municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Greater Porto Grande Porto () or Greater Porto is a former Portuguese NUTS3 subregion, integrating the NUTS2 region of Norte, in Portugal. It was abolished at the January 2015 NUTS 3 revision. It corresponded to 11 municipalities out of 16, the other 5 in ...

Metropolitan Area of Porto The Porto Metropolitan Area ( pt, Área Metropolitana do Porto; abbreviated as AMP) is a metropolitan area in northern Portugal centered on the City of Porto, Portugal's second largest city.Fernanda Paula Oliveira (2009), The metropolitan area, ...

Santa Maria da Feira Municipality 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,Instituto Nacional de Estatística
/ref> in an area of 21.06 km². The current Mayor is Miguel Reis, elected by the PS. It is a beach resort and a zone of legal gambling with a

casino A casino is a facility for certain types of gambling. Casinos are often built near or combined with hotels, resorts, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships, and other tourist attractions. Some casinos are also known for hosting live entertai ...

- ''Casino Solverde''. Its

fair A fair (archaic: faire or fayre) is a gathering of people for a variety of entertainment or commercial activities. Fairs are typically temporary with scheduled times lasting from an afternoon to several weeks. Types Variations of fairs incl ...

- ''Feira de Espinho'', having been first organised in 1894, is well known in Portugal. The city is home to ''CINANIMA - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Animação'', an international animation festival, and
FEST - New Directors New Films Festival
', an international film festival. The municipal holiday is June 16.

Sports

Volleyball The city, known as the volleyball capital in Portugal, is the home of nine Portuguese sports clubs: Novasemente/Cavalinho, Sporting Clube de Silvalde, Associação Desportiva de Anta, Clube de Voleibol de Espinho,

Sporting Clube de Espinho Sporting Clube de Espinho, also known as Sporting de Espinho, is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Espinho in the Aveiro district. Besides football, the club has volleyball and handball departments that usually compete in the major Port ...

, Associação Académica de Espinho, Academia de Ténis de Espinho, Clube de Ténis de Espinho and Associação Desportiva Rio Largo.

Sporting Clube de Espinho Sporting Clube de Espinho, also known as Sporting de Espinho, is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Espinho in the Aveiro district. Besides football, the club has volleyball and handball departments that usually compete in the major Port ...

and Associação Académica de Espinho are regular presences in the

Portuguese Volleyball First Division The Portuguese Volleyball First Division (Portuguese: ''Campeonato Nacional de Voleibol – I Divisão'') is the top men's volleyball league in Portugal. The competition, which is organised by the Portuguese Volleyball Federation, was called Honor ...

. The first one is the Portuguese team with more titles (including a

CEV Cup The CEV Cup is the second tier official competition for men's Volleyball clubs of Europe. The competition takes place every year. Until 2000, it was the CEV Cup Winners' Cup. In 2000 it was renamed CEV Top Teams Cup and in 2007 it was renamed CE ...

, formerly known as CEV Top Teams Cup) and the second one was once national champion. Football

Sporting Clube de Espinho Sporting Clube de Espinho, also known as Sporting de Espinho, is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Espinho in the Aveiro district. Besides football, the club has volleyball and handball departments that usually compete in the major Port ...

(Os Tigres da Costa Verde) plays in Campeonato Nacional de Seniores, the third football championship in Portugal. Former Portugal national football team player

Fernando Couto Fernando Manuel Silva Couto (; born 2 August 1969) is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a centre back. During a 21-year professional career, he played in a number of top clubs in Portugal, Spain and Italy (12 seasons in the latter ...

,

Olympiacos Olympiacós Sýndesmos Filáthlon Peiraiós ( el, Ολυμπιακός Σύνδεσμος Φιλάθλων Πειραιώς, Olympic Club of Fans of Piraeus) is a major multi-sport club based in Piraeus, Greece. Olympiacos is parent to a number ...

coach Vítor Pereira, the olympic medalist

António Leitão António Carlos Carvalho Nogueira Leitão OIH (22 July 1960 – 18 March 2012) was a Portuguese athlete who mainly competed in the long distance events. Career Born in Espinho, Leitão competed for Portugal at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in ...

and volleyball players, such as

Miguel Maia Luis Miguel Barbosa Maia (born April 23, 1971 in Paranhos) is a beach volleyball player from Portugal, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1996. He ended up in fourth place in Atlanta (1996) an ...

and João Brenha, were born in Espinho. Beach Volleyball The city hosted th
2017 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour
between the 28th and 30 July. Espinho also hosted the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour in 2019, between the 16th and 21 July. Beach Soccer The city hosted the 2015 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, between the 9th and 19 July. Surf Surf event Espinho Surf Destination is an annual event held in Espinho, organized by the

World Surf League The World Surf League (WSL) is the governing body for professional surfers and is dedicated to showcasing the world's best talent in a variety of progressive formats. The World Surf League was originally known as the International Professional ...

. Golf The oldest golf club in Portugal and Spain, Oporto Golf Club, is also located in Espinho.

Gallery

File:Igreja_Matriz_de_Espinho.JPG, Main Church in Espinho File:Plataforma de passageiros na Apeadeiro de Espinho, 2008.11.01.jpg, Train station File:Espinhoplaya.JPG, Espinho's seafront File:Espinho_Pavilh%C3%A3o_Multiusos_NW.jpg, Major pavilion in Espinho

Demographics

Espinho is also home to a significant Madeiran immigrant community.

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 4 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 ...

''): * Anta e Guetim * Espinho * Paramos * Silvalde

Cities and towns

* Espinho (city) * Silvalde (town) * Anta (town) * Paramos (town) * Guetim (town) * Esmojães (town)

Notable people

Politics

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Carlos Guimarães Pinto Carlos Manuel Guimarães Oliveira Pinto, better known as Carlos Guimarães Pinto (born in Espinho, Portugal, in 1983), is a Portuguese economist, author, university professor, think tank executive, blogger and politician. A prominent member of t ...

(born in Espinho, Portugal, in 1983), a Portuguese economist, author, university professor, think tank executive, blogger and politician. A prominent member of the

Liberal Initiative The Liberal Initiative ( pt, Iniciativa Liberal, , IL) is a liberal political party in Portugal currently led by João Cotrim de Figueiredo. In 2019, its debut year at the Portuguese legislative elections, the party won one seat in the Portugu ...

party.

Sport

* António Jesus (1955–2010), known as ''Jesus'', was a football goalkeeper with 383 club caps and 7 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 ...

*

António Leitão António Carlos Carvalho Nogueira Leitão OIH (22 July 1960 – 18 March 2012) was a Portuguese athlete who mainly competed in the long distance events. Career Born in Espinho, Leitão competed for Portugal at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in ...

(1960–2012) a Portuguese long distance athlete; bronze medallist in the men's 5000 metres at the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon ...

*

Jaime Alves Jaime Alves Magalhães (28 March 1965 – 21 September 2020), known as Alves, was a Portuguese footballer who played as a midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defe ...

(1965–2020), known as ''Alves'', was a Portuguese footballer with 271 club caps and 3 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 ...

*

Fernando Couto Fernando Manuel Silva Couto (; born 2 August 1969) is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a centre back. During a 21-year professional career, he played in a number of top clubs in Portugal, Spain and Italy (12 seasons in the latter ...

(born 1969) a Portuguese former footballer with 438 club caps and 110 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 ...

* Filipe Gonçalves (born 1984) a Portuguese footballer with over 420 club caps * João Carlos Dias Correia (born 1985) known as ''Carlitos'', is a Portuguese footballer with almost 400 club caps *

Fábio Espinho Fábio Ricardo Gomes Fonseca (born 18 August 1985), commonly known as Espinho, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for C.D. Feirense as a central midfielder. Club career Espinho was born in Espinho. A product of FC Porto's youth ...

(born 1985) known as ''Espinho'', is a Portuguese footballer with over 400 club caps

References

External links

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Photos from Espinho

Espinho City Official Website
{{Authority control Municipalities of Aveiro District