Novais is a civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão, neighbouring Carreira, Ruivães and Delães. Its patron saint is São Simão. It was formerly annexed to Ruivães and later to Carreira, becoming an independent parish in 1936. Merged with Ruivães in 2013, it regained its own status under Law no. 25-A/2025.
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Novais is a village in the municipality of Vila Nova de Famalicão, and the seat of the parish of the same name. It borders Carreira, Ruivães and Delães, and its patron saint is São Simão.<p>For a long time it was not an autonomous parish: in the 1878 census it appears annexed to Ruivães, and in those from 1911 to 1930, to Carreira. It became an autonomous parish by Decree-Law no. 27,424, of 31 December 1936. In 2013 it was merged with Ruivães, forming the União das Freguesias de Ruivães e Novais, with its seat in Ruivães, and Law no. 25-A/2025 restored the parish.<p>In 2011 it had 1,124 inhabitants.
