Back Валадареш (Вила-Нова-де-Гайа) CE Valadares (parokya sa Distrito do Porto, Vila Nova de Gaia) CEB Valadares (Vila Nova de Gaia) German Valadares (Vila Nova de Gaia) Spanish Valadares (Vila Nova de Gaia) French Валадареш (Вила-Нова-де-Гайа) Kazakh Valadares (Vila Nova de Gaia) Dutch Valadares (Vila Nova de Gaia) Portuguese Валадареш (Вила-Нова-де-Гайа) Russian Valadares (Vila Nova de Gaia) Turkish
Valadares | |
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| Coordinates: 41°06′00″N 8°38′24″W / 41.100°N 8.640°W | |
| Country |  Portugal |
| Region | Norte |
| Metropolitan area | Porto |
| District | Porto |
| Municipality | Vila Nova de Gaia |
| Disbanded | 2013 |
| Area | |
• Total | 5.14 km2 (1.98 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 10,678 |
| • Density | 2,100/km2 (5,400/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+00:00 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+01:00 (WEST) |
| Website | www |
Valadares is a former civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Gulpilhares e Valadares.[1] The population in 2011 was 10,678,[2] in an area of 5.14 km2.[3]
Today the shoreside vicinity is very popular for its nightlife and the bars along its well-known beach. It is also possible to see some old sanatoriums used mostly in the 1940s and 1950s to treat people suffering from bone fractures and diseases like tuberculosis. The sanatoriums were established here because the region is extremely rich in iodine, valuable for its antiseptic uses in medicine.
Valadares is also very famous for Cerâmica de Valadares that today it is considered the biggest and most varied National Manufacture provider of sanitary ware and ceramic fittings. There is a train station.
- ^ Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, pages 552 134-135" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 4 August 2014.
- ^ Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ^ Eurostat