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Alcochete

Municipality in Setúbal, Portugal

Field	Value
type	municipality
official_name	Alcochete
image_flag	Pt-ach1.png
flag_border	no
image_shield	Vila_de_Alcochete_(brasão).png
image_skyline	Alcochete 2013-3.jpg
image_caption	View of the old part of the city of Alcochete.
coordinates
mapframe	yes
mapframe-zoom	10
region	Lisbon
metro	Lisbon
district	Setúbal
leader_party	PS
leader_name	Fernando Pinto
area_total_km2	128.36
population_total	17,569
population_as_of	2011
parishes	3
holiday	Saint John
June 24
website	http://www.cm-alcochete.pt

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Alcochete () is a municipality in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 17,569, in an area of 128.36 km². The municipality is composed of three parishes and is located in Setúbal District.

Alcochete is known for its bullfighting tradition and its proximity to the second-longest bridge in Europe, the Vasco da Gama Bridge.

The actual site of present-day Alcochete was already occupied during Roman times with a clay 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 was born in the village. It has experienced major development due to the construction of the Vasco da Gama Bridge.

On 10 January 2008 Portuguese prime minister José Sócrates announced that Alcochete had been selected as the site of the new airport serving Lisbon, Portugal's capital. The location of Alcochete as the construction site of the future Lisbon Airport was confirmed by the Portuguese Government on May 8, 2008.

Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting CP or Sporting Portugal) has a football training facility (Academia Sporting/Cristiano Ronaldo in Alcochete), which accommodated Portugal during the Euro 2004 competition.

Demographics

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 3 civil parishes (freguesias):

Alcochete
Samouco
São Francisco

Notable people

Manuel I of Portugal (1469–1521) King of Portugal from 1495 to 1521, member of the House of Aviz
Francisco Rodrigues da Cruz (1859–1948) a Portuguese priest of the Catholic Church, known as Father Cruz
Frederico Barrigana (1922–2007) a Portuguese football goalkeeper with 260 caps with FC Porto.
Francisco Bolota (born 1946) a Portuguese former footballer with approximately 250 club caps

References

[http://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xlang=en&xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_indicadores&indOcorrCod=0005889&contexto=pi&selTab=tab0 Instituto Nacional de Estatística]
"Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país".
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080128182741/http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2008/01/10/afx4516319.html Portugal's new Lisbon airport to be built in Alcochete for 4.9 bln eur - PM] from [[Forbes]] online, January 10, 2008
[http://www.portugal.gov.pt/Portal/PT/Governos/Governos_Constitucionais/GC17/Conselho_de_Ministros/Comunicados_e_Conferencias_de_Imprensa/20080508.htm Portal do Governo]
"Sporting Portugal".
link. (8 April 2008)
Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 7".

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