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Torres Novas. / 39.467°N 8.533°W / 39.467; -8.533. Torres Novas ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈtoʁɨʒ ˈnɔvɐʃ] ⓘ) is a Portuguese municipality in the district of Santarém, in the Médio Tejo of the Oeste e Vale do Tejo region. The population of the municipality was approximately 36,717 (from the 2011 census), in an area that ...
Castle of Torres Novas. Coordinates: 39°28′48″N 8°32′26″W. Torres Novas Castle. The Castle of Torres Novas ( Portuguese: Castelo de Torres Novas) is a medieval castle in the civil parish of Torres Novas (São Pedro), Lapas e Ribeira Branca, municipality of Torres Novas, Portuguese district of Santarém. [citation needed] It is ...
This is a list of municipalities in Portugal which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
Castelo de Torres Vedras is a castle in Torres Vedras, Portugal. Characterized by a mix of Gothic and Manueline features, it is classified by IGESPAR as a Site of Public Interest. History. Use of the castle area goes back to Roman times as evidenced by the existence of two Roman cisterns, tombstones, coins and other artifacts.
Arms of the Lencastres, Dukes of Aveiro. The Dukes of Torres Novas (in Portuguese & Spanish Duque de Torres Novas) was an aristocratic Portuguese title granted by King Philip II of Portugal, also known as Philip III of Spain, by a royal decree of September 26, 1619, to George of Lencastre, 1st Duke of Torres Novas, who died before his parents, Juliana and Álvaro of Lencastre of Lencastre, 3rd ...
Álvaro Martins, also known as Álvaro Martins Homem, was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer alleged to have explored the western Atlantic and later the African coast. He is claimed to have accompanied João Vaz Corte-Real on an undocumented expedition to Terra Nova do Bacalhau (literally, "New Land of the Codfish") in the early 1470s, by Gaspar Frutuoso in his 1570s book Saudades da Terra.
This is a list of the municipalities of Portugal. Portugal is divided into 18 districts ( Portuguese: distritos) and 2 autonomous regions ( regiões autónomas ), Azores and Madeira. The districts and autonomous regions are further subdivided into 308 municipalities of Portugal ( municípios or concelhos ). Usually, a municipality is named ...
Cascais (European Portuguese pronunciation: [kɐʃˈkajʃ] ⓘ) is a town and municipality in the Lisbon District of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera.The municipality has a total of 214,158 inhabitants [1] in an area of 97.40 km 2. [2]