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Joane

Joane is a civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal.

Joane
Joane · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Joane is a civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,089, in an area of 7.32 km2. It is the birthplace of Bernardino Machado, two times President of Portugal during the First Republic.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Joane

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Ponte de Serves

    Bridge of Serves is a bridge to connect Pedome, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal to Gondar, Guimarães, Portugal, crossing the Ave River. The bridge was classified as a National Monument in 1938.

    3.6 km · bridge in Portugal · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Joane

Airports
Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO), 30 km · Santiago-Rosalía de Castro (SCQ), 163 km
  • Lisbon → Joane
    308 km · quickest by road, 4h 49m · €35–49
  • Faro → Joane
    493 km · quickest by air, 5h 4m · €130–190
  • Santiago de Compostela → Joane
    161 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · €21–29
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Joane

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Joane. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTo go to Penha Mountain, the easy option to go up is on the cable car - Teleférico da Penha -.

From Wikivoyage: Guimarães, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    748 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    1,121 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,165 km
  4. 04
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,215 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    1,304 km

If you know how people move in Joane – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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