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Alcobaça
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municipality in Centro, Portugal
Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Oeste e Vale do Tejo
- Intermunic comm
- Oeste
- District
- Leiria
- President
- Hermínio Rodrigues ( PSD )
- Total
- 408.14 km (157.58 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 42 m (138 ft)
- Density
- 131.45/km (340.45/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+00:00 ( WET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+01:00 ( WEST )
- Postal code
- 2460, 2461, 2475
- Patron
- Saint Bernard
- Local holiday
- 20 August
- Website
- www .cm-alcobaca .pt
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Alcobaça ( Portuguese pronunciation: [alkuˈβasɐ] ) is a Portuguese city and municipality in the intermunicipal community Oeste and the region Oeste e Vale do Tejo, in the historical province of Estremadura, and in the Leiria District. The city grew along the valleys of the rivers Alcoa and Baça, from which it derives its name. The municipality population in 2011 was 56,693, in an area of 408.14 square kilometres (157.58 mi). The city proper has a population of 15,800 inhabitants.
The city of Alcobaça became notable after the first king of Portugal, Afonso Henriques, decided to build a church to commemorate the Conquest of Santarém from the Moors in 1147. The church later evolved into the Monastery of Alcobaça, one of the most magnificent Gothic monuments in the country. In the church are the tombs of Pedro I of Portugal and his murdered mistress Inês de Castro. Over the centuries this monastery played an important role in shaping Portuguese culture.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alcobaça” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.