Grailheira
| Grailheira | ||||||
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Norte | |||||
| Sub-region : | Tâmega e Sousa | |||||
| District : | Viseu | |||||
| Concelho : | Cinfães | |||||
| Freguesia : | União das Freguesias de Alhões, Bustelo, Gralheira e Ramires | |||||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 0 ′ N , 7 ° 58 ′ W | |||||
| Height: | 1103 m | |||||
| Postal code : | 4690-300 | |||||
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| Website: | www.gralheira.net | |||||
Gralheira is a locality and former municipality in Portugal . It is the highest town in the Serra de Montemuro Mountains and one of the highest places in continental Portugal.
history
The place probably already existed in the Visigoth Empire . For a long time it was called Agralheira and belonged to the Ferreiros de Tendais district , as mentioned in its town charter of 1210. With the dissolution of the district in 1855, Gralheira became a parish of the Cinfães district.
As part of the municipal reorganization of Portugal , the municipalities of Gralheira, Ramires , Alhões and Bustelo were merged on September 29, 2013 to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Alhões, Bustelo, Gralheira e Ramires . Gralheira is the seat of this newly formed community.
administration
Gralheira was a community ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Cinfães , in the district of Viseu . It had 165 inhabitants on an area of 10.2 km² (as of June 30, 2011).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ History Gralheiras on www.gralheira.net , accessed on 15 March 2015
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014
- ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística