Abraveses
Sign in to saveAbraveses is a Freguesia in the municipality (concelho) of Viseu, in the Portuguese central subregion of Dão-Lafões. The population in 2011 was 8,539, in an area of 12.23 km². Abraveses lies north of the centre of the city of Viseu, intimately linked to the historic settlement, and located along an extensive connection between Viseu-Castro Daire and Viseu-São Pedro do Sul.
Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- parish
- Portuguese subdivision.official_name
- Abraveses
- Portuguese subdivision.image_shield
- VIS-abraveses.png
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Centro
- Portuguese subdivision.CIM
- Viseu Dão Lafões
- Portuguese subdivision.district
- Viseu
- Portuguese subdivision.municipality
- Viseu
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total
- 12.23
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2011
- Portuguese subdivision.population_total
- 8539
- Portuguese subdivision.area_code
- 232
- Portuguese subdivision.postal_code
- 3515
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- freguesia of Portugal
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Viseu
- Area
- 11.95
- Elevation
- 528
- Image
- Pelourinho de Abravezes - Portugal (25923167128).jpg
- Dialing code
- 232
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- postal code
- 3515
- Commons category
- Abraveses
- P8168
- VH
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- History
- 20th century
- Geography
- References
Abraveses is a Freguesia in the municipality (concelho) of Viseu, in the Portuguese central subregion of Dão-Lafões. The population in 2011 was 8,539, in an area of 12.23 km². Abraveses lies north of the centre of the city of Viseu, intimately linked to the historic settlement, and located along an extensive connection between Viseu-Castro Daire and Viseu-São Pedro do Sul.
==History== Abraveses has historically been at the crossroads that linked Viseu and Porto, through Ribeira, Lava and Abraveses until Moselos, Travanca, Bodiosa, Gumiei and São Pedro do Sul. The Roman road split near Pedro do Sul, to the Minho and Braga. But, the early settlement was also near the prehistoric castros of Santa Luzia and Senhora do Castro. Monte de Santa Luzia, where the early castro was located, was until the 19th century called Monte de São Gens, referring to the saint to which the chapel was devoted.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Abraveses” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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