Amadora Municipality
Amadora (), officially Amadora City (), is a city and municipality in the northwest of the Lisbon metropolitan area and 10 km from central Lisbon. The population in 2011 was 175,136, in an area of 23.78 km2 (9.2 sq mi). It is the fourth b ...
. The population in 2011 was 17,044,Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 2.51 km².
Its
patron saint
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is
Our Lady of Fatima
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Places
* Our (river), in Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany
* Our, Belgium, a village in Belgium
* Our, Jura, a commune in France
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* Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR), a governm ...
.
In the extreme south of the parish is located the first
IKEA
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store in Portugal as part of a major shopping areas of
Lisbon
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. This shopping area also extends to the parishes of Buraca and, specially,
Carnaxide
Carnaxide () is a former civil parish in the municipality of Oeiras, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Carnaxide e Queijas. The population in 2011 was 25,911, in an area of 6.51 km2.Oeiras).
Image:Alfragide.jpg, Apartment Buildings in Alfragide
Image:Alfragidetorre.jpg, A typical example of architecture of the parish
Image:Amadora - Fregueisa Alfragide.png, Location within the municipality of Amadora