Lousado is a Portuguese parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão, with an area of 5.61 km² and 4,057 inhabitants (2011). Its population density is 723.2 inhabitants/km². It is an important railway hub.
It also has the oldest narrow-gauge locomotive in Portugal, built in England in 1874, which coexists with the medical post carriage, where Egas Moniz, railway doctor, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1949 is honored. , such as overhead cranes, machine tools for manufacturing and repairing parts, forging, carpentry and sawmilling. There are several locomotives on display, all of them considered railway jewels, such as locomotive number 6 CFPPV, built in England in 1874
Exhibition
The exhibition of rolling stock, organized chronologically, aims to show trains of different types. The material, built between 1875 and 1965, comes from eight companies and was acquired in six countries from 15 builders.
41° 20′ 56″ N, 8° 31′ 12″ W
The Lagoncinha bridge, over the Ave river, is located in Lugar da Garrida, in the parish of Lousado, municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão, district of Braga, in Portugal.
It was built in the 12th century, probably on the ruins of an old Roman bridge on the road that connected Bracara Augusta to Cale.
The Lagocinha bridge, over the Ave River, dates back, quite possibly, to the medieval period, when it replaced the old Roman bridge that established the connection between Porto and the city of Braga and, mainly, the connection between Porto and Santarém , in what was considered one of the most important routes of the Roman Empire (Scalabis Praesidium Julium)
Located in the southern area of the municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão, in the parish of Lousado, over the River Ave, it is a notable example of a Romanesque bridge, both in terms of engineering and in terms of history, being a fantastic heritage element in the municipality and in Portugal.
