Mercês (Lisbon)
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Lisboa | |||||
| Sub-region : | Lisbon metropolitan area | |||||
| District : | Lisbon | |||||
| Concelho : | Lisboa | |||||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 43 ′ N , 9 ° 9 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 4332 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 27 ha (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 16,044 inhabitants per km² | |||||
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| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Mercês Rua do Jasmim, 11 - 1º 1200-228 Lisboa |
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| Website: | www.jf-merces.pt | |||||
Mercês is a district and a former Portuguese municipality ( freguesia ) in the 1st Bairro of the capital Lisbon .
In the run-up to the administrative reform in 2013 , the municipalities of São Paulo , Encarnação , Santa Catarina and Mercês formed the new municipality of Misericórdia .
Sights and public facilities
- Igreja de Nossa Senhora das Mercês - baroque parish church
- Academia das Ciências - Academy of Sciences
- Tribunal Constitucional de Portugal - the Portuguese constitutional court in the former Pálacio Ratton
- Convento de Jesus - former Franciscan monastery and now a hospital
- Jardim do Príncipe Real - urban gardens
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
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Mercês at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército