A 2012 law merged the parish with neighbouring Amorim and Terroso, becoming the northern parish of the city of Póvoa de Varzim, known as União das Freguesias de Aver-o-Mar, Amorim e Terroso.
The Escola Superior de Estudos Industriais e de Gestão (Superior School of Industrial Studies and Management) or ESEIG is a higher learning polytechnic school in the conurbation of Póvoa de Varzim and Vila do Conde, Portugal.
Póvoa de Varzim, a Portuguese city in the Norte Region and sub-region of Greater Porto
Aver-o-Mar, Amorim e Terroso includes landmarks such as Póvoa de Varzim City Park, the ruins of the Cividade de Terroso, the beaches of Aver-o-Mar, the hillside village of Terroso and Amorim's churches.
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subdivision name = Arouca, Espinho, Gondomar, Maia, Matosinhos, Oliveira de Azeméis, Paredes, Porto, Póvoa de Varzim, Santa Maria da Feira, Santo Tirso, São João da Madeira, Trofa, Vale de Cambra, Valongo, Vila Nova de Gaia and Vila do Conde.
José Macedo Vieira (b. 1949 in Beiriz, Póvoa de Varzim) is the president of the city council of Póvoa de Varzim since 1993 by the PSD party.
His parents are hail from the Póvoa de Varzim parish of Aguçadoura, where Lima visits on occasion during the off-season.
The internal organization of the community was established in rulings by the founders, in which they donated several villas and hamlets in Póvoa de Varzim and farms in Touginha, Beiriz, Terroso, Formariz, Laundos, Navais, and Mirante, with an obligation that four chaplains would pray four masses per day honouring their founders and King Denis.
Pedro Brito Ribeiro (born 31 July 1994 in A Ver-o-Mar - Póvoa de Varzim) aka Pedrinho, is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Doxa Katokopias F.C. in the Cypriot First Division as a midfielder.
Santo André is an area surrounding Cape Santo André in the Portuguese municipality of Póvoa de Varzim, whose territory runs along the northern shoreline of the parish of A Ver-o-Mar (also known as Quião) and south shoreline of Aguçadoura.
Alexandrina said in her memories that when she went with other girls to the countryside, she ran from them and picked flowers that she later used to make flower carpets to the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows in Póvoa de Varzim.
Portuguese modernism in Póvoa de Varzim was prompted by tourism and can be seen in Rogério de Azevedo's iconic works in the city: the Casino da Póvoa and Grande Hotel da Póvoa (Hotel Palácio).
A 2012 law merged the parish with neighbouring Póvoa de Varzim (parish) and Beiriz, becoming the southern parish of the city of Póvoa de Varzim, with a population of 34,266 inhabitants and a total area of 11.88 km².
Cividade de Terroso was an important city of the Castro culture in North-western Iberian Peninsula, established during the Bronze Age, between 800 and 900 BC, as a result of the displacement of the people inhabiting the fertile plain of Póvoa de Varzim.
The Povoan fishermen only married with peoples that were part of its fisher caste, and only within its community in Póvoa de Varzim or small ancient fishing villages directly related with Póvoa, namely Santo André (currently in the modern civil parishes of Aguçadoura and Aver-o-Mar) and Fão (in Esposende).
By the 19th century, the popularity increased with people from the provinces of Minho, Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro that arrived by medical advice to cure several health problems, by breathing the air and diving in the rich iodine seawaters of Póvoa, in a popular movement that occurred in the European Atlantic coast since the 18th century, from Biarritz to Póvoa de Varzim.
According to a former port authority of Leixões, the Count of Vilas Boas, an individual stole a compass in Póvoa de Varzim and tried to sell it in Matosinhos, but he was unaware that the recorded "drawings" in the cover indicated the owner's name and thus the first person whom he approached (a woman from Póvoa de Varzim) managed to recognize the mark immediately.
It includes areas such as fishermen's Bairro Sul, Bairro Norte's beachfront highrises, Póvoa de Varzim's Ancient Roman and Medieval quarters around Bairro da Matriz, Largo das Dores, and Rua da Junqueira, the ancient parish of Argivai and Suburban Beiriz, with countryside estates and newer middle and upper-class residential areas.