Little Portugal, San Jose Little Portugal, San Jose Little Portugal is a historic neighborhood of San Jose, California, in East San Jose and historically the center of San Jose's Portuguese-American community. Little Portugal is home to numerous Portuguese businesses, including Adega, San Jose's only Michelin starred restaurant, Portuguese social clubs, and the Five Wounds Portuguese National Church. Portuguese immigrants to California have historically come from the Azores, rather than from Mainland Portugal, and were traditionally farmers. Portuguese settlers came to the Santa Clara Valley beginning in the 1850's. The Mexican Heritage Plaza is within the neighborhood. In the mid-2010s, the Urban Displacement Project at
San Jose State Spartans State's most played opponent in the Mountain West Conference for college football and college basketball. Fresno State and San Jose State first started playing each other as members of the California Coast Conference in the 1920s. San Jose State also has a natural athletics rivalry with the Stanford Cardinal of Stanford University, due in large part to the two school's geographic proximity. The approximate physical distance between the two universities is 23 miles. Additionally, San Jose State and Stanford are each known for having a large alumni workforce presence in Silicon Valley. The two schools first played each other in