POVOA DE VARZIM


Meaning of POVOA DE VARZIM in English

town and concelho (township), northwestern Portugal, on the Atlantic coast, north of Porto. Primarily a fishing community retaining old customs and picturesque dress, the town is also a popular bathing resort and has a casino and racetrack. Local industries produce rope and small boats. Pvoa de Varzim was the birthplace of Portugal's great novelist Jos Maria de Ea de Queirs, whose writing expressed the Portuguese sentiment saudade ("the longing for what might have been"). Pop. (1981) town, 23,846; (1987 est.) concelho, 57,600.

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