Vila Franca de Xira (pron.IPA: ['vilɐ 'fɾɐ̃kɐ dɨ 'ʃiɾɐ]) is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 317.7 km² and a total population of 133,224 inhabitants. Situated on the west bank of the River Tagus, just 32 km north-east of the Portuguese capital Lisbon, Vila Franca de Xira is said to have been founded by French followers of Afonso Henriques around 1200. The town is mostly famous for its bull-running festivals in July and October. Bulls are raised in the salty marshlands of the Ribatejo, which is also a notable breeding ground for the magnificent Lusitano horse, esteemed for its quick reflexes and maneuverability. What to see. A number of brightly-coloured Portuguese bullfighting costumes are on display in the ethnographic museum on Praça de Touros. Nearby, the town's Misericórdia church features striking 18th-century azulejo glazed tiles. Nearby. 3 km south of Vila Franca de Xira lies the Lezíria Grande Equestrian Centre, where visitors can watch stylish displays of the impressive Lusitano horses. The centre also stages typical bullfighting spectacles in its outdoor bullring. Visitors can ride Lusitano horses and take dressage lessons at the Quinta de São Sebastião, a sprawling estate at Arruda dos Vinhos, 11 km west of Vila Franca de Xira. Image File history File links VFX1. ... Image File history File links LocalVilaFrancaDeXira. ... Lisboa is one of the 7 NUTS II regions of Portugal. ... Área Metropolitana de Lisboa (Lisbon Metropolitan Area, AML) is a territorial zone that includes 18 municipalities. ... Lisbon (Lisboa in Portuguese) is a district of Portugal. ... Political parties in Portugal lists political parties in Portugal. ... The Socialist Party ( Portuguese: Partido Socialista) is a political party of Portugal. ... A freguesia (pron. ... Location - Region Lisboa - Subregion Greater Lisbon - District or A.R. Lisbon Mayor Maria Luz Rosinha - Party PS Area 317. ... For other meanings see Ascension (disambiguation) The Ascension is one of the great feasts in the Christian liturgical calendar, and commemorates the bodily Ascension of Jesus into Heaven forty days after his resurrection from the dead. ... Look up pronunciation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) used in spoken human language. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ...
The municipality is composed of 11 parishes, and is located in the District of Lisbon. Lisbon (Lisboa in Portuguese) is a district of Portugal. ...
The present Mayor is Maria Luz Rosinha, elected by the Socialist Party. The Socialist Party ( Portuguese: Partido Socialista) is a political party of Portugal. ...
The coat of arms is gules, between two fleurs de lis or, a tower argent masoned sable and open of the same metal.
Other towns recieved it (Castelo de Vide, Constância, Nisa and Serpa) and two of them were meanwhile upgraded to city status (Moura and VilaFrancadeXira).
VilaFrancadeXira municipality had 106 880 inhabitants in 1990, and it is divided in 11 communes, covering 294 km
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