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Portugal

• Location: Located in Europe, in the far southwest.• Population: 10,600 inhabitants. (8.67 inhabitants/km2).• Capital: Lisbon.• Language: Portuguese.

Exports

• Textiles and clothing (15.7%), machinery (15.30%), wood and paper.

Writers / Poets

• Luís Vaz de Camões (Lusíadas "), Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago (Nobel Prize of Literature in 1998).

Gastronomy

• Cod dishes.

Curiosities

• In 1949 he was awarded the first Nobel Prize for medicine to a Portuguese (Egas Moniz).

• 1st participation of Portugal in the Olympics in Stockholm in 1912.

General Information

• Area - 213.45 km ²Population - 147 406 inhab. (2008)Population density - 691 inhabitants / km ²No. of parishes - 31Mayor - Alfredo Henriques

More General Information

• Region - NorthSubregion - Entre Douro e VougaDistrict - AveiroProvince - Douro Litoral Hospital – São SebastiãoMunicipal holiday – 20th January

Santa Maria da Feira

Municipal Holiday(“Fogaceiras” Day)

Santa Maria da Feira Castle

Medieval Journey

Medieval Journey

Imaginarius

Our school

EB23 Prof. Doutor Carlos Alberto Ferreira De Almeida

Patron of our school

Carlos Alberto Ferreira de Almeida

Born in the parish of Vila Maior, Santa Maria da Feira,

Professor Carlos Alberto Ferreira de Almeida (1934-1996) completed his degree in History at Faculdade de Letras do Porto. He was a

great History Professor and investigator.