Vilar do Paraíso

Vilar do Paraíso is a former civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Mafamude e Vilar do Paraíso. The population in 2011 was 13,878, in an area of 5.30 km2.

Type: Suburb with 13,900 residents
Description: civil parish in Portugal
Also known as: “Freguesia de Vilar do Paraíso” and “Vilar do Paraiso”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Capela de São Martinho and Santo Ovídio station.

Capela de São Martinho

Church

Photo: Ricardo Saraiva de Almeida, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Capela de São Martinho is a church.

Santo Ovídio station

Railway station

Photo: Ernstkers, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Santo Ovídio is a light rail station on line D of the Porto Metro system in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. The station is situated underground, below the junction between Av. da República, R. de Soares dos Reis, R.

Igreja de Santo Ovídio

Church

Photo: Paa2112020, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Igreja de Santo Ovídio is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mafamude and Valadares.

Mafamude

Suburb

Photo: Jonik, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Mafamude is a former civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Mafamude e Vilar do Paraíso.

Valadares

Town

Photo: Achita, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Madalena

Town

Photo: Joseolgon, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Madalena is a Portuguese parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia. Famous for its beaches, the parish makes border with the Atlantic Ocean and only a couple of miles close to Rio Douro.

Vilar do Paraíso

Categories: former freguesia of Portugal, freguesia of Portugal, and locality
Location: Vilar do Paraíso, Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude

41.10646° or 41° 6′ 23″ north

Longitude

-8.61535° or 8° 36′ 55″ west

Population

13,900

Elevation

67 metres (220 feet)

United Nations Location Code

PT VMP

Open location code

8CHH494M+HV

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4015684794

OpenStreetMap feature

place=suburb

GeoNames ID

2732444

Wikidata ID

Q1962829

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Turkish—“Vilar do Paraíso” goes by many names.

Asturian: “Vilar do Paraíso”
Cebuano: “Vilar do Paraíso”
Chechen: “Вилар-ду-Параизу”
Chinese: “Vilar do Paraíso”
Chinese: “维拉尔-杜帕拉伊苏”
Dutch: “Vilar do Paraiso”
Dutch: “Vilar do Paraíso”
French: “Freguesia de Vilar do Paraíso”
German: “Freguesia de Vilar do Paraíso”
German: “Vilar do Paraíso”
Kazakh: “Вилар-ду-Параизу”
Polish: “Vilar do Paraíso”
Portuguese: “Freguesia de Vilar do Paraíso”
Portuguese: “Vilar do Paraiso (freguesia)”
Portuguese: “Vilar do Paraíso”
Russian: “Вилар-ду-Параизу”
Spanish: “Freguesia de Vilar do Paraíso”
Spanish: “Vilar do Paraiso”
Spanish: “Vilar do Paraíso”
Tatar: “Вилар-ду-Параизу”
Turkish: “Vilar do Paraíso”
“Freguesia de Vilar do Paraíso”

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