Fontaínhas is a
Portuguese village in the civil parish of
Balazar
Balazar (or Balasar) is one of the seven parishes of the municipality of Póvoa de Varzim. The population in 2011 was 2,543,[Póvoa de Varzim
Póvoa de Varzim () is a Portugal, Portuguese city in Norte Region, Portugal, Northern Portugal and sub-region of Greater Porto, from its city centre. It sits in a sandy coastal plain, a cuspate foreland, halfway between the Minho River, Minho ...]
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It is on the N206 road at the boundary with the parish of
Rates
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The Famalicão branch of the Póvoa line reached Fontaínhas station on 7 August 1878 and by 1881 the line from Póvoa de Varzim to
Vila Nova de Famalicão
Vila Nova de Famalicão (), also known as Famalicão, is a Portuguese town in the Braga District and the sub-region of Ave (intermunicipal community), Vale do Ave. The population of ''Vila Nova'' was created in 1205 with the charter given by the K ...
was complete. On 31 December 1995 both passenger and goods traffic ceased. Work began in 2007 to resurface the line as a cycle route and footpath, and in 2021 the final section was completed. The route, the Ecopista do Ramal de Famalicão is about long.
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Villages in Portugal
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