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FIGUEIRA DA FOZ, or FIGUEIRA

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 334 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FAT-FLA
FIGUEIRA DA FOZ, or FIGUEIRA , a seaport of central Portugal, in the
district
  of Coimbra, formerly included in the province of Beira; on the north bank of the river Mondego, at its mouth, and at the terminus of the Lisbon-Figueira and Guarda-Figueira railways. Pop. (1900) 6221. Figueira da Foz is an important fishing-station, and one of the headquarters of the
coasting
 
trade
  in
grain
 , fruit, wine, olive oil,
cork
  and coal; but owing to the bar at the mouth of the Mondego large ships cannot enter. Glass is manufactured, and the city attracts many visitors by its excellent climate and sea-bathing. A residential suburb, the Bairro Novo, exists chiefly for their
accommodation
 , to the north-west of the old town. Figueira is connected by a tramway running 4 M. N. W. with Buarcos (pop. 5033) and with the coal-mines of Cape Mondego. Lavos (pop. 7939), on the
south
  bank of the Mondego, was the
principal
  landing-place of the British troops which came, in 18o8, to take part in the Peninsular War. Figueira da Foz received the title and privileges of city by a decree dated the loth of September 1882.


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