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Peniche

Official website (https://www.cm-peniche.pt/)

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Also known as Peniche Municipality

municipality in Portugal

Key facts

Country
Portugal
Region
Oeste e Vale do Tejo
Intermunic comm
Oeste
District
Leiria
President
Filipe Sales ( PSD )
Total
77.55 km (29.94 sq mi)
Density
340.8/km (882.7/sq mi)
Time zone
UTC+00:00 ( WET )
Summer dst
UTC+01:00 ( WEST )
Local holiday
Monday after the 1st Sunday of August
Website
www .cm-peniche .pt

via Wikipedia infobox

Official website

CM Peniche

Sítio oficial da Câmara Municipal de Peniche. Informação sobre o município, composição e atividades. Inclui uma agenda de eventos no concelho.

cm-peniche.pt

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Wikidata facts

Official name
Município de Peniche
Country
Portugal
Located in
Estremadura
Contains
Ferrel
Population
27753
Area
77.55
Body of water
Atlantic Ocean
Shares border with
Lourinhã
Official website
www.cm-peniche.pt
Image
Vista de Peniche.JPG
Dialing code
262
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twinned administrative body
Seia
Commons category
Peniche
topic's main category
Category:Peniche, Portugal
Commons gallery
Peniche
postal code
2520
time period
Toarcian
email address
mailto:[email protected]
phone number
+351-262-780-100
number of viewers/listeners
345206
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Encyclopedic overview

Peniche ( Portuguese pronunciation: [pɨˈniʃɨ] ), officially the City of Peniche (Portuguese: Cidade de Peniche), is a seaside municipality and a city in the Oeste region, in the historical province of Estremadura, and in the Leiria District. It has 26,431 inhabitants, in an area of 77.55 km. The city itself has a population of about 15,600 inhabitants. The present mayor is Filipe Sales, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The idiomatic expression Friend from Peniche, used to describe someone who wants to receive things at the expense of other without giving anything in return, comes from here.

History and landmarks

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peniche” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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