Oliveira de Azeméis is a city and municipality in the Porto Metropolitan Area of Portugal. Administratively, the municipality belongs to the District of Aveiro. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 68,611, in an area of 161.10 km2. The city itself has a population of about 20,000. Oliveira de Azeméis is 35 km south of Porto, less than 20 km from the Atlantic Ocean. The municipal holiday is the Monday following the second Sunday of August.

Facilities

Local facilities include:

Economy

Oliveira de Azeméis is an important industrial center, producing a variety of goods such as injection moulds, dairy produce, shoes, car components, steel tubes and other steel materials (Ferpinta), cookware (Silampos and CELAR), springs and mattresses. Among its best-known companies are Simoldes and Lactogal.

Transport

The town has connections to the A1, A29 and A32 motorways and the IC2 expressway. It is served by Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport/Oporto's airport.

Sports

Its most prominent sports club is the União Desportiva Oliveirense (U.D.O.), which fields teams in football, basketball and ring hockey as well as an affiliated cycling team that holds a UCI Continental team licence, the Kelly–Simoldes–UDO (UCI team code: KSU). Another club is Futebol Clube Pinheirense (FCP), dedicated mostly to football. They have a children's school in partnership with Benfica from Lisbon.

Demographics

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 12 civil parishes (freguesias):

Cities and towns

There is one city in the municipality: Oliveira de Azeméis. The towns are

Marian sanctuary

In the centre there is a Marian sanctuary, La-Salette. It was built to honor the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in the small village of La Salette, Isère, in France. The sanctuary contains the finger of a burglar who tried to steal precious artifacts one night (a guard shot the burglar with his shotgun and only hit his finger). The finger is preserved in a jar of alcohol in front of the chapel.

Notable people

Sport