Castelo Viegas is a former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in the municipality of

Coimbra Coimbra (, also , , or ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2011 census was 143,397, in an area of . The fourth-largest urban area in Portugal after Lisbon, Porto Metropolitan Area, Porto, and Bra ...

, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 1,695, in an area of 7.11 km². On 28 January 2013 it merged with Santa Clara to form

Santa Clara e Castelo Viegas Santa Clara e Castelo Viegas is a civil parish in the municipality of Coimbra, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Santa Clara and Castelo Viegas Castelo Viegas is a former Freguesia, civil parish in the municipali ...

. The first mention is in 1122 with the name ''Castel Venegas''.

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Former parishes of Coimbra {{Coimbra-geo-stub