Alcantarilha
Alcantarilha | ||||||
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Basic data | ||||||
Region : | Algarve | |||||
Sub-region : | Algarve | |||||
District : | Faro | |||||
Concelho : | Silves | |||||
Coordinates : | 37 ° 8 ′ N , 8 ° 21 ′ W | |||||
Residents: | 2535 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
Surface: | 24.61 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
Population density : | 103 inhabitants per km² | |||||
politics | ||||||
Mayor : | João José Palma dos Santos | |||||
Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Alcantarilha Rua dos Bombeiros Voluntários 8365 Alcantarilha |
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Website: | www.jf-alcantarilha.pt |
Alcantarilha is a freguesia (municipality) in the concelho ( district ) of Silves .
2535 inhabitants live in an area of 24.6 km² (as of June 30, 2011). The population density is thus 103 inhabitants per km². The place was raised to a vila (small town) in 1999 .
Culture and sights
Buildings
- Castelo de Alcantarilha
- Igreja Matriz de Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Alcantarilha
the chapel by the church was built from hundreds of human skulls and thigh bones. Pechão has a similar ossuary .
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
- ↑ Survey on Vila , Portuguese, on cm-silves.pt, accessed on March 3, 2010
- ↑ Castle of Alcantarilha ( Memento from June 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese)
- ↑ Bone chapel next to the church ( memento from July 17, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Alcantarilha at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército