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Vitória S.C. (water Polo)
Vitória S.C., Vitória Sport Clube is a Portugal, Portuguese sports club in the city of Guimarães, where different sports are practiced. This article is about its semi-professional Water polo, water polo section, whose senior men's team competes in the Portuguese Waterpolo First Division, Portuguese Waterpolo League, the highest level of the sport in Portugal. Vitória Waterpolo, as it is also known, has been using the Guimarães Sports City, Guimarães Municipal Swimming Pool Complex as its home since January 2022, as the Vitória Swimming Pools at the academy became degraded, leading to their abandonment, after the Guimarães City Council assumed responsibility for their management in the 1990s. In fact, the club was forced to move its operations to the Guimarães Volunteer Firefighters' Swimming Pools until December 2021, the year in which all activities were closed due to the deficient conditions of its infrastructure. History Vitória Water Polo team, founded in 2003, bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Waterpolo First Division
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Guimarães Sports City
Guimarães () is a city and municipality located in northern Portugal, in the district of Braga. Its historic town centre has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001, in recognition for being an "exceptionally well-preserved and authentic example of the evolution of a medieval settlement into a modern town" in Europe. The Nicolinas are the city's main festivities. Guimarães is referred as the capital of the Ave Subregion (one of the most industrialised subregions in the country), and located in the historical Minho Province. The municipality has a population of 156,830 inhabitants according to the most recent data of 2021 in an area of . The current mayor is Domingos Bragança, of the Socialist Party. Guimarães, along with Maribor, Slovenia, was the European Capital of Culture in 2012. Guimarães also received the 2026 European Green Capital Award. The city was settled in the 9th century, at which time it was called ''Vimaranes''. This name might have had its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
