Marian sanctuary, La-Salette. It was built in order to honor the apparitions of

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in the small village of La Salette, Isère, in France. The sanctuary contains the finger of a burglar that tried to steal some precious artifacts (one night a guard shot a burglar with his shotgun and only hit his finger). The finger lies inside an alcohol jar right in front of the chapel.

Notable people

Carlos Costa, Governor, Banco de Portugal

* Abel Pêra (1891 in Carregosa – 1975) a Portuguese actor based in Brazil. * Manuel Pêra (1894 in Carregosa – 1967) a Portuguese actor based in Brazil. Manuel Pêra, IMDb Database
retrieved 26 October 2021. * Ferreira de Castro (1898–1974) a Portuguese social realist writer and journalist. *

Julieta Gandra Julieta Gandra (1917–2007) was a Portuguese doctor who was imprisoned by the Portuguese authorities for supporting Angolan Independence. She was Amnesty International's "Prisoner of Conscience of the Year" in 1964. Early life Maria Julieta Gui ...

(1917–2007) a doctor, imprisoned for supporting the

Angolan War of Independence The Angolan War of Independence (; 1961–1974), called in Angola the ("Armed Struggle of National Liberation"), began as an uprising against forced cultivation of cotton, and it became a multi-faction struggle for the control of Portugal ...

* Carlos da Silva Costa (born 1949) an economist, Governor of the

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, 2010-2020

Sport

* Adelino Teixeira (born 1952) a Portuguese retired footballer with 322 club caps and 12 for

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* Bruno Neves (1981–2008) a Portuguese professional road racing cyclist * Cátia Azevedo (born 1994) a Portuguese 400 metres sprinter, competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics

References

External links

Town Hall official website
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