Amadora is a city and a municipality in Portugal, in the northwest of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. The city and municipality population is 175,872 in eleven freguesias. With an area of 23.77 kmē, it is the most densely populated municipality of Portugal.
Amadora is a satellite city of Lisbon, one of the smallest Portuguese municipalities, but one of the most populous.
The municipality was formed on September 11, 1979, when it ceased being a parish of Oeiras municipality. It was incorporated as a city since that date.
Amadora is one of the largest cities in Portugal by population. It forms a conurbation with the Portuguese capital Lisbon, and both cities share the same subway, bus and train network. It is also a major residential suburb of the capital, and the landscape is dominated by large apartment blocks and some industry.
Amadora is also home to a big community of African immigrants, mostly from Angola and Cape Verde.
Major rehabilitation plans have been started, Amadora is still regarded as a city with a crime rate higher than the national average.
Its flag is a typical gyronny of green over white. It includes a 5 towered mural crown, and a scroll that reads cidade da amadora. The shield is green, has in chef a yellowish airplane propeller and a silver windsock, then an aqueduct and below a pomegranate tree also in that yellowish colour of the propeller, with fruits with something red within.
Initially called Porcalhota, for being a Majorat of the daughter of one man surnamed Porcalho who was called for being a female Porcalhota, it later changed its name to the present day one.
At the present time Amadora does not have any airfield. In the 1920s a small airfield was located here. The first air travel from Portugal to Brazil had its departure from Amadora.
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