Porto Brandão is a locality in the freguesia

Freguesia

Freguesia is the Portuguese term for a secondary local administrative unit in Portugal and some of its former colonies, and a former secondary local administrative unit in Macau, roughly equivalent to an administrative parish. A freguesia is a subdivision of a concelho, the Portuguese synonym term...

 of Caparica

Caparica (Almada)

Caparica is a Portuguese parish, located in the municipality of Almada. It has a population of 19,327 inhabitants and a total area of 10.71 km². Its name of inhabitants are known as Caparicanos.-Name:...

, the municipality of Almada

Almada

Almada is a municipality in Portugal, covering an area of 70.2 km² located on the southern margin of the Tagus River. Its municipal population in 2008 was 164,844 inhabitants; the urbanized center had a population of 102,357.The seat is the city of Almada....

 and the district of Setúbal

Setúbal

Setúbal is the main city in Setúbal Municipality in Portugal with a total area of 172.0 km² and a total population of 118,696 inhabitants in the municipality. The city proper has 89,303 inhabitants....

, Portugal. With an excellent strategic location, it is situated by the Tejo

Tejo

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 river and serves several industrial routes with a part of Trafaria

Trafaria

Trafaria is a Portuguese town and a parish, located in the municipality of Almada. It has a population of 5,946 inhabitants and a total area of 5.83 km²....

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Monuments

• Edifício do Lazareto, now in ruins. Until the 1990s, the buildings featured diverse families from the former Portuguese
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   colonies in Africa especially Cape Verde
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History

Since the ancient period, the locality at the south bank of the Tejo and featured the passage bridge. The Romans

Ancient Rome

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 and the Berbers settled the small port of Tejo up to the end of the main road. Locally it separated Lisbon

Lisbon

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by a river and constructed boats with various kinds.