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The airport around Porto opened in 1945 and was initially known as Pedras Rubras Airport, after the name for the locality where the airport is located: Pedras Rubras ("red rocks"). It is still known by this name in the region.
Aeroporto is a light rail station on the Porto Metro system in the municipality of Maia, Portugal. It was built to serve Porto Airport, and is situated immediately outside the main terminal of that airport. The station is the terminus of line E of the Metro, which provides a direct connection to the centre of the city of Porto. [1] [2]
ANAM – Aeroportos e Navegação Aérea da Madeira, S.A. Created under Portuguese Law Decreto-Lei n.º.453/91 de 11 de Dezembro, this company, which receives exclusively public funds, was established to study, plan, build and utilise the airports in the Autonomous Region of Madeira. ADA – Administração de Aeroportos, Lda.
Lisbon Airport (Aeroporto Internacional Humberto Delgado) or: Lisbon Airport (Aeroporto Internacional de Lisboa) (Lisbon/Loures) Portimão: Algarve: LPPM PRM Portimão Airport (Aeródromo Municipal de Portimão) {Penina, Alvor} Porto: Norte: LPPR OPO Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport (Aeroporto Internacional Francisco Sá Carneiro)
On 5 June 2004, the line was extended to Estádio do Dragão, Porto's largest football stadium, in time for the Euro 2004 Football championship. [9] On 3 March, 2005, Line B (red line) opened between Estádio do Dragão and Pedras Rubras. The remaining section between Pedras Rubras and Póvoa de Varzim was opened a year later in March 2006.
Porto has several institutions of higher education, the largest one being the state-managed University of Porto (Universidade do Porto), which is the second largest Portuguese university, after the University of Lisbon, with approximately 28,000 students and considered one of the 100 best Universities in Europe. [93]
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Herz, Norman (2006), Operação Alacrity: os Açores e a Guerra no Atlântico (in Portuguese), Vila do Porto (Azores), Portugal: Município de Vila do Porto, ISBN 978-989-95262-0-4 Oliveira, João Eduardo Franco de, Aeroporto de Santa Maria: 1946-1996 (in Portuguese), Aeroportos e Navegação Aérea, ANA