Silveira () is a

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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 over ...

'') in the

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Torres Vedras Torres Vedras () is a concelho, municipality in the Portugal, Portuguese district of Lisbon (district), Lisbon, approximately north of the capital Lisbon. It is a strong agricultural region thanks to its vineyards, and has an intense commercial ...

in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,530,Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE)
Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 24.97 km².Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país
/ref> It is bordered by the parishes of São Pedro da Cadeira to the south,

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to the east, A dos Cunhados e Maceira to the north, and the

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to the west.

History

Silveira, a relatively modern parish, was detached from the parish of São Pedro da Cadeira and elevated to this status on October 1, 1926. Its first mayor was Antonino Gomes, an influential farmer from Casal da Espinheira, who was born in 1873 and died in 1951.

Geography

Occupying an area of 24.9 km², it lies between the green countryside, dotted with countless couples, and the blue and green tones of the Atlantic. It is bordered by the parishes of São Pedro da Cadeira to the south, Ponte do Rol to the east and A-dos-Cunhados to the north, and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean. The seat of the parish is twelve kilometers from the city of Torres Vedras, four from Santa Cruz Beach and one from the right bank of the river Sizandro. It was in this parish that Joaquim Agostinho, the most famous Portuguese cyclist, was born. The parish of Silveira has a significant number of couples scattered throughout the parish, accentuating its rurality, as well as the following localities: Boavista, Brejenjas, Caixeiros, Charneca, Casal Cochim,

Casalinhos de Alfaiata Casalinhos de Alfaiata is a hamlet in the parish of Silveira, in the municipality of Torres Vedras, Portugal. Joaquim Agostinho Joaquim Fernandes Agostinho, Order of Infante D. Henrique, OIH (7 April 1943 – 10 May 1984) was a Portuguese p ...

, Cerca, Santa Cruz, Secarias, Silveira and Praia Azul.

References

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