Maia, Portugal

Coordinates: 41°14′N 8°37′W / 41.233°N 8.617°W / 41.233; -8.617
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Maia
Municipality
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Maia (Portuguese pronunciation:

Norte Region, Portugal. It is located 11 km north of central Porto. The population in 2011 was 135,306,[1] in an area of 82.99 km2 (32.04 sq mi).[2] There is one city (Cidade da Maia
) and three towns (Moreira, Castêlo da Maia and Águas Santas) in the municipality.

History

The area of the current municipality (

Portuguese caravels. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the King Manuel I of Portugal
granted the charter, which provided the rent to be paid to the donee Reguengos of Maia, and regulated how to carry out punishments and courts. Between 1700 and 1836, the county was composed of 44 parishes and encompassed the entire range between the sea and the Leça and Ave rivers. With administrative reforms initiated in 1836, Maia became a separate municipality, but reduced both in area and number of parishes. In 1857, the municipality of Maia was no more, it was then restored in 1868. Maia municipality was crossed in 1809 by the
Pedro IV of Portugal
, it was the scene of bloody battles between the absolutist and the liberal factions.

Economy

Visconde de Barreiros Avenue, Maia

The Maia municipality is one of the most industrialized in the

CEIIA - Centro para a Excelência e Inovação na Indústria Automóvel (auto industry innovation center), is located in TECMAIA (Parque de Ciência e Tecnologia da Maia complex), a science park situated in the Maia Industrial Zone.[4] Prozis, a Portuguese multinational sports nutrition company, has a major research and development center in Maia.[5]

Nossa Senhora do Ó Church

Education

Monument to the People of Maia

Maia has a comprehensive network of

private institution of higher education awarding degrees in fields ranging from psychology to communication sciences to physical education & sports to accountancy to information systems & software. In addition, Maia's population is served by the major higher education institutions located in the neighbouring municipality of Porto, including the University of Porto
.

Transportation

The Porto International Airport,

Metro do Porto
(Porto's Metro).

Porto Metro
next to Maia's Forum.
Maia's City Hall Lidador Tower

International relations

Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Portugal

The following places are

sister cities
to Maia:

Sports

Maia is the hometown of two important sports organizations: the football club

FC Maia, and the cycling team União Ciclista da Maia
.

Notable people

Teixeira dos Santos, 2009

Sport

Bruno Fernandes, 2018

Parishes

Maia Municipality and its parishes.

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 10 civil parishes (

freguesias):[6]

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maia (Porto).
  1. ^ Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  2. ^ "Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país". Archived from the original on 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
  3. ^ Ferbar
  4. ^ CEIIA
  5. ^ Redação (2018-09-20). "Prozis: "Estamos a recrutar 30 pessoas por mês"". O Minho (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-02-04.
  6. ^ Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 66" (pdf) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 24 July 2014.
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