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The Port of Leixões (Portuguese: Porto de Leixões, pronounced [lɐjˈʃõjʃ]) is one of Portugal's major seaports, located 4 km north of the mouth of the Douro River, in Matosinhos municipality, near the city of Porto. Leixões Sport Club, commonly known simply as Leixões, is Matosinhos' sports club.
Porto Leixões Cruise Terminal is a purpose built terminal for ocean-going passenger ships built by the Port Authority of Douro, Porto, Portugal. [1] The terminal was opened on the 23 July 2015. Description
Port of Leixoes: Porto District [4] [5] Port of Lisbon: Lisbon District [6] Port of Setúbal Setúbal District [7] Port of Figueira da Foz Coimbra District [8] Port of Aveiro Aveiro District [9] Port of Viana do Castelo Viana do Castelo District [10] Madeira; Port of Caniçal Madeira Island [11] Azores; Port of Praia da Vitória Praia da ...
In 2002, Leixões beat Braga 3–1 away to secure a place in the Taça de Portugal final (the first and only third division club to play a final) against Sporting CP. The club, however, lost 1–0, but nonetheless secured a spot in the following season's UEFA Cup and Portuguese Supercup after Sporting had also finished as national champions for ...
Linha de Leixões, also known as Linha de Cintura do Porto, is a railway line in Portugal which connects the railway stations of Contumil in Porto on the Linha do Minho and Leixões, in Matosinhos, servicing the Port of Leixões.
The Dom Luís I Bridge (Ponte de Dom Luís I) is a double-deck metal arch bridge that spans the River Douro between Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia. Built in 1886, its 172 metres (564 ft) span was then the longest of its type in the world.
The Porto metropolitan area is the second largest metropolitan area of Portugal, with about 1.7 million people. It groups the larger Porto Urban Area, the second largest in the country, assembled by the municipalities of Porto, Matosinhos, Vila Nova de Gaia, Gondomar, Valongo and Maia. It also includes three smaller urban areas: Póvoa de ...
The Ramal de Matosinhos or Matosinhos branch railway, originally called the Ramal de Leixões, was a metre-gauge railway line which connected the stations of Senhora da Hora, on the Linha do Porto à Póvoa e Famalicão, to the Port of Leixões, in Portugal. It was built in 1884 to connect the port to the São Gens quarry.