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Mozelos is a
Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...
town and a parish, located in the city of
Santa Maria da Feira Santa Maria da Feira () is a city and a municipality in Aveiro District in Portugal, 23 km from central Porto. The population in 2011 was 139,309,Eurostat
/ref> Its zip code is 4535. Mozelos is located 8 km from the city of Espinho and around 20 km from
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 district capital Aveiro is approximately 50 km from the town. In 1097, the village was known as Moazellus. They still have a Roman road nearby the church. It declared itself a town on June 24, 1989, and it celebrates the transition to a town every June 24. It is the place where
Américo Amorim Américo Ferreira Amorim (21 July 1934 – 13 July 2017) was a Portuguese billionaire businessman, and a 50% owner of Corticeira Amorim, founded by his grandfather. He was the richest person in Portugal at the time of his death with a fortune est ...
lived for some years.


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Freguesias of Santa Maria da Feira Towns in Portugal {{Aveiro-geo-stub