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Alfragide. / 38.734; -9.218. Alfragide ( Portuguese pronunciation: [alfɾɐˈʒiðɨ]) is a parish in Amadora Municipality. The population in 2011 was 17,044, [1] in an area of 2.51 km². [2] Its patron saint is Our Lady of Fatima . In the extreme south of the parish is located the first IKEA store in Portugal as part of a major shopping areas ...
Inter IKEA Systems B.V., [ 6][ 7] trading as IKEA ( / aɪˈkiːə / eye-KEE-ə, Swedish: [ɪˈkêːa] ), is a Swedish multinational conglomerate that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, kitchen appliances, decoration, home accessories, and various other goods and home services. Started in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad and currently legally ...
Portugal 2004 Alfragide (near Lisbon) 5 Second store opened on July 31, 2007, in Matosinhos, with 36,000 square metres (390,000 sq ft), [58] and third store opened on 25 May 2010, in Frielas, Loures, the largest store on the Iberian Peninsula with 39,000 square metres (420,000 sq ft).
[43] [44] Portugal is home to several world class universities and business schools that have been contributing to the creation of a number of highly renowned international managers [45] and are attracting an increasing number of foreign students. [46] Portugal has the highest emigration rate as a proportion of population in the European Union.
The next list is a list of the main cargo ports in Portugal, also including ports located in the Azores and Madeira islands. These ports are included in APP – Associação dos Portos de Portugal , a non-profit association with the objective of exchanging information and debates, contributing to the modernization of the national system of ...
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.
The 25 most and the 25 least populated municipalities of Portugal. The metropolitan areas of Lisbon, Porto and Minho are visible. As of 2023, Portugal had two significant agglomerations: the political metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto – Grande Área Metropolitana de Lisboa (3.0 million) and Grande Área Metropolitana do Porto (1.8 ...
The Porto Metro ( Portuguese: Metro do Porto) is a light rail network in Porto, Portugal and a key part of the city's public transport system. [ 3] Having a semi-metro alignment; it runs underground in central Porto and above ground into the city's suburbs while using low-floor tram vehicles. [ 4] The first parts of the system have been in ...