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Matosinhos
Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal () is a city and a municipality in the northern Porto district of Portugal, bordered in the south by the city of Porto (8 km from the city centre). The population in 2011 was 175,478, and covered an area of approximately . The urban centre, the city proper, had a population of 45,703 in 2001. History The oldest vestige of human settlement in this territory extend back thousands of years and include instruments and Paleolithic artefacts, collected along the old beaches (specifically Boa Nova and Almeiriga). The settlement of the land began sometime 5000 years ago, during the Neolithic, as evidenced from various funeral monuments and dolmens sporadically situated in Lavra, Perafita, Leça do Balio, Santa Cruz do Bispo, Guifões and São Gens. At the end of the Bronze Age, much like most of the northwest peninsula, settlements expanded into proto-urban agglomerations at high altitudes ( castros), associated with a culture with specific character ...
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Castro Of Monte Castelo
The Castro of Monte Castelo ( pt, Povoado fortificado do Monte Castelo de Guifões/Monte Castelo) is a Calcolithic fortified settlement, situated in the civil parish of Custóias, Leça do Balio e Guifões, in the municipality of Matosinhos in the northern Portuguese district of Porto The District of Porto ( pt, Distrito do Porto ) is located on the north-west coast of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Porto, the second largest city in the country. It is bordered by the Aveiro and Viseu districts to the south, .... History The oldest archeological artefacts were encountered from 900 B.C. Evidence suggests that the Castro was inhabited between 5 B.C. and the 5th century. During the late Middle Age, the locale was re-occupied with the construction of a small castle. Between the 10th and 11th century, the local was referenced in the documentation as ''castrum quiffiones''. In 1878, there were archaeological excavations under the direction of Francisco Martins ...
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Luísa Salgueiro
Luísa Salgueiro (born January 2 1968) is a Portuguese politician and legal consultant. Between 2005 and 2017, she was a Deputy in the Assembly of the Republic, representing the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) in the Porto constituency. At the end of 2017 she resigned in order to take up the role of mayor of Matosinhos in the Porto District, the first woman to hold this position. Career Luísa Maria Neves Salgueiro was born in Matosinhos on 2 January 1968. After obtaining a Law Degree from the Catholic University of Portugal she went on to do postgraduate studies in Environmental Law at the Lusíada University in Lisbon and also studied consumer law at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium. She worked as a legal advisor to the Porto City Council and also worked with DECO, a consumer-protection organization. She was also a member of the Matosinhos Youth Advisory Council, and it was this activity that led to her involvement in local politics. In 1997 she became a counci ...
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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 metropolitan area, with an estimated population of just 231,800 people in a municipality with only 41.42 km2. Porto's metropolitan area has around 1.7 million people (2021) in an area of ,Demographia: World Urban Areas
March 2010
making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a global city with a Gamma + rating from the
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