Alverca do Ribatejo

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Alverca do Ribatejo
coat of arms map
Coat of arms of Alverca do Ribatejo
Alverca do Ribatejo (Portugal)
Alverca do Ribatejo
Basic data
Region : Lisboa
Sub-region : Lisbon metropolitan area
District : Lisbon
Concelho : Vila Franca de Xira
Coordinates : 38 ° 54 ′  N , 9 ° 2 ′  W Coordinates: 38 ° 54 ′  N , 9 ° 2 ′  W
Residents: 31,063 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 19.36 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 1604 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 2615
politics
Mayor : Afonso Lourenço Costa
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Alverca do Ribatejo
Rua Dr. Miguel Bombarda, nº 23
2615-125 Alverca do Ribatejo

Alverca is a Portuguese municipality ( freguesia ) and city ( Cidade ) in the district of Vila Franca de Xira . The community is 19.4 km² and has 31,063 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). For about two decades, Alverca has been developing into a suburb of Lisbon due to its favorable location on the Linha do Norte railway line and is now part of the capital's suburb .

Alverca was declared a city on August 9, 1990.

In Alverca there is a famous aviation museum, an old church from 1687 and a new church called Igreja dos Pastorinhos from the 21st century. This church is known for its carillon. At the Aviation Museum, one of two branches of the Força Aérea Portuguesa (FAP) Museum in Sintra, there is a former military airfield, one of the oldest in Portugal, but which is no longer used as such. Nonetheless, non-flying units of the FAP still used part of the site. The state aviation company OGMA also has a plant here; repairs are also carried out on aircraft on the premises of the Alverca military airfield .

The town of A-dos-Melros belongs to the city .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  2. ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu