São Félix da Marinha (also known as São Fábio da Sardinha) is a Portuguese

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

and a

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia, in the district 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 ...

, in Northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 12,706, in an area of 7.93 km².Eurostat
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Praia da Granja Praia da Granja is a FEE Blue Flag beach located in the Northwest of Portugal, and belongs to the Vila Nova de Gaia municipality, Porto District. This place is also located in the town of São Félix da Marinha . The northern boundary of the be ...

, a seaside resort beach famed by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, a Portuguese writer and poet who spent part of her childhood there. The local beach and the sea provided inspiration for the maritime themes on her writings. The town of São Félix da Marinha is located south of the city of Gaia and just north of the resort seaside city of Espinho. Casa na praia da Granja

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Freguesias of Vila Nova de Gaia Towns in Portugal {{porto-geo-stub