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Agualva-Cacém
Agualva-Cacém () is a Portuguese city within the municipality of Sintra, in the Lisbon metropolitan area. It comprises the civil parishes of Agualva e Mira Sintra and Cacém e São Marcos, equivalent to 81,845 inhabitants of the municipalities population. History The toponym "Agualva" is derived from the Latin '' Aqua alba'', meaning white (pure) water, while "Cacém" is derived from the Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ... '' Qāsim'' (قاسم), meaning "the one who distributes". The name ''Agualva-Cacém'' belonged to a civil parish that encompassed of the municipality of Sintra. On 12 July 2001, that parish was elevated to the status of city and divided into four civil parishes, which, in 2013, were then merged into two ''unions of parishes'': União da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agualva-Cacém Railway Station
Agualva-Cacém Station () is a railway station located in the city of Agualva-Cacém, Portugal. It is served by the Sintra Line, Linha do Oeste, and Azambuja Line. It is operated by CP Lisboa, Lisbon CP and managed by Infraestruturas de Portugal. Service Regional and InterRegional services stop at Agualva-Cacém Station roughly eight times daily in each direction. Urban trains stop at Agualva-Cacém Station at approximately 15-minute intervals on weekends and off-peak periods on weekdays. During peak periods, trains stop at Agualva-Cacém Station at approximately 5-minute intervals, with some trains arriving within a minute of each other. Station layout Agualva-Cacém Station serves as the junction between the Sintra Line and the Linha do Oeste. It is on ground level. Buses operate from the east side of the station. Platforms Agualva-Cacém Station is composed of two island platforms serving four tracks. File:Estação_Ferroviária_de_Agualva-Cacém,_panorama_platafor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sintra Municipality
Sintra (, ), officially the Town of Sintra (), is a town and municipality in the Lisboa Region, Greater Lisbon region of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera. The population of the municipality in 2021 was 385,654, in an area of . Sintra is one of the most urbanized and densely populated municipalities of Portugal. A major tourism in Portugal, tourist destination famed for its picturesqueness, the municipality has several historic palaces, castles, scenic beaches, parks and gardens. The area includes the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, Sintra-Cascais Nature Park through which the Serra de Sintra, Sintra Mountains run. The historic center of the ''Vila de Sintra'' is famous for its 19th-century Romanticism, Romanticist architecture, historic estates and villas, gardens, and royal palaces and castles, which resulted in the classification of the town as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Sintra's landmarks include the medieval Castelo dos Mouros, Castle of the Moors, the romanticist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cities In Portugal
This is a list of cities in Portugal. In Portugal, a city () is an honorific term given to locations that meet several criteria, such as having a minimum number of inhabitants good infrastructure (schools, medical care, cultural and sports facilities), or have a major historical importance. The country's demographic expansion of the 1980s prompted the elevation of several towns to city status and, as of 2018, 159 locations in Portugal are considered a city. Overview In Portugal, the city is not an administrative division, therefore a city generally does not necessarily correspond to a municipality, which is the second-level local government in the country. Some entirely urban municipalities do coincide with cities, such as Lisbon, Porto, Funchal, Amadora, Entroncamento, and São João da Madeira. The municipality with the most cities is Paredes Municipality, which contains four cities. Until 1910, a location was proclaimed city by royal charter (''carta régia''), which happen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grande Lisboa
Grande Lisboa () or Greater Lisbon is a Portuguese NUTS II and III region and subregion. It was previously only a NUTS III subregion integrated in the Lisboa Region and, previously, in the Lisboa e Vale do Tejo until it was abolished at the January 2015 NUTS 3 revision. It was revived as both a NUTS 2 and 3 overlapped circumscription in the 2024 revision. It is part of the historical Estremadura Province. It includes the capital and prime city of Portugal, Lisbon (''Lisboa'' in Portuguese). It is the main economical subregion of the country. It covers 1,376 km2 and it is the most populous and most densely populated Portuguese subregion (2,042,477 inhabitants and 1,483.6 inhabitants/km2http://habitacao.cm-lisboa.pt/documentos/1362596653V6gKK1xq6Mw12JO4.pdf ). Overview In spite of getting the name Grande Lisboa, the subregion did not take the entire area of the Lisbon metropolitan area, because it does not include the municipalities on the South bank of the Tagus river e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agualva (Sintra) , Portugal
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Agualva may refer to the following parishes in Portugal: * Agualva (Praia da Vitória), in the Azores * Agualva (Sintra), Portugal *Agualva-Cacém Agualva-Cacém () is a Portuguese city within the municipality of Sintra, in the Lisbon metropolitan area. It comprises the civil parishes of Agualva e Mira Sintra and Cacém e São Marcos, equivalent to 81,845 inhabitants of the municipalities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bebé
Tiago Manuel Dias Correia (born 12 July 1990), better known by his nickname Bebé, is a professional footballer who plays as either a winger or attacking midfielder for Spanish club UD Ibiza. Born in Portugal, and a former Portuguese youth international at under-21 level, he represents the Cape Verde national team. Abandoned by his parents at a young age, Bebé grew up in a homeless shelter near Lisbon. He began his football career as an amateur with Loures, before joining Estrela da Amadora in 2009. A year later, he was signed by Vitória de Guimarães but transferred almost immediately to Manchester United for a fee of about £7 million, despite manager Alex Ferguson admitting he had never seen Bebé play. Unable to make an impression on the Manchester United first team, he spent time on loan with Turkish side Beşiktaş and back in Portugal with Rio Ave and Paços de Ferreira, before joining Benfica permanently in July 2014. After loan spells in Spain with Cór ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Lisbon
Grande Lisboa () or Greater Lisbon is a Portuguese NUTS II and III region and subregion. It was previously only a NUTS III subregion integrated in the Lisboa Region and, previously, in the Lisboa e Vale do Tejo until it was abolished at the January 2015 NUTS 3 revision. It was revived as both a NUTS 2 and 3 overlapped circumscription in the 2024 revision. It is part of the historical Estremadura Province. It includes the capital and prime city of Portugal, Lisbon (''Lisboa'' in Portuguese). It is the main economical subregion of the country. It covers 1,376 km2 and it is the most populous and most densely populated Portuguese subregion (2,042,477 inhabitants and 1,483.6 inhabitants/km2http://habitacao.cm-lisboa.pt/documentos/1362596653V6gKK1xq6Mw12JO4.pdf ). Overview In spite of getting the name Grande Lisboa, the subregion did not take the entire area of the Lisbon metropolitan area, because it does not include the municipalities on the South bank of the Tagus river es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cacém (Sintra) , a municipality the district of Setúbal, Portugal.
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Cacém may refer to: *Agualva-Cacém, a city in the municipality of Sintra, Portugal. * Cacém (Sintra), a parish in the municipality of Sintra, Portugal. *Santiago do Cacém Santiago do Cacém () is a municipality in Setúbal District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 29,749, in an area of 1059.69 km2. The present mayor is Álvaro Beijinha, elected by the Unitary Democratic Coalition. The municipal holiday ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City
A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agreed definition of the lower boundary for their size. In a narrower sense, a city can be defined as a permanent and Urban density, densely populated place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, Public utilities, utilities, land use, Manufacturing, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations, government organizations, and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving the efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Lima (footballer)
José António Ramalho Lima (born 16 October 1966) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a forward. Football career Born in Mira Sintra, Lisbon, Lima emerged through Sporting Clube de Portugal's prolific youth ranks, but would never be more than a fringe player during his seven-season spell with the main squad. In 1988–89, he appeared in a career-best – for the ''Lions'' – 17 matches as the team could only rank fourth in the league; also during that year he gained his only two caps for the Portugal national football team, being definitely released in the 1992 summer. After an unassuming year at Vitória de Guimarães, Lima moved to the lower leagues and joined Atlético Clube de Portugal. In 1997, at the age of 30, he joined another side in the Lisbon area, F.C. Alverca, helping S.L. Benfica's farm team to its first ever top level participation in the 1998–99 campaign, where the player featured rarely (six games), retiring shortly after. Immediately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patriarchate Of Lisbon
The Metropolitan Patriarchate of Lisbon () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or patriarchal archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. Its archiepiscopal see is the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. Mary Major, in Lisbon. The patriarchate also has three minor basilicas: the Basilica of Our Lady of the Martyrs and Basilica of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus in Estrela, both in Lisbon; the Basilica of Our Lady and St. Anthony in Mafra; and two World Heritage Site monasteries: the Monastery of the Hieronymites, in Lisbon, and the Monastery of Saint Mary of Alcobaça, in Alcobaça. Patriarchate today The patriarchate pastorally served, as per 2014, 1,648,885 Catholics (86% of 1,924,650 total) on 3,735 km2 in 285 parishes and 604 missions, with 543 priests (291 diocesan, 252 religious), 84 deacons, 1,505 lay religious (401 brothers, 1,104 sisters) and 54 seminarians. History The diocese of Lisbon was created in the 4th century, but it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
