Vila de Sintra

City Coat of Arms
District	Lisbon
Mayor   - Party	Fernando Seara PSD
Area	316.7 km²
Population  - Total  - Density	363 749 207/km²
Parishes	20 parishes
Coordinates	38º47' N 9º22'W
Municipal holiday	Saint Peter June 29
Official website: http://www.cm-sintra.pt

Sintra (formerly Cintra) is a town northwest of Lisbon, Portugal, and the capital of the sea-side concelho (municipality) of the same name. The village has a population of 24,640 in 3 freguesias (parishes), while the concelho population, at 363,749 in 20 freguesias, is the second most populous in Portugal. Image File history File links Sintra Coat of arms Original file at:[1] File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A modern coat of arms is derived from the medi val practice of painting designs onto the shield and outer clothing of knights to enable them to be identified in battle, and later in tournaments. ... Image File history File links Sintra location original file at: http://pt. ... Districts There are 18 Districts (distritos, singular - distrito) in mainland Portugal: note: Territorial division in Portugal is currently in flux, because of planned decentralization. ... Lisbon (Lisboa in Portuguese) is a district of Portugal. ... A mayor (from the Latin maÄ«or, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Political parties in Portugal lists political parties in Portugal. ... The Social Democratic Party (Portuguese: Partido Social Democrata) is a political party in Portugal. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... A freguesia is a secondary local administrative unit in Portugal and the former Portuguese overseas province of Macao. ... District Lisbon Mayor   - Party Fernando Seara PSD Area 316. ... This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... Saint Peter, portrayed by Peter Paul Rubens in a papal chasuble and pallium holding keys, was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus and the first Pope of the Catholic Church. ... June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. ... District Lisbon Mayor   - Party Pedro Santana Lopes PSD Area 84. ... A concelho is the primary local administrative unit in Portugal (and other Lusophone countries). ... A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... A freguesia is a secondary local administrative unit in Portugal and the former Portuguese overseas province of Macao. ... A parish is a type of administrative subdivision. ...

A UNESCO World Heritage Site on account of its 19th century Romantic architecture, it is a major tourist attraction, with many day-trippers visiting from nearby Lisbon. Attractions include the Palácio da Pena (19th c.) and the Castelo dos Mouros (8th/9th c., reconstructed 19th c.) in the Serra de Sintra nature park, and the Palácio Nacional de Sintra (largely 15th/16th c.), in the village itself. UNESCO logo The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, commonly known as UNESCO, is a specialized agency of the United Nations system established in 1946. ... A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain range, lake, desert, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated for the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Romanticism was an artisic and intellectual movement in the history of ideas that originated in late 18th century Western Europe. ... The Castelo dos Mouros (Moorish Castle) is located in Sintra, Portugal. ... The Sintra Mountains or locally the Serra De Sintra is a mountain range in western Portugal. ...

Other major cities in the municipality are Algueirão-Mem Martins with 65,546, Agualva-Cacém with 55,762, Rio de Mouro with 46,023, Massamá with 28,174, Queluz with 27,910 and Monte Abraão with 22,039. Sintra is unique in the concelhos of Portugal in having the municipality seat in a village, despite the number of larger cities in the municipality. Massamá is a Portuguese freguesia (parish) in Sintra concelho (municipality), and a suburb of Lisbon. ... Queluz is a Portuguese parish in the district of Sintra. ...

Major activities in the area are commerce and tourism. Tourists are drawn by the cultural heritage in the village itself, the nature park of Serra de Sintra, the coastal beaches in the municipality and Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point of mainland Europe, which lies 18 kilometres west of Sintra. The lighthouse on Cabo da Roca Cabo da Roca (Cape Roca) is a cape that forms the westernmost point of Portugal, and hence the westernmost point of the European mainland. ... World map showing location of Europe When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ...

Some areas close to Lisbon are essentially residential suburbs already in conurbation with Amadora, Odivelas and Lisbon. Sintra's problems include major pendular movements to Lisbon, with terrible traffic during rush hour on the IC-19 road to Lisbon. A conurbation is an urban area comprising a number of cities or towns which, through population growth and expansion, have physically merged to form one continuous built up area. ... Amadora is a city and municipality (Portuguese: concelho or município) in Portugal, in the northwest of the Lisbon metropolitan area. ... Odivelas is a city, in the concelho (municipality) of Odivelas in the district of Lisbon, in Portugal. ...

Parishes

Sintra has 20 civil parishes: A freguesia is a secondary local administrative unit in Portugal and the former Portuguese overseas province of Macao. ...

• Agualva
• Algueirão - Mem Martins
• Almargem do Bispo
• Belas
• Cacém
• Casal de Cambra
• Colares
• Massamá
• Mira-Sintra
• Monte Abraão
• Montelavar
• Pêro Pinheiro
• Queluz
• Rio de Mouro
• Santa Maria e São Miguel (Sintra)
• São João das Lampas
• São Marcos
• São Martinho
• São Pedro de Penaferrim
• Terrugem

The town of Sintra, seen from the steps of the Palácio Nacional Algueirão - Mem Martins is a portuguese freguesia (parish) belonging to the concelho (municipality) of Sintra, with an area of 16,37 km² and 102 413 inhabitants (2004), having a density of about 3 821,4 hab/km². It was promoted from village to town in February 1 de 1988. ... Massamá is a Portuguese freguesia (parish) in Sintra concelho (municipality), and a suburb of Lisbon. ... Queluz is a Portuguese parish in the district of Sintra. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...	Palácio Nacional Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x900, 169 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Sintra ...	Castelo dos Mouros Image File history File links Sintra, Portugal. ...	View of Castelo dos Mouros Image File history File links Castle walls around Castelo dos Mouros, Sintra, Portugal Photo by Edyta Szczesniak File links The following pages link to this file: Sintra ...
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