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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 ...
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.
In 1961, they won their only Taça de Portugal, defeating Porto 2–0. [3] This qualified Leixões to the 1961–62 European Cup Winners' Cup , in which they reached the quarter-finals before losing 4–2 on aggregate to East German side Motor Jena . [ 3 ]
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.
During the time of the explosions, the ship began to sink, prompting survivors to jump into the water, the tugboat Monte de Luz assisted by rescuing survivors that were nearby. [4] The Jakob Maersk oil spill was the second largest spill at the time which occurred in the second largest city in Portugal.