Oliveira de Azeméis
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Image:OAZ.png Oliveira de Azeméis is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 164.0 km² and a total population of 71,069 inhabitants. It is located 35km to the south of Portugal's second most major city, Porto, and less than 20km from the Atlantic Ocean. It is connected to the A1 motorway and the IC2 expressway and is served by Porto International Airport.
The municipality is composed of 19 parishes, and is located in the District of Aveiro.
The present Mayor is Ápio Carlo Cláudio Assunção (Social Democrat) and the President of the Municipal Assembly is Hermínio José Gonçalves (Social Democrat).
The municipal holiday is the second Monday of August.
In the center there is a marian sanctuary of some importance, La Salette. It was built in order to honor the apparitions of Virgin Mary in the small village of La Salette in France. What is very striking about this sanctuary is that it contains the finger of a burglar that tried to steal some precious artifacts (one night a guard shot a burglar with his shotgun and only hit his finger). The finger lies inside an alcohol jar right in front of the chapel.
Local facilities include:
- Hospital
- Higher education schools
- Secondary schools
- Basic schools
- Regional museum
- Camping
- Hotel
- Post Office
- Police
- Clinic centres
- Tourism office
- Library
Nearby towns:
- São João da Madeira (5km)
- Santa Maria da Feira (11km)
- Ovar (15km)
- Estarreja (15km)
- Vale de Cambra (12km)
- Lourosa (15km)
- Fiães (15km)
- Esmoriz (20km)
- Espinho (25km)
- Vila Nova de Gaia (30km)
- Porto (35km)
- Águeda (30km)
- Aveiro (35km)
It's an important industrial area, producing a wide variety of goods:
Parishes
- Carregosa
- Cesar
- Fajões
- Loureiro
- Macieira de Sarnes
- Macinhata de Seixa
- Madail
- Nogueira do Cravo
- Oliveira de Azeméis
- Ossela
- Palmaz
- Pindelo
- Pinheiro da Bemposta
- Santiago da Riba-Ul
- São Martinho da Gândara
- São Roque
- Travanca
- Ul
- Vila de Cucujães
