Aveiro District

A Church of São João Evangelista (Portuguese: Igreja de São João Evangelista), or Carmelite Church of Aveiro, is an 18th-century church in the Praça Marquês de Pombal, in the civil parish of Glória e Vera Cruz, in the Portuguese municipality of Aveiro. It was declared a national monument in 1910.

Glória e Vera Cruz is a civil parish in the municipality of Aveiro, in the central Portuguese district of Aveiro. It was constituted in 2013, following the national administrative reform, through aggregation of the civil parishes of Glória and Vera Cruz, resulting a cumulative population of 18756 inhabitants dispersed through a total area of 45.32 square kilometres (17.50 sq mi).

The Diocese of Aveiro (Latin: Dioecesis Aveirensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Portugal. It has existed since 1938. In that year it was formed as territories taken from the historical diocese of Coimbra, diocese of Porto and diocese of Viseu were combined. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Braga. In 2012, it had 274,400 baptized over 314,800 inhabitants. Its see at Aveiro is also the capital of the district of Aveiro. The bishop is António Manuel Moiteiro Ramos, appointed in 2014.

The Cathedral of Aveiro (Portuguese: Sé de Aveiro), also known as the Church of St. Dominic (Portuguese: Igreja de São Domingos), is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Aveiro, Portugal. It is the seat of the Diocese of Aveiro and built in Portuguese Baroque. It was founded in 1423 as a Dominican convent. Since 6 March 1996, it is on the register of National monuments of Portugal.

Aveiro ([aˈvɐjɾu] ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. In 2021, the population was 80,880, in an area of 197.58 square kilometres (76.29 sq mi): it is the second most populous city in the Centro Region of Portugal (after Coimbra). Along with the neighbouring city of Ílhavo, Aveiro is part of an urban agglomeration that includes 120,000 inhabitants, making it one of the most important populated regions by density in the North Region, and primary centre of the Intermunicipal Community of Aveiro and Baixo Vouga. Administratively, the president of the municipal government is José Ribau Esteves, elected by coalition between the Social Democratic Party and the Democratic Social Centre, who governs the ten civil parishes (Portuguese: freguesias).

The University of Aveiro (Portuguese: Universidade de Aveiro) is a public university, in addition to providing polytechnic education, located in the Portuguese city of Aveiro. Founded in 1973, it has a student population of approximately 12,500, distributed among 58 graduate, 40 Masters of Science and 25 PhD programs, distributed by departments and autonomous sections, with specialized faculties. It is a Research & Development university, with research departments developing programmes in fundamental and applied mathematics, physics, chemistry, telecommunications, robotics, bioinformatics, sea sciences, materials, design, business administration and industrial engineering. The main campus and nearby Administration and Accounting Institute, are located in the city centre of Aveiro. There are external/regional campuses in Águeda (Higher Education Technological and Management School of Águeda) and Oliveira de Azeméis (Higher Education School of North Aveiro). It serves as a pole for the inter-university Doctoral program, along with the universities of Porto and Minho. Its integrated Masters in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering was the first Portuguese IT oriented European Accredited Engineering Masters (EUR-ACE) by the European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education.

Esgueira is an urban civil parish in the municipality (concelho) of Aveiro, in continental Portugal. The population in 2011 was 13,431, in an area of 17.15 km2 (6.62 sq mi).

The Comunidade Intermunicipal da Região de Aveiro (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁɨʒiˈɐ̃w dɨ aˈvɐjɾu]; English: Aveiro Region) is an administrative division in Portugal. It was created in October 2008, replacing the previously existing Greater Metropolitan Area of Aveiro. Since January 2015, Região de Aveiro is also a NUTS3 subregion of Centro Region, that covers the same area as the intermunicipal community. The main city and seat of the intermunicipal community is Aveiro. The population in 2011 was 370,394, in an area of 1,692.86 square kilometres (653.62 sq mi).

Aradas is a civil parish in Aveiro Municipality, Aveiro District, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 9,157, in an area of 8.93 km2.

Baixo Vouga (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˌbajʃu ˈvoɣɐ]) is a former Portuguese subregion integrated in the Centro Region. It was abolished at the January 2015 NUTS 3 revision. It was centered on the city of Aveiro. Other major cities included Águeda, Ílhavo and Ovar. The subregion covered an area of 1,807 km2 and had a population of 394,393 inhabitants (2005) for an overall density of 218 inhabitants/km2. It was crossed from east to west by the Vouga River.

The Boco (Portuguese: Rio Boco, Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʁiu ˈboku]) is a river in Portugal. It flows into the Ria de Aveiro at the Aveiro Lagoon through the Ílhavo Channel (Portuguese: Canal de Ílhavo).

Santa Joana is a civil parish in Aveiro Municipality, Aveiro District, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,094, in an area of 5.85 km2.