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A Buraca
A Buraca names several Portuguese entities: Adega A Buraca, a 2007 wine-tourism estate with museum and liqueurs on Pico Island, Azores; a Portuguese restaurant in Barreiro; and the Buraca district of Amadora with its park and sports complex.
Albufeira
Albufeira, Al-Buhera, is a central Algarve municipality in southern Portugal: 140.66 km², 44,164 residents (2021), four parishes, a Roman and Moorish past, and a tourism economy swelling to about 400,000 in season.
Aveiro, Aveiro
Aveiro is a coastal city and municipality in Portugal's Centro region, capital of Aveiro District, built on the Ria de Aveiro lagoon. Known as the Venice of Portugal for its canals and moliceiro boats, with salt pans, Art Nouveau buildings, and a 1515 foral.
Cascais
Cascais is a coastal municipality in Portugal's Lisbon District on the Portuguese Riviera, west of the Tagus estuary. Town charter 1364 under Pedro I; 97.4 km², 214,158 residents (2021), four parishes, resort era from 1870.
Coimbra
Coimbra, central Portuguese city on the Mondego, former royal capital and home of the University of Coimbra (founded 1290, in Coimbra since 1537), a UNESCO World Heritage university city since 2013 with about 156,000 residents.
Covilhã
Covilhã, a city and municipality in central Portugal on the Serra da Estrela slope, is the historic center of Portuguese wool, nicknamed the Manchester of Portugal, home to the Universidade da Beira Interior and its Wool Museum.
Faro, Portugal
Faro, Portugal: Algarve capital on the Ria Formosa, ancient Ossónoba, Moorish Ukxûnuba, bishopric seat since 1540; municipality of 202.57 km², 80,256 residents in 2025.
Figueira da Foz
Figueira da Foz, a city and municipality at the mouth of the Mondego river on Portugal's Atlantic coast; village in 1771, city in 1882; 60,670 residents (2023), 379 km2, known for its port, beaches, casino, and eroding, dredged coastline.
Funchal
Funchal, capital and largest city of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, Portugal; amphitheatre city on a south-facing bay named after fennel. Chartered 1508 by Manuel I; 107,562 residents (2023); 76.22 km2; port and cruise hub.
Gondomar, Portugal
Gondomar is a municipality in the Porto district, located east of Porto along the Douro river, and is Portugal's principal center for goldsmithing and intricate filigree work.
Guimarães
Guimarães, a city in Portugal's Braga district, is known as the birthplace of Portugal and its first 12th-century capital. Its UNESCO-listed Historic Centre and Couros Zone, 241 km² municipality of about 160,000 people, and European Green Capital 2026 title distinguish it.
Lagos, Portugal
Lagos (Lacobriga, Zawaia) is a city and municipality in the western Algarve, Faro District, Portugal: 40,729 residents in 2025, a Discoveries-era port, seat of the Algarve bishopric from 1572, rebuilt after the 1755 earthquake, now tourism-driven.
Leiria
Leiria, Portugal: district capital in the Centro region on the river Lis, founded around the 1135 castle of Afonso Henriques, a city and bishopric since 1545, now an industrial and university center of about 134,000 residents.
Lisbon
Lisbon (Lisboa), capital of Portugal since 1255 on the Tagus estuary; Phoenician Alis-Ubbo, Roman Olisipo, reconquered 1147. Destroyed by the 1 November 1755 earthquake, fire, and tsunami; rebuilt as the Pombaline Baixa; today a tourism-driven capital of 548,703 facing a housing crisis.
Mafra, Portugal
Mafra is a town and municipality in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, Portugal, seat of an 86,521-inhabitant municipality, famous for the 1717–1730 Palace-Convent of D. João V, the Tapada hunting reserve, and the surfing village of Ericeira.
Maia, Portugal
Maia is a municipality in the Porto Metropolitan Area, northern Portugal, hosting Porto Airport 6 km from the city center. Known for its medieval Terra da Maia heritage, 1519 foral, industrial growth, and 2026 Happy City Index national first place.
Matosinhos
Matosinhos, coastal city and municipality in Porto District, Portugal, near Porto; 181,046 inhabitants. Known for Leixões SC (founded 1907), Estádio do Mar, and the Matosinhos Sport municipal sports company.
Nazaré, Portugal
Nazaré, Portugal: Atlantic municipality in Leiria district, Oeste region, about 14,680 residents on 82 km2 across three parishes. Famous for its crescent beach, seven-skirt fishwives, Sítio cliff, and giant Praia do Norte waves over the 5-km-deep Nazaré Canyon.
Ponta Delgada
Ponta Delgada is the largest city and municipality of São Miguel in the Azores, Portugal, and seat of the regional government; 71,695 residents in 2025, 29.2% of the region, hub of João Paulo II Airport.
Porto
Porto (Oporto), Portugal's second-largest city on the Douro River, with a UNESCO-listed historic centre (1996), 273,476 residents in 2025, a growing tourism and business economy, and housing costs below Lisbon's.
Santa Maria da Feira
Santa Maria da Feira is a city and municipality in Portugal's Aveiro District, south of Porto, named after a fair held from 1117. Known for its National Monument castle, the Festa das Fogaceiras, and cork and footwear industry.
Seixal
Seixal is a Portuguese municipality in Setúbal District on the southern Tagus estuary, Lisbon Metropolitan Area. Known for its pebble-derived name, 1403 Corroios tide mill, cork and steel industry, and 198,254 residents in 2025.
Setúbal
Setúbal: coastal city and district capital in Portugal at the mouth of the River Sado, 40-50 km from Lisbon. Former Roman Cetóbriga, 123,496 residents (2021), port and fish-salting heritage, Arrábida Natural Park and Sado estuary dolphins.
Sintra
Sintra, Portugal: town and Serra forming the Cultural Landscape of Sintra, UNESCO World Heritage site since 1995 and first centre of European Romantic architecture, with Pena Palace, Moorish Castle and Monserrate gardens.
Vila do Conde
Vila do Conde is a coastal municipality in Portugal's Porto district at the mouth of the River Ave, with 80,831 residents (2021), 25 parishes, the 1318 Convent of Santa Clara, a shipbuilding heritage, and a 24 June São João festival.
Vila Nova de Famalicão
Vila Nova de Famalicão, a municipality in Portugal's Braga district in the Minho region, had 133,574 residents in 2021 on 201.59 km², received its foral from D. Sancho I in 1205, and is known as Portugal's Textile City.
Vila Nova de Gaia
Vila Nova de Gaia (Gaia): Portuguese municipality and city on the south bank of the Douro opposite Porto, in the Porto Metropolitan Area; 311,223 residents (2023), 168.46 km², 15 parishes, municipality founded 1834, city since 1984, famous for port wine cellars.
Viseu, Viseu
Viseu, Viseu: Portuguese city and municipality, capital of Viseu District in central Portugal; 109,166 residents (2025), 507 km², 25 parishes; PS mayor João Azevedo since 2025; Dão wine center; distinct from Viseu, Pará, Brazil.