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Trams de Porto. The tramway network in the city of Porto is operated by Sociedade de Transportes Colectivos do Porto (STCP). There are three different Porto tram routes: Line 1: Passeio Alegre//Infante; Line 18: Massarelos// Carmo; Line 22: Circular Carmo//Batalha; The STCP tram fleet is housed at the Massarelos depot next to the STCP Tram Museum.
An Alfa Pendular in Santa Apolónia Station, Lisbon.. Since the late 1990s Comboios de Portugal (CP) has run the Alfa Pendular service, connecting Portugal's mainland from the north border to the Algarve at a speed of up to 220 kilometres per hour (140 mph) (in specific sections), which reduced the travel time between Porto and Lisbon by approximately 30 minutes.
The Porto Metro (Portuguese: Metro do Porto) is a light rail network in Porto, Portugal and a key part of the city's public transport system. [3] Having a semi-metro alignment, it runs underground in central Porto and above ground into the city's suburbs while using low-floor tram vehicles.
A second company, the Companhia Carris de Ferro do Porto (CCFP) (the Porto Tramways Company), was established in 1873, and it opened a line from Praça Carlos Alberto via Boavista to Foz (Cadouços) in 1874. More lines were added through the 1870s until the 1890s.
Alfa Pendular is the name of the flagship Pendolino high-speed tilting train of Portuguese state railway company CP. [1] It connects the cities of Guimarães, Braga, Porto, Aveiro, Coimbra, Santarém, Lisbon, Albufeira and Faro, among others at speeds of up to 220 km/h (135 mph).
Ria Formosa in Tavira Ria Formosa here seen southeast of Faro. Part of the system is a 170 km² protected natural area, but Ria Formosa also plays an important role in the region's economy. Beyond the tourist use the system also supports other economic activities like seafood farms (including grooved carpet shell harvesting) and the port of Faro.
At the time, the area was known as Ossonoba, and was the most important urban centre of southern Portugal and commercial port for agricultural products, fish, and minerals. [ 6 ] Between the second and eighth centuries, the city was under the domain of the Romans, then the Byzantines , and later Visigoths, before being conquered by the Arabic ...
Portimão (European Portuguese pronunciation: [puɾtiˈmɐ̃w] ⓘ) is a city and a municipality in the district of Faro, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. [1] The population in 2022 was 60,879, [2] in an area of 182.06 km 2. [3]