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Alcochete

Alcochete (pron.

Pronunciation

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) is a municipality in Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
with a total area of 129.0 km² and a total population of 14,347 inhabitants. The municipality is composed of three parishes and is located in the district of Setúbal

Setúbal (district)

The Districts of Portugal of Set?bal is located in the Southwestern of Portugal, the District Capital is the city of Set?bal.Other cities:Alcacer do Sal,Almada,Amora,Barreiro,Costa da Caparica,Montijo,Seixal,Santiago do Cacem,Sines and Vila Nova de Santo Andre....
. Alcochete is the site of Sporting's

Sporting Clube de Portugal

Sporting Clube de Portugal...
academy.

The present mayor is Luís Franco, elected by the Unitarian Democratic Coalition

Unitarian Democratic Coalition

The Unitarian Democratic Coalition is an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party and the Ecologist Party "The Greens" ....
.

The municipal holiday is June 24.

The largest outlet mall in the Iberian Peninsula

Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small area of France....
is just outside town.

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Alcochete (pron.

Pronunciation

Portugal

Setúbal (district)

Sporting Clube de Portugal

Sporting Clube de Portugal...
academy.

The present mayor is Luís Franco, elected by the Unitarian Democratic Coalition

Unitarian Democratic Coalition

Iberian Peninsula

Bullfighting

Bullfighting or tauromachy , is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, some cities in southern France, and several Latin American countries, in which one or more live bulls are ritually killed as a public spectacle....
tradition and its proximity to the longest bridge in Europe

Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, the Vasco da Gama Bridge

Vasco da Gama Bridge

The Vasco da Gama Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge flanked by viaducts and roads that spans the Tagus near Lisbon, capital of Portugal. It is the List of bridges by length in Europe , with a total length of 17.2 km , including 0.829 km for the main bridge, 11.5 km in viaducts, and 4.8 km in dedicated access roads....
.

The actual site of present-day Alcochete was already occupied during Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
times with a clay

Clay

Clay is a naturally occurring material composed primarily of fine-grained minerals, which show plasticity through a variable range of water content, and which can be hardened when dried and/or fired....
production facility. Its name is thought to derive from the Arabic word for oven for reasons not yet understood. It became a vacation site preferred by the Portuguese royalty and the future king D. Manuel I

Manuel I of Portugal

Manuel I ; Portuguese language: Manoel I, English language: Emmanuel I), the Fortunate , 14th List of Portuguese monarchs was the son of Infante Fernando, Duke of Viseu, by his wife, Beatriz of Portugal ....
was born in the village. It has experienced major development due to the construction of the Vasco da Gama Bridge.

On January 10, 2008, Portuguese prime minister José Sócrates

José Sócrates

Jos? S?crates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, Order of Infante D. Henrique is Prime Minister of Portugal of Portugal and secretary-general of the Socialist Party ....
announced that Alcochete had been selected as the site of the new airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as Fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and Non-rigid airship take off and land. Aircraft may also be stored or maintained at an airport....
serving Lisbon

Lisbon

Portela Airport

Lisbon Portela Airport, also known as Lisbon Airport , is located within the city of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. In Portuguese language, it is called Aeroporto de Lisboa, Aeroporto da Portela, or Aeroporto da Portela de Sacav?m....
, which is located within the city of Lisbon

Lisbon

Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
itself, has become too small to handle demand. This preliminary decision will be finalised after public consultation. The location of Alcochete as the construction site of the future Lisbon Airport was confirmed by the Portuguese Government on May 8, 2008.

Parishes

Alcochete (São João Baptista)
Samouco
São Francisco

Alcochete

Parishes

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