Gondomar, Portugal

Gondomar is a municipality located in the east of Portugal's Porto Metropolitan Area and 7 km from central Porto. The population in 2011 was 168,027, in an area of 131.86 km2. Gondomar's mayor is Marco Martins.

Gondomar is well known for its jewelry industry, and its name can be traced, like many other toponyms of Northern Portugal, to a prominent Visigothic figure of his day, the King Gundemar.

The Douro influences the municipality's gastronomy, where shad and lamprey are its most typical products.

Cities and towns
Cities are:
 * Gondomar (1991)
 * Rio Tinto (1995)
 * Valbom (2005)

Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 7 civil parishes (freguesias):
 * Baguim do Monte
 * Fânzeres e São Pedro da Cova
 * Foz do Sousa e Covelo
 * Lomba
 * Melres e Medas
 * Rio Tinto
 * Gondomar (São Cosme), Valbom e Jovim

Sports
The town has one association football team called Gondomar who currently play in the Campeonato de Portugal, the fourth tier of Portuguese football.

Notable people

 * João de Sahagún (1668–1730) a Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of São Tomé e Príncipe, 1709–1730
 * Isabel Santos (born 1968 in Valbom) a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament since 2019.

Sport

 * Pedro Barbosa (born 1970) a Portuguese retired footballer with 422 club caps and 22 for Portugal
 * Rómulo Filipe Cunha da Silva (born 1976), known as Rómulo, a Portuguese former footballer with 506 club caps
 * Daniel Materazzi (born 1985) a footballer with over 320 club caps
 * Ricardo Filipe da Silva Braga (born 1985) known as Ricardinho a Portuguese futsal player who has played over 300 games and 160 for Portugal
 * André Castro (born 1988), known as Castro, a Portuguese footballer with over 360 club caps