Sertã () is a municipality in
Castelo Branco District
Castelo Branco District ( pt, Distrito de Castelo Branco ) is located in Central Portugal. Its capital is Castelo Branco, which is now also its most populous city, overtaking Covilhã, which was once the largest city, in the late 2010s.
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in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 15,880,
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The present mayor is José Farinha Nunes, elected by the PSD PSD may refer to:
Educational bodies
* Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, a Pre-K to 12th grade school for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students, located in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* Philippine School Doha, a Filipino sch ...
. The municipal holiday is the June 24.
General information
Local sports club: Sertanense Futebol Clube
Sertanense Futebol Clube (), formerly Sertanense Foot-ball Club, is a Portuguese football club based in Sertã. Founded in 1934, it currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, holding home games at ''Campo de Jogos Dr. Marques dos Santos''.
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(mainly devoted to soccer, playing (2004-2005) the 3rd Division Championship).
Local newspaper: A Comarca da Sertã
''A Comarca da Sertã'' is a local newspaper published weekly in Sertã, Portugal
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(weekly)
Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 10 civil parishes (''freguesias
''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 ...
''):
Notable people
* Nuno Álvares Pereira
D. Nuno Álvares Pereira, O. Carm. (; 24 June 1360 – 1 November 1431) was a Portuguese general of great success who had a decisive role in the 1383-1385 Crisis that assured Portugal's independence from Castile. He later became a mystic ...
(born 1360 in Cernache de Bonjardim Cernache do Bonjardim is a former civil parish in the municipality of Sertã, central Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Cernache do Bonjardim, Nesperal e Palhais. The population in 2011 was 3,052, in an area of 71.59 km2. ...
- 1431) a Portuguese general, he became a mystic and was beatified
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by Pope Benedict XV
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, in 1918, and canonised
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by Pope Benedict XVI
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in 2009
* João Castel-Branco Goulão
João Augusto Castel-Branco Goulão ComIH (born 6 May 1954 in Cernache do Bonjardim, Portugal) is a Portuguese physician and the current national drug coordinator for Portugal. He is credited as being an architect of Portugal's drug policy est ...
(born 1954 in Cernache do Bonjardim) a physician and the current national drug coordinator for Portugal
References
Populated places in Castelo Branco District
Municipalities of Castelo Branco District
People from Sertã
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