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Vilar De Mouros
Vilar de Mouros is a civil parish (" freguesia") in the municipality of Caminha Caminha () is a municipality in the north-west of Portugal, 21 km north from Viana do Castelo, located in the Viana do Castelo District. The population in 2011 was 16,684, in an area of 136.52 km². Caminha is subdivided into 14 civil pa ..., Portugal. The population in 2011 was 753,Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 10.38 km2. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norte Region, Portugal
The North Region ( pt, Região do Norte ) or Northern Portugal is the most populous region in Portugal, ahead of Lisbon, and the third most extensive by area. The region has 3,576,205 inhabitants according to the 2017 census, and its area is with a density of 173 inhabitants per square kilometre. It is one of five regions of Mainland Portugal ( NUTS II subdivisions). Its main population center is the urban area of Porto, with about one million inhabitants; it includes a larger political metropolitan region with 1.8 million, and an urban-metropolitan agglomeration with 2.99 million inhabitants, including Porto and neighboring cities, such as Braga, Guimarães and Póvoa de Varzim. The Commission of Regional Coordination of the North (CCDR-N) is the agency that coordinates environmental policies, land-use planning, cities and the overall development of this region, supporting local governments and associations. Northern Portugal is a culturally varied region. It is a land of dense ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alto Minho
The Comunidade Intermunicipal do Alto Minho () is an administrative division in northern Portugal. It is situated between the Minho River and Lima River. It was created in October 2008. Since January 2015, Alto Minho is also a NUTS3 subregion of Norte Region, that covers the same area as the intermunicipal community. Instituto Nacional de Estatística, 18 March 2015 The main town of the intermunicipal community is [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viana Do Castelo District
The Viana do Castelo District ( pt, Distrito de Viana do Castelo ) is a district located in the northwest of Portugal, bordered on the north by Spain (Galicia) and on the south by Braga District. It has an area of and a population of 252,011 (2006), for a density of 111.8 inhabitants/km2. The district capital is the city of Viana do Castelo. Municipalities The district is composed of ten municipalities: * Arcos de Valdevez Municipality * Caminha Municipality * Melgaço Municipality * Monção Municipality * Paredes de Coura Municipality * Ponte da Barca Municipality * Ponte de Lima Municipality Ponte de Lima () is the oldest ''vila'' (chartered town, head of a municipality) in Portugal. It is part of the district of Viana do Castelo. The population in 2011 was 43,498, in an area of 320.25 km2. The town proper has about 2,800 inhabit ... * Valença Municipality * Viana do Castelo Municipality * Vila Nova de Cerveira Municipality List of Parliamentary Representative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caminha
Caminha () is a municipality in the north-west of Portugal, 21 km north from Viana do Castelo, located in the Viana do Castelo District. The population in 2011 was 16,684, in an area of 136.52 km². Caminha is subdivided into 14 civil parishes. The parish Vilar de Mouros is well known for the oldest rock festival in Portugal. The seat of the municipality is the town (or ''vila'' in Portuguese) of Caminha, with 2,500 inhabitants. The town is on the coastal part of the Portuguese Way path of the Camino de Santiago. The present Mayor is Luís Miguel da Silva Mendonça Alves. The municipal holiday is Easter Monday. General information Caminha is located 2 km from the Atlantic Ocean, on the southern side of the Minho estuary, where this river is met by the smaller and meandering Coura. Here the Minho reaches its widest point (about 2 km) and marks the border between Portugal and Galiza. The highly scenic area, with the wide estuary marked by low-tide sandbars, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freguesia
''Freguesia'' (), usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. It is also the designation for local government jurisdictions in the former Portuguese overseas territories of Cape Verde and Macau (until 2001). In the past, was also an administrative division of the other Portuguese overseas territories. The ''parroquia'' in the Spanish autonomous communities of Galicia and Asturias is similar to a ''freguesia''. A ''freguesia'' is a subdivision of a ''município'' (municipality). Most often, a parish takes the name of its seat, which is usually the most important (or the single) human agglomeration within its area, which can be a neighbourhood or city district, a group of hamlets, a village, a town or an entire city. In cases where the seat is itself divided into more than one parish, each one takes the name of a landmark within its area or of the patron saint from the usually co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coura (Paredes De Coura)
Coura is a civil parish in the municipality of Paredes de Coura Paredes de Coura () is a municipality in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 9,198, in an area of 138.19 km2. The municipality is located in the district of Viana do Castelo. The present Mayor is Prof. Vitor Paulo Pereira, elected by the Soc ..., Portugal. The population in 2011 was 374, in an area of 6.59 km2. References Freguesias of Paredes de Coura {{VianadoCastelo-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilar De Mouros Festival
The Vilar de Mouros Festival, currently named EDP Vilar de Mouros for sponsorship reasons, is a music festival that takes place in Vilar de Mouros, Caminha, Viana do Castelo district in northwestern Portugal. It is the oldest rock festival in Portugal and in the Iberian Peninsula. Its 1971 edition, the first as a rock festival, has been called the "Portuguese Woodstock". Since 2016, it is organized by the event company Surprise & Expectation. History Beginnings as a folk festival (1965-1968) The Vilar de Mouros Festival was created in 1965 as an event for traditional folk music from the Alto Minho and Galicia regions. It was founded by António Barge, a medical doctor born and raised in Vilar de Mouros. In the following two years, the festival was organized annually and kept its focus on traditional folk music. In 1968, Barge decided to expand its musical scope and invited artists outside of the region. Folk singer-songwriter José Afonso and guitarist Carlos Paredes were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
