Leça da Palmeira
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Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
parish (freguesia
Freguesia
Freguesia is the Portuguese term for a secondary local administrative unit in Portugal and some of its former colonies, and a former secondary local administrative unit in Macau, roughly equivalent to an administrative parish. A freguesia is a subdivision of a concelho, the Portuguese synonym term...
) in the municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
of Matosinhos and part of the city with the same name. It has 5.97 km² and had 17.215 inhabitants in the 2001 census
Census
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It has a rich cultural heritage, namely Forte de Nossa Senhora Da Conceição
Forte de Nossa Senhora Da Conceição
Forte de Nossa Senhora das Neves also known as Castelo de Leça its a fort located in Matosinhos, in the Leça da Palmeira parish. This fort is very similar to the other fort in the city, Castelo Do Queijo but instead of being located on the sea side it's located a few yards distant from the local...
, Piscinas das Marés (Sea Pools developed by the well-know architect Siza Vieira), Boa Nova Tea House (also developed by Siza Vieira), Quinta da Conceição Municipal Park and other religious monuments as Corpo Santo, Santana, and Boa Nova churches.
It is home of the international Leixões
Leixões
Leixões is located 4 km to the north of Douro River mouth, in Matosinhos municipality, near the city of Porto. Leixões is one of Portugal's major seaports. Leixões Sport Club, commonly knows simply as Leixões, is Matosinhos' sports club....
seaport, the country's second largest; Petrogal, and an oil refinery
Refinery
A refinery is a production facility composed of a group of chemical engineering unit processes and unit operations refining certain materials or converting raw material into products of value.-Types of refineries:Different types of refineries are as follows:...
. In sport, the parish includes a football club, Leça FC, and a basketball club, Grupo Desportivo de Basquete de Leça
Grupo Desportivo de Basquete de Leça
Grupo Desportivo de Basquete de Leça is a Portuguese basketball club, based in Leça da Palmeira....
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