🇵🇹 Lousada is a town and municipality of the Porto district, in northern Portugal.
It includes the site of Ancient Magnetum (Portuguese Magneto), in the civil parish Meinedo, which briefly was a short-lived Suebi-Galician bishopric and is now a Latin Catholic titular see.
Ecclesiastical history In 569 as Diocese of Magnetum (Latin) / Magneto (Curiate Italiano and Portuguese) / Magneten(sis) (Latin adjective) was established on territory of the Kingdom of the Suebi in Galicia, split off from the Archdiocese of Braga, its apparent Metropolitan.
In 585, when the kingdom was annexed by the Visigoths, and was turned into the sixth province of the Visigothic Kingdom of Hispania, the bishopric was suppressed, its territory being reassigned to establish the Diocese of Portucale (present see of Porto).
Its only recorded residential bishop was: • Viator (572–585).
Titular see The diocese was nominally restored in 1969 as Latin Catholic Titular bishopric of Magnetum (Latin) / Magneto (Curiate Italian) / Magneten(sis) (Latin adjective).
Civil Parishes The municipality of Lousada is subdivided into the following Freguesias 'civil parishes): • Aveleda • Caíde de Rei • Cernadelo e Lousada (São Miguel e Santa Margarida) • Cristelos, Boim e Ordem • Figueiras e Covas • Lodares • Lustosa e Barrosas (Santo Estêvão) • Macieira • Meinedo • Nespereira e Casais • Nevogilde • Silvares, Pias, Nogueira e Alvarenga • Sousela • Torno • Vilar do Torno e Alentém
Eurocircuito da Costilha This circuit has been used several times for the European autocross championship and it is traditionally the circuit where the Portuguese round of the FIA European Championship for rallycross drivers takes place.
Lousada has a population of over 47,387 people. Lousada also forms one of the centres of the wider Tâmega e Sousa District which has a population of over 432,915 people.
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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Lousada has links with:
🇮🇹 Dueville, Italy 🇪🇸 Errenteria, Spain 🇫🇷 Tulle, France🇪🇸 Castelldefels 41.28
🇹🇷 Karadeniz Ereğli 41.279
Locations Near: Lousada -8.24,41.3
🇵🇹 Felgueiras -8.2,41.367 d: 8.1
🇵🇹 Penafiel -8.283,41.2 d: 11.7
🇵🇹 Marco de Canaveses -8.15,41.183 d: 15
🇵🇹 Guimarães -8.3,41.45 d: 17.4
🇵🇹 Amarante -8.067,41.267 d: 14.9
🇵🇹 Valongo -8.5,41.183 d: 25.3
🇵🇹 Vila Nova de Famalicão -8.517,41.4 d: 25.6
Antipodal to: Lousada 171.76,-41.3
🇳🇿 Richmond 173.183,-41.333 d: 19896.2
🇳🇿 Nelson 173.284,-41.269 d: 19887.7
🇳🇿 Canterbury 171.58,-43.543 d: 19765.2
🇳🇿 Christchurch 172.617,-43.517 d: 19758.8
🇳🇿 Wellington 174.767,-41.283 d: 19763.9
🇳🇿 Porirua 174.84,-41.131 d: 19756.8
🇳🇿 Hutt 174.917,-41.217 d: 19751
🇳🇿 Lower Hutt 174.917,-41.217 d: 19751
🇳🇿 Stratford 174.283,-39.333 d: 19709.2
🇳🇿 Upper Hutt 175.05,-41.133 d: 19739.3