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Figueira da Foz

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Figueira da Foz, also known as Figueira for short, is a city and a municipality in the Coimbra District, in Portugal. [1]

65 relations: Alhadas, Altri, Angoche, Associação Naval 1º de Maio, Association football, Baixo Mondego, BSWW Mundialito, Buarcos, Cabo Mondego, Cape Verde, Casino, Castile and León, Catholic University of Portugal, Centro Region, Portugal, Cimpor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Coimbra, Coimbra District, Crimea, Esplanade, Eurovision Song Contest 2014, Ficus, France, Freguesia, Ginásio C.F. (basketball), Gironde, Gradignan, Hugo Almeida, Iberian Peninsula, Internacional University, João César Monteiro, João Mário Grilo, Köppen climate classification, Lavos (Figueira da Foz), Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol, Luís Wittnich Carrisso, Mediterranean climate, Mondego River, Mortágua, Mozambique, Nampula Province, Neolithic, Old Cathedral of Coimbra, Portugal, Portuguese pavement, Praia, Primeira Liga, Private university, Região de Coimbra, Rui Cordeiro, ..., Saint-Gobain, Santiago, Cape Verde, Serra da Boa Viagem, Shipbuilding, Sister city, Socialist Party (Portugal), Spain, Suzy (singer), Tavarede, The Navigator Company, Ticha Penicheiro, Tourism region, Ukraine, Viseu District, Yevpatoria. Expand index (15 more) »

Alhadas

Alhadas is a town in the municipality of Figueira da Foz, Portugal.

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Altri

Altri SGPS SA is a Portuguese industrial conglomerate headquartered in Porto.

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Angoche

Angoche is a city of Nampula Province in Mozambique.

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Associação Naval 1º de Maio

Associação Naval 1º de Maio, commonly known as Naval, is a Portuguese football club based in Figueira da Foz, Coimbra District.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Baixo Mondego

Baixo Mondego (Lower Mondego in English) is a Portuguese NUTS3 subregion that comprises the lower part of the Mondego River.

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BSWW Mundialito

The BSWW Mundialito, sometimes simply known as Mundialito, is an annual international beach soccer tournament that takes place between few select countries, which are invited to play at the tournament organized by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW).

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Buarcos

Buarcos is a freguesia (civil parish) in Figueira da Foz Municipality, Portugal.

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Cabo Mondego

Cabo Mondego lie in the Portuguese maritime coast of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Cape Verde

Cape Verde or Cabo Verde (Cabo Verde), officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country spanning an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands in the central Atlantic Ocean.

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Casino

A casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities.

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Castile and León

Castile and León (Castilla y León; Leonese: Castiella y Llión; Castela e León) is an autonomous community in north-western Spain.

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Catholic University of Portugal

The Catholic University of Portugal (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), also referred to as Católica or UCP for short, is the only concordatary university (non-state-run university with concordatary status) of the Catholic Church, in Portugal.

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Centro Region, Portugal

The Centro Region (Região Centro) is a region in central Portugal.

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Cimpor

Cimpor - Cimentos de Portugal is the largest Portuguese cement group, operating in eleven countries - Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Brazil, Tunisia, Turkey, Cape Verde, Mozambique, China, Egypt and South Africa, involved in manufacturing and marketing cement, hydraulic lime, concrete and aggregates, precast concrete and dry mortars.

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Ciudad Rodrigo

Ciudad Rodrigo is a small cathedral city in the province of Salamanca, in western Spain, with a population in 2016 of 12,896.

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Coimbra

Coimbra (Corumbriga)) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population at the 2011 census was 143,397, in an area of. The fourth-largest urban centre in Portugal (after Lisbon, Porto, Braga), it is the largest city of the district of Coimbra, the Centro region and the Baixo Mondego subregion. About 460,000 people live in the Região de Coimbra, comprising 19 municipalities and extending into an area. Among the many archaeological structures dating back to the Roman era, when Coimbra was the settlement of Aeminium, are its well-preserved aqueduct and cryptoporticus. Similarly, buildings from the period when Coimbra was the capital of Portugal (from 1131 to 1255) still remain. During the Late Middle Ages, with its decline as the political centre of the Kingdom of Portugal, Coimbra began to evolve into a major cultural centre. This was in large part helped by the establishment the University of Coimbra in 1290, the oldest academic institution in the Portuguese-speaking world. Apart from attracting many European and international students, the university is visited by many tourists for its monuments and history. Its historical buildings were classified as a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 2013: "Coimbra offers an outstanding example of an integrated university city with a specific urban typology as well as its own ceremonial and cultural traditions that have been kept alive through the ages.".

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Coimbra District

Coimbra District (Distrito de Coimbra) is located in the Centro Region, the district capital is the city of Coimbra.

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Crimea

Crimea (Крым, Крим, Krym; Krym; translit;; translit) is a peninsula on the northern coast of the Black Sea in Eastern Europe that is almost completely surrounded by both the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov to the northeast.

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Esplanade

An esplanade or promenade is a long, open, level area, usually next to a river or large body of water, where people may walk.

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Eurovision Song Contest 2014

The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 was the 59th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest.

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Ficus

Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Freguesia

Freguesia, usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution.

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Ginásio C.F. (basketball)

Casino Figueira Ginasio is a professional basketball team based in Figueira da Foz, Portugal.

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Gironde

Gironde (in Occitan Gironda) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwest France.

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Gradignan

Gradignan is a commune in the Gironde department in southwestern France.

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Hugo Almeida

Hugo Miguel Pereira de Almeida (born 23 May 1984) is a Portuguese professional footballer who is currently a free agent.

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Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula, also known as Iberia, is located in the southwest corner of Europe.

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Internacional University

Internacional University (Universidade Internacional) or UI for short, was a Portuguese private university with facilities in Lisbon and Figueira da Foz, which had been founded in 1984.

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João César Monteiro

João César Monteiro Santos was a Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic.

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João Mário Grilo

João Mário Lourenço Bagão Grilo (born 1958-11-08) is a Portuguese film director, author and professor, born in Figueira da Foz.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Lavos (Figueira da Foz)

Lavos is a parish in Figueira da Foz Municipality, Portugal.

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Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol

The Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol (Portuguese Basketball League) is the top men's professional club basketball league in Portugal.

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Luís Wittnich Carrisso

Luís Wittnich Carrisso (14 February 1886 – 14 June 1937) was a Portuguese botanist, professor at the University of Coimbra.

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Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate or dry summer climate is characterized by rainy winters and dry summers.

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Mondego River

The Rio Mondego (English language: Mondego River) is the longest river located exclusively in Portuguese territory.

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Mortágua

Mortágua is a municipality in the district of Viseu, Portugal.

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Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique (Moçambique or República de Moçambique) is a country in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest.

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Nampula Province

Nampula is a province of northern Mozambique.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.

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Old Cathedral of Coimbra

The Old Cathedral of Coimbra (Sé Velha de Coimbra) is a Romanesque Roman Catholic building in Portugal.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa),In recognized minority languages of Portugal: Portugal is the oldest state in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times.

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Portuguese pavement

Portuguese pavement (calçada portuguesa) is a traditional-style pavement used for many pedestrian areas in Portugal.

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Praia

Praia (lit. "beach", in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole), is the capital and largest city of Cape Verde, an island nation in the Atlantic Ocean west of Senegal.

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Primeira Liga

The Primeira Liga (English: Premier League), also known as Liga NOS for sponsorship reasons, is the top professional association football division of the Portuguese football league system.

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Private university

Private universities are typically not operated by governments, although many receive tax breaks, public student loans, and grants.

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Região de Coimbra

The Comunidade Intermunicipal da Região de Coimbra is an administrative division in Portugal.

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Rui Cordeiro

Rui Pedro Godinho Cordeiro (born 14 October 1976 in Figueira da Foz) was a Portuguese rugby union footballer.

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Saint-Gobain

Saint-Gobain S.A. is a French multinational corporation, founded in 1665 in Paris and headquartered on the outskirts of Paris, at La Défense and in Courbevoie.

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Santiago, Cape Verde

Santiago (Portuguese for “Saint James”), or Santiagu in Cape Verdean Creole, is the largest island of Cape Verde, its most important agricultural centre and home to half the nation’s population.

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Serra da Boa Viagem

Serra da Boa Viagem (English: Bon voyage Mountain) lie three kilometers north of Figueira da Foz.

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Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Socialist Party (Portugal)

The Socialist Party (Partido Socialista,, PS) is a social-democratic political party in Portugal.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Suzy (singer)

Susana Guerra (born 24 January 1980), better known by her stage name Suzy, is a Portuguese singer.

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Tavarede

Tavarede is a parish in the municipality of Figueira da Foz, Portugal.

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The Navigator Company

The Navigator Company (formerly known as Portucel Soporcel Group) is a Portuguese pulp and paper company.

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Ticha Penicheiro

Patrícia Nunes "Ticha" Penicheiro, OIH (September 18, 1974) is a Portuguese sports agent and retired basketball player.

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Tourism region

A tourism region is a geographical region that has been designated by a governmental organization or tourism bureau as having common cultural or environmental characteristics.

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Ukraine

Ukraine (Ukrayina), sometimes called the Ukraine, is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the east and northeast; Belarus to the northwest; Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively.

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Viseu District

The District of Viseu (Distrito de Viseu) is located in the Central Inland of Portugal, the District Capital is the city of Viseu.

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Yevpatoria

Yevpatoriya is a city of regional significance in Crimea, Ukraine (as the Autonomous Republic of Crimea).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figueira_da_Foz

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