The Porto municipality’s commitment to accessible health and sport for everyone was reinforced with more than 10 works dedicated to the practice of physical exercise. Among projects already inaugurated, in progress or still being planned, the investment exceeds 17 million euros, in different areas of the city, such as Ramalde, Lordelo do Ouro, Paranhos or even Campanhã.
Among the city’s main new infrastructures, it is worth highlighting the construction of Campo Municipal do Outeiro, in Paranhos, in a municipal investment of around 5.5 million euros, divided between land acquisition, project costs, contract work and inspection.
With the construction of sports facilities, a bench with 510 seats, a support building and respective circulation accesses, the city no longer had bare fields for football practice and returned it to the historic Sporting Clube da Cruz, as well as other clubs in Porto, a worthy gaming space.
In order to cover more modalities and more fans of a healthy lifestyle, the Parque Desportivo de Ramalde/ INATEL, which is managed by Ágora – Cultura e Desporto do Porto, has been offering, since 2017, an athletics track with six corridors and a grass field approved for playing 11-a-side football and rugby.
In 2019, the Ramalde Skate Park was opened, within the sports complex, where children, young people and adults have for the first time a space where they can venture out in this sport. Two years later, GO Porto moved forward with expanding the space and building a bowl.
At the moment, the second phase of the project is underway at this Sports Park, which includes a new football and rugby field, with a support building with covered benches, an area for athletics and archery areas. . This latest project is budgeted at around 4.9 million euros.
The Engenheiro Armando Pimentel Municipal Swimming Pool, under the responsibility of the municipal company Ágora, has opened its doors again, fully equipped and requalified. In a municipal investment of around 2 million euros, this intervention made it possible to overcome a number of structural deficiencies in the interior and exterior of the building.
In order to encourage the practice of physical exercise in the learning of children in the city of Porto, the Municipality also invested around 400 thousand euros in the requalification of 10 external infrastructures of six Basic Schools: EB 2/3 António Nobre, EB 2/ 3 Areosa, EB 2/3 Manoel de Oliveira, EB 2/3 Pêro Vaz de Caminha and EB 2/3 Leonardo Coimbra.
Among the various interventions, there are new floors and equipment for different sports: football, basketball and handball, thus contributing to the social integration of these communities.
During the first quarter of 2024, work also started on the Campo do Viso stand, and on the electrical infrastructure at the Praia Stadium. This first contract, estimated at 215 thousand euros, aims to requalify the existing bench, with a view to improving comfort, safety and circulation conditions.
The Praia Stadium, the largest seasonal sports infrastructure managed by Ágora and which has been operating for 15 years with various competitions and activities, is being rehabilitated in terms of electrical equipment and lighting towers, with a contract value of 79 thousand euros.
Scheduled to start in the second half of 2024, the Campanhã Municipal Field, a new sports facility located on land between Rua de Justino Teixeira and the municipal swimming pools, still needs approval from the Court of Auditors.
With an area of 17 thousand square meters, the space includes a games field with a covered bench, as well as a support building and new street with parking spaces. This new sports complex has a contract value of around 4.6 million euros.
The Eastern Sports Zone, in Campanhã, is still being contracted for a project. Called Espaço Radical Zona Oriental, it involves the construction of a sports park with the installation of a skate park, pump track, street training, basketball and climbing stations.
Also in the project contracting phase, GO Porto also has in hand the construction of a new sports complex in Campo Municipal da Ervilha, which serves Futebol Clube da Foz, with three football fields with synthetic turf, benches, changing rooms, gym , support buildings for administrative areas and exterior arrangements.
