Lousada (European Portuguese pronunciation: [loˈzaðɐ] ⓘ) is a town and municipality of the Porto district, in northern Portugal.

[2] It includes the site of Ancient Magnetum (Portuguese Magneto), in the civil parish Meinedo, which briefly was a short-lived Suebi-Galician bishopric and is now a Latin Catholic titular see.

In 569, as Diocese of Magnetum (Latin) / Magneto (Curiate Italiano and Portuguese) / Magneten(sis) (Latin adjective) was established on territory of the Kingdom of the Suebi in Galicia, split off from the Archdiocese of Braga, its apparent Metropolitan.

It has had the following incumbents, of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank with an archiepiscopal (current) exception : The municipality of Lousada is subdivided into the following Freguesias 'civil parishes) :[3] This circuit has been used several times for the European autocross championship and it is traditionally the circuit where the Portuguese round of the FIA European Championship for rallycross drivers takes place.

Rui Pedro Teixeira Mendonça went missing on March 4, 1998 in Lousada, Portugal.