Civil parish in Lisbon, Portugal
Moscavide e Portela
Moscavide e Portela is a civil parish in the municipality of Loures, Portugal.
It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Moscavide and Portela. The population in 2011 was 21,891, in an area of 1.66 km².
How locals move
Getting around Moscavide e Portela the local way
- Get inThere are two airports within the Lisbon Region: Lisbon Portela Airport, which handles scheduled and charter passenger flights, and Aeródromo Municipal de Cascais, which is a small airport for general aviation (private planes) in Cascais.
- Get aroundAt its backbone are the local railways, supported by the light rail systems and the ferries across the Tagus, complemented by bus connections, all of which have several operators.
- Get aroundThe line starts in Barreiros on the south bank of the Tagus, where you can get by a ferry from the very heart of Lisbon.
- Get aroundTo close the gap the Tagus poses, a company called Transtejo operates a number of regular ferry connections between various quays in Lisbon and municipalities on the southern side of the river.
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