Oliveira de Azeméis () is a city and a

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located in

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in Portugal. Administratively, the municipality belongs to the

District of Aveiro Aveiro District ( pt, Distrito de Aveiro, or ) is located in the central coastal region of Portugal. The capital of the district is the city of Aveiro, which also serves as the seat of Aveiro Municipality. Aveiro District is bordered by the Po ...

. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 68,611,Instituto Nacional de Estatística
/ref> in an area of 161.10 km². The city itself has a population of about 20,000. Oliveira de Azeméis is located 35 km to the south of

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. It is less than 20 km far from the Atlantic Ocean. The municipal holiday is the Monday that follows the 2nd Sunday of August.

Facilities

Local facilities include: * Hospital de São Miguel *

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schools *

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* Basic schools * Regional

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Hotel A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a ref ...

Post Office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ...

Police The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and t ...

station * Clinic centres *

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office *

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- Biblioteca Municipal Ferreira de Castro

Economy

It is an important industrial center, producing a wide variety of goods such as

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s, dairy produce, shoes, car components, springs and mattresses. Among its most well-known companies are Simoldes and

Lactogal Lactogal is a Portuguese food products company focused on dairy products, milk, fruit juice and mineral water. It is headquartered in Porto and is placed among the twenty largest agro-food European companies. It has major factories in Oliveira ...

Transportation

It has connection by the following

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s: A1, A29 and A32; and the IC2 expressway. It is served by

Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport or simply Porto Airport (formerly ''Pedras Rubras Airport'') is an international airport near Porto (Oporto), Portugal. It is located northwest of the Clérigos Tower in the centre of Porto, in the municipalitie ...

/Oporto's airport.

Sports

Its most prominent

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is the

União Desportiva Oliveirense União Desportiva Oliveirense (UDO), commonly known as Oliveirense, is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Oliveira de Azeméis, in Aveiro District. The club was founded on 25 October 1922. The main football team currently plays at the Es ...

(U.D.O.) which fields teams in football, basketball and ring hockey as well as an affiliated cycling team that holds a UCI Continental team licence, the

Kelly–Simoldes–UDO Kelly–Simoldes–UDO () is a Portuguese cycling team based in Oliveira de Azeméis, that holds a UCI Continental team licence. The cycling team is affiliated with União Desportiva Oliveirense (UDO), the largest multisports club of Oliveira de ...

(UCI team code: KSU). One other club is Futebol Clube Pinheirense (FCP), it is a club dedicated mostly to football. They have a kids school in partnership with Benfica from Lisbon.

Demographics

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 12 civil parishes (''

freguesias ''Freguesia'' (), usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. It is also the designation for local government jurisdictions in the former Port ...

''): *

Carregosa Carregosa is a civil parish in the municipality of Oliveira de Azeméis Oliveira de Azeméis () is a city and a municipality located in Porto Metropolitan Area in Portugal. Administratively, the municipality belongs to the District of Aveiro. T ...

* Cesar *

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* Loureiro *

Macieira de Sarnes Macieira may refer to: *Macieira de Rates, village in Portugal *Macieira, Santa Catarina, municipality in Brazil *Macieira Brandy Macieira is a Portuguese brandy created by José Guilherme Macieira after he studied winemaking in the French region ...

* Nogueira do Cravo e Pindelo * Oliveira de Azeméis, Santiago de Riba-Ul, Ul, Macinhata da Seixa e Madail * Ossela * Pinheiro da Bemposta, Travanca e Palmaz * São Martinho da Gândara * São Roque * Vila de Cucujães

Cities and towns

There is one city in the municipality: Oliveira de Azeméis. The towns are *

* Cesar *

* Loureiro *

Nogueira do Cravo Nogueira, Galician and Portuguese for walnut tree, may refer to: People with the surname * Antônio Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira (born 1976), Brazilian MMA fighter * Antônio ''Rogério'' Nogueira, the "Minotouro" (born 1976), Brazilian MMA fig ...

Pinheiro da Bemposta Pinheiro may refer to: People Footballers * Alessandro Pinheiro Martins (1983-2005), Brazilian footballer * Carlos Alberto Souto Pinheiro Júnior (born 1984), Brazilian footballer * Erin Pinheiro (born 1997), Capeverdian footballer * Grazielle ...

* Vila Chã de São Roque * Vila de Cucujães

Marian sanctuary

In the centre there is a Marian sanctuary, La-Salette. It was built in order to honor the apparitions of

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in the small village of

La Salette, Isère La Salette-Fallavaux () is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. The sanctuary of Our Lady of La Salette in the mountains above the village is a well-known pilgrimage site devoted to an 1846 Marian apparition A Marian ...

, in France. The sanctuary contains the finger of a burglar that tried to steal some precious artifacts (one night a guard shot a burglar with his

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and only hit his finger). The finger lies inside an

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jar right in front of the chapel.

Notable people

Carlos Costa, Governor, Banco de Portugal

* Abel Pêra (1891 in Carregosa – 1975) a Portuguese actor based in Brazil. * Manuel Pêra (1894 in Carregosa – 1967) a Portuguese actor based in Brazil. Manuel Pêra, IMDb Database
retrieved 26 October 2021. * Ferreira de Castro (1898–1974) a Portuguese

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writer and journalist. *

Julieta Gandra Julieta Gandra (1917–2007) was a Portuguese doctor who was imprisoned by the Portuguese authorities for supporting Angolan Independence. She was Amnesty International's "Prisoner of Conscience of the Year" in 1964. Early life Maria Julieta Gui ...

(1917–2007) a doctor, imprisoned for supporting the

Angolan War of Independence The Angolan War of Independence (; 1961–1974), called in Angola the ("Armed Struggle of National Liberation"), began as an uprising against forced cultivation of cotton, and it became a multi-faction struggle for the control of Portugal ...

* Carlos da Silva Costa (born 1949) an economist, Governor of the

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, 2010-2020

Sport

* Adelino Teixeira (born 1952) a Portuguese retired footballer with 322 club caps and 12 for

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

* Bruno Neves (1981–2008) a Portuguese professional road racing cyclist *

Cátia Azevedo Cátia Isabel da Silva Azevedo (born 9 March 1994) is a Portuguese sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. She won two gold medals at the 2018 Ibero-American Championships. Her personal bests in the event are 50.59 seconds outdoors (Huelva ...

(born 1994) a Portuguese 400 metres sprinter, competed in the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

References

External links

Town Hall official website
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