Oliveira de Azeméis () is a city and

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

in the Porto Metropolitan Area of Portugal. Administratively, the municipality belongs to the District of Aveiro. 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 south of

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, less than from the Atlantic Ocean. The municipal holiday is the Monday following the second Sunday of August.

Facilities

Local facilities include: * Hospital de São Miguel *

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schools * Secondary schools * Basic schools * Regional

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station * Clinic centres *

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office *

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– Biblioteca Municipal Ferreira de Castro

Economy

Oliveira de Azeméis is an important industrial center, producing a variety of goods such as injection moulds, dairy produce, shoes, car components, steel tubes and other steel materials (Ferpinta), cookware (Silampos and CELAR), springs and mattresses. Among its best-known companies are Simoldes and Lactogal.

Transport

The town has connections to the A1, A29 and A32 motorways and the IC2 expressway. It is served by Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport/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 E ...

(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 Portugal, 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 Oli ...

(UCI team code: KSU). Other names (that focus in football) include Futebol Clube Pinheirense (FCP), Sporting Clube de Bustelo (SCB), Futebol Clube Cesarense (FCC), Juventude Desportiva Carregosense (JDC), Grupo Desportivo de São Roque (GDSR), Atlético Clube de Cucujães (ACC), Real Clube Nogueirense (RCN) and Nome Futebol Clube Macieirense (FCM), with other sports such as futsal including Futsal Clube Azeméis (FCA), Pindelo Associação Recreativa e Cultural (PARC) and Grupo Cultural e Recreativo de Ossela (GCRO). They have a children's school in partnership with Benfica from Lisbon.

Demographics

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 12 civil parishes ('' freguesias''): * Carregosa * Cesar * Fajões * Loureiro * Macieira de Sarnes *

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* 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 * Carregosa * Cesar * Fajões * Loureiro * Nogueira do Cravo * Pinheiro da Bemposta * Vila Chã de São Roque * Vila de Cucujães

Marian sanctuary

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

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in the small village of La Salette, Isère, in France. The sanctuary contains the finger of a burglar who tried to steal precious artifacts one night (a guard shot the burglar with his shotgun and only hit his finger). The finger is preserved in a jar of

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in front of the chapel.

Notable people

* * Bento Carqueja (1860-1907), Director of ''O Commercio do Porto'', Professor of Agriculture and Economy, First patent in telephotography * Abel Pêra (1891 in Carregosa – 1975), Portuguese actor based in Brazil. * Manuel Pêra (1894 in Carregosa – 1967), Portuguese actor based in Brazil. Manuel Pêra, IMDb Database
retrieved 26 October 2021. * Ferreira de Castro (1898–1974) , Portuguese social realist writer and journalist. * Julieta Gandra (1917–2007), doctor, imprisoned for supporting the Angolan War of Independence * Carlos da Silva Costa (born 1949), economist, Governor of the Bank of Portugal, 2010–2020

Sport

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

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* Bruno Neves (1981–2008), Portuguese professional road racing cyclist * Cátia Azevedo (born 1994), Portuguese 400-metre sprinter, competed in the

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* João Domingues (born 1993), Portuguese professional tennis player having achieved n. 150 in the ATP ranking. He represented Portugal in the Davis Cup team from 2015 to 2019.

References

External links

Town Hall official website
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