Cedofeita () is a former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

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 metropol ...

, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish

Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória is a civil parish in the municipality of Porto, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso Santo Ildefonso () is a former civi ...

. The population in 2011 was 22,077, in an area of .Eurostat
Local landmarks include the

Church of Cedofeita Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Chri ...

(dedicated to Saint Martin), the Mouzinho de Albuquerque

Plaza A town square (or square, plaza, public square, city square, urban square, or ''piazza'') is an open public space, commonly found in the heart of a traditional town but not necessarily a true geometric square, used for community gatherings. ...

, the Oliveira's Fountain, several chapels and modern architecture buildings. Casa da Pedra is located in Cedofeita.

People

*The film director

Manoel de Oliveira Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira (; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about Wo ...

was born in Cedofeita in 1908. *

Cecília Meireles Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles (7 November 1901 – 9 November 1964) was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the Portuguese l ...

a member of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal since 2009, representing the

CDS – People's Party The CDS – People's Party ( pt, CDS – Partido Popular, derived from ''Centro Democrático e Social – Partido Popular'', CDS–PP)

(CDS-PP), and a former Secretary of State for Tourism, was born in Cedofeita in 1977

References

Former parishes of Porto {{porto-geo-stub