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The recipient firms of that support are the Lisbon Metro (548 million euros), the Porto Metro (315 million euros), REFER, whose administrator in the time when those contracts were approved is the former Finance Minister of Portugal, Maria Luís Albuquerque (20 million euros) and Estradas de Portugal (15 million euros).
Porto was also important during the Suebian and Visigothic times, and a center for the expansion of Christianity during that period. [23] Porto Cathedral, Sé do Porto, built in the 12th century, with Baroque and 20th-century modifications. Porto fell under Muslim rule between 714 to 716, following the Umayyad conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom ...
In the 1990s many motorways were opened. Shown is the A28 motorway in the Grande Porto subregion. Portugal experienced a strong recovery in a few decades after the leftist turmoil of 1974, the ultimate loss of its overseas empire in 1975, and the adhesion to the European Economic Community in 1986.
Busiest routes from Porto Airport (2019) [113] Rank City, airport Passengers % change Top carriers 1 Lisbon: 1,010,696 10.9% TAP Air Portugal 2 Madrid: 969,724 28.1% Air Europa, Iberia, Ryanair 3 Paris–Orly: 956,886 4.8% TAP Air Portugal, Transavia, Vueling 4 Geneva: 693,892 0.7% EasyJet, Swiss International Air Lines 5 Barcelona: 692,305 16.9%
headquarters and restaurant, Associação Empresarial de Portugal, in Porto. The Associação Empresarial de Portugal (AEP) (Portuguese Business Association) is a Portuguese chamber of commerce, based in Porto, Portugal and founded in 1849. Its first statutes, however, date from 1838.
During many decades it was the only university in Portugal, since its foundation in 1290 until 1559 (a university in Évora operated between 1559 and 1759), and again between 1759 and 1911 (University of Lisbon and University of Porto were created in 1911). The long history and past predominance of the University of Coimbra made it an important ...
The International Business Center of Madeira (IBCM) or Madeira International Business Centre (MIBC), formally known as the Madeira Free Trade Zone, is a set of tax benefits authorised by Decree-Law 500/80 in 1980, legislated [1] [2] in 1986, and amended throughout the years by the Portuguese government to favor the Autonomous Region of Madeira.