Vila Nova de Gaia
Vila Nova de Gaia is a city the Douro Litoral region of Northern Portugal, immediately facing Porto across the Duoro river. The two cities form the core of a contiguous metropolitan area.
- Type: City with 187,000 residents
- Description: municipality in Portugal
- Also known as: “Gaia”, “Portus Cale”, “Vila Nova de Gaia Municipality”, and “Vilanova de Gaia”
- Neighbors: Espinho, Porto, and Santa Maria da Feira
Places of Interest
Highlights include Palácio da Bolsa and Dom Luís I Bridge.
Palácio da Bolsa
Museum
Photo: Manuel de Sousa, Public domain.Dom Luís I Bridge
Bridge
Porto Cathedral
Church
The Porto Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church located in the historical centre of the city of Porto, Portugal. It is one of the city's oldest monuments and one of the most important local Romanesque monuments.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Porto and Mafamude.
Porto
Porto is Portugal's second largest city and the capital of the Northern region, and a busy industrial and commercial centre. The city isn't very populous, but the Porto metropolitan area has some 1.8 million inhabitants in a 50-km radius, with cities like Vila Nova de Gaia, Vila do Conde, Póvoa de Varzim and Espinho.
Mafamude
Suburb
Vila Nova de Gaia
Suburb
Santa Marinha is a former civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Santa Marinha e São Pedro da Afurada. The population in 2011 was 30,146, in an area of 6.91 km².
Vila Nova de Gaia
- Categories: municipality of Portugal and locality
- Location: Porto District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.1292° or 41° 7′ 45″ north
Longitude
-8.6057° or 8° 36′ 21″ west
Population
187,000
Elevation
122 metres (400 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PT VNG
Open location code
8CHH49HV+MP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Vila Nova de Gaia” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Arabic: “فيلا نوا دغايا”
- Aragonese: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Armenian: “Վիլա Նովա դե Գայա”
- Armenian: “Վիլա Նովա դի Գայա”
- Asturian: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Balinese: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Basque: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Belarusian: “Віла-Нова-дзі-Гая”
- Belarusian: “Віла-Нова-ды-Гая”
- Bulgarian: “Вила Нова де Гайа”
- Bulgarian: “Вила Нова ди Гая”
- Catalan: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Cebuano: “Vila Nova de Gaia (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Chechen: “Вила-Нова-ди-Гая”
- Chinese: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Chinese: “加亚新城”
- Chinese: “加亞新城”
- Cornish: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Czech: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Danish: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Dutch: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Esperanto: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Finnish: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- French: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Galician: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Georgian: “ვილა-ნოვა-დე-გაია”
- German: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Greek: “Βίλα Νόβα ντε Γκάια”
- Hebrew: “וילה נובה דה גאיה”
- Hungarian: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Icelandic: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Ido: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Indonesian: “Gaia, Portugal”
- Indonesian: “Gaia”
- Indonesian: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Irish: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Italian: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Japanese: “ヴィラ・ノヴァ・デ・ガイア”
- Japanese: “ガイア”
- Korean: “빌라노바드가이아”
- Latin: “Cale”
- Lezghian: “Вила-Нова-ди-Гая”
- Lithuanian: “Vila Nova de Gaja”
- Lombard: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Macedonian: “Вила Нова де Гала”
- Maltese: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Mazanderani: “ویلا نوا دگایا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Mingrelian: “ვილა-ნოვა-დე-გაია”
- Mirandese: “Bila Nuoba de Gaia”
- Mirandese: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Moksha: “Вила Нова ди Гайя”
- Mongolian: “Вила-Нова-ди-Гая”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Norwegian: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Novial: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Ossetian: “Вилæ-Новæ-ди-Гая”
- Persian: “ویلا نوا دگایا”
- Polish: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Portuguese: “Município de Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Portuguese: “V.N de Gaia”
- Portuguese: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Portuguese: “Villa Nova de Gaia”
- Portuguese: “Vn gaia”
- Romanian: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Russian: “Вила-Нова-де-Гайа”
- Russian: “Вила-Нова-де-Гайя”
- Russian: “Вила-Нова-де-Гая”
- Russian: “Вила-Нова-ди-Гая”
- Serbian: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Serbian: “Vila Nova de Gaja”
- Serbian: “Вила Нова де Гаја”
- Slovak: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Slovenian: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Spanish: “Gaia”
- Spanish: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Swahili: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Swedish: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Tatar: “Вила-Нова-де-Гая”
- Thai: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Thai: “วีลานอวาดือไกยา”
- Turkish: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Ukrainian: “Віла Нова ді Гайя”
- Ukrainian: “Віла-Нова-де-Гая”
- Ukrainian: “Віла-Нова-де-Ґая”
- Ukrainian: “Віла-Нова-ді-Гайя”
- Ukrainian: “Віла-Нова-ді-Гая”
- Urdu: “ویلا نووا ڈی گایا”
- Venetian: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Vietnamese: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Volapük: “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vila Nova de Gaia Municipality”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vila Nova de Gaia”
- Western Panjabi: “ولا نووا دی گائیا”
- Yue Chinese: “加亞新城”
- “Vila Nova de Gaia”
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