Custóias

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Custóias is one of the 10 parishes of the Matosinhos municipality in the Greater Porto area. It is mainly a residential place constituted by two storey houses or habitational buildings. It has also different neighborhoods two of them, San Gens and Salazar being socio-degraded locals mainly inhabited by gipsy people and criminals. The rate of violence, crime is big in these neighborhods and drug dealing is in a big amount.


Custóias has also the biggest and most secure state penitentiary prison from Portugal that serves all the north region of the country.