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The Alfragide Towers ( Portuguese: Torres de Alfragide) are a set of residential buildings in Alfragide, Amadora, Portugal. The complex consists of three residential towers and a shopping centre at ground level, connecting the three buildings. It also contains an underground car park and a complex of swimming pools, currently unused.
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 of Lisbon.
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).
Pliny mentions certain Purple Islands, the position of which with reference to the Fortunate Islands or Canaries might seem to indicate Madeira islands. Plutarch (Sertorius, 75 AD) referring to the military commander Quintus Sertorius (d. 72 BC), relates that after his return to Cádiz, "he met seamen recently arrived from Atlantic islands, two in number, divided from one another only by a ...
Madeira Island. / 32.65111°N 16.90972°W / 32.65111; -16.90972. Madeira is a Portuguese island, and is the largest and most populous of the Madeira Archipelago. It has an area of 740.7 km 2 (286 sq mi), including Ilhéu de Agostinho, Ilhéu de São Lourenço, Ilhéu Mole (northwest). As of 2021, Madeira had a total population of 245,595.
MadeiraMadeira, the Brazilian answer to Wayfair or Ikea, is now worth $1 billion after raising $190 million in late stage financing from investors led by SoftBank's Latin American investment fund ...
History. In Madeira, the levadas originated out of the necessity to bring large amounts of water from the west and northwest of the island to the drier southeast, which is more conductive to habitation and agriculture, such as sugar cane production. They were also used by women in the past to wash clothes in areas where running water was not ...
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 ...