Gondomar () is 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 the east of

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

's Porto Metropolitan Area and 7 km from central

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 ...

. The population in 2011 was 168,027,Instituto Nacional de Estatística
/ref> in an area of 131.86 km². Gondomar's mayor is Marco Martins. Gondomar is well known for its

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industry, and its name can be traced, like many other toponyms of Northern Portugal, to a prominent Visigothic figure of his day, the King

Gundemar Gundemar was a Visigothic King of Hispania, Septimania and Galicia (610–612). Reign Gundemar continued a policy of amity with Clotaire II of Neustria and Theodobert II of Austrasia. To this end, he sent grand sums of money to support their cau ...

Demographics

Cities and towns

Cities are: * Gondomar (1991) *

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(1995) * Valbom (2005)

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 7 civil parishes ('' freguesias''): * Baguim do Monte * Fânzeres e São Pedro da Cova * Foz do Sousa e Covelo * Lomba * Melres e Medas *

* Gondomar (São Cosme), Valbom e Jovim

Sports

The town has one

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team called Gondomar who currently play in the Campeonato de Portugal, the third tier of Portuguese football.

Notable people

* João de Sahagún (1668–1730) a Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of

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, 1709–1730 * Isabel Santos (born 1968 in Valbom) a Portuguese politician and

Member of the European Parliament A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...

since 2019.

Sport

* Pedro Barbosa (born 1970) a Portuguese retired footballer with 422 club caps and 22 for

* Rómulo Filipe Cunha da Silva (born 1976), known as ''Rómulo'', a Portuguese former footballer with 506 club caps * Daniel Materazzi (born 1985) a footballer with over 320 club caps * Ricardo Filipe da Silva Braga (born 1985) known as ''Ricardinho'' a Portuguese futsal player who has played over 300 games and 160 for

André Castro André Castro Pereira (born 2 April 1988), known as Castro, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for S.C. Braga as a central midfielder. Formed at Porto, where he was mainly loaned out, he spent most of his career in Turkey, maki ...

(born 1988), known as ''Castro,'' a Portuguese footballer with over 360 club caps

References

External links

* http://www.cm-gondomar.pt/ Cities in Portugal Municipalities of Porto District Populated places in Porto District {{porto-geo-stub