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Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Norte
- Metropolitan area
- Porto
- District
- Porto
- President
- Vítor Costa ( PS )
- Total
- 149.03 km (57.54 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 49 m (161 ft)
- Lowest elevation
- 0 m (0 ft)
- Density
- 542.98/km (1,406.3/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+00:00 ( WET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+01:00 ( WEST )
- Patron
- São João Baptista
- Website
- viladoconde .com /en /
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
viladoconde.com | Vila do Conde – Turismo e História
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Encyclopedic overview
Vila do Conde ( pronounced [ˈvilɐ ðu ˈkõdɨ] , locally [ˈbilɐ ðu ˈkoŋdɨ]; "the Count's Town") is a municipality in the Norte Region of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 79,533, in an area of 149.03 km. The urbanized area of Vila do Conde, which includes the parishes of Vila do Conde, Azurara and Árvore, represent 36,137 inhabitants. Vila do Conde is interlinked to the north with Póvoa de Varzim, forming a single urban agglomeration which is a part of the Porto Metropolitan Area. The town is on the Portuguese Way of the Camino de Santiago.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vila do Conde” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.