Matosinhos
Matosinhos, officially the City of Matosinhos, is a city and a municipality in the district of Porto in Portugal.
Matosinhos, officially the City of Matosinhos, is a city and a municipality in the district of Porto in Portugal. The municipality covers an area of approximately 62.42 square kilometres (24.10 mi2) and had 172,557 inhabitants in 2021. It is bordered by the municipalities of Porto to the south, Maia to the east and Vila do Conde to the north and the Atlantic Ocean lies to its west. It is a part of the Porto metropolitan area, the second largest urban area in Portugal.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Igreja do Bom Jesus de Matosinhos
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Things to do
Football: Leixões SC play soccer in Liga Portugal 2, the second tier. Their home ground Estádio do Mar (capacity 6800) is east edge of the district.
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Where to eat
- 01A Marisqueira de Matosinhos
Rua Roberto Ivens 717, geral@amarisqueiradematosinhos.com.
- 02Casa de Chá da Boa Nova
Avenida da Liberdade 1681, Leça da Palmeira, boanova@ruipaula.com.
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Getting to Matosinhos
- Airports
- Francisco de Sá Carneiro (OPO), 7 km · Santiago-Rosalía de Castro (SCQ), 192 km · Lisbon Humberto Delgado (LIS), 270 km
- Lisbon → Matosinhos276 km · quickest by air, 3h 58m · €80–120
- Faro → Matosinhos468 km · quickest by air, 3h 58m · €90–140
- Santiago de Compostela → Matosinhos189 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · €24–33
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Matosinhos
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 Matosinhos. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThe Andante Gold, like the Andante Blue can be used in all metro lines, the funicular and all buses.
- Get aroundYour Andante must be validated before you enter the metro, bus or funicular.
- Get aroundThere are ferry boats that connect Porto to the neighboring city of Vila Nova de Gaia, although you can easily walk or travel by car, metro or bus to the other side.
- Get aroundNear the Douro there is a heliport with a helicopter available for people to use to get to know the city as a whole.
- Go nextMinho region — Go on a day trip to this region.
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