Paranhos () is a parish in the municipality 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 metropo ...
, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 44,298,
[Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE)]
Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 7.17 km².
Local landmarks include the Areosa Church, various faculties of the
University of Porto and the sprawling Hospital de São João (Saint John Hospital). The area was home to
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
club
S.C. Salgueiros
Sport Comércio e Salgueiros (), commonly known as simply Salgueiros, is a Portuguese multi-sports club from the city of Porto, in the northern region of the country.
Founded on 8 December 1911, in the parish of Paranhos, it is mostly known ...
from its foundation in 1911 until 2005.
References
Parishes of Porto
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