Alvega
Sign in to saveAlvega is a former freguesia ("civil parish"), located in the municipality of Abrantes, in Santarém District, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Alvega e Concavada. The population in 2011 was 1,499, in an area of 55.33 km².
Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- parish
- Portuguese subdivision.name
- Alvega
- Portuguese subdivision.image_flag
- Pt-abtav1.gif
- Portuguese subdivision.image_shield
- ABT-alvega.png
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Oeste e Vale do Tejo
- Portuguese subdivision.CIM
- Médio Tejo
- Portuguese subdivision.district
- Santarém
- Portuguese subdivision.municipality
- Abrantes
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total_km2
- 55.33
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2011
- Portuguese subdivision.population_total
- 1499
- Portuguese subdivision.area_code
- 241
- Portuguese subdivision.dissolved
- 2013
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Alvega is a former freguesia ("civil parish"), located in the municipality of Abrantes, in Santarém District, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Alvega e Concavada. The population in 2011 was 1,499, in an area of 55.33 km².
==History== thumb|left|Alvega, 1980 thumb|235px|left|Alvega-Ortiga Railway Station, located on the other side of the Tagus On top of a hilltop encountered to the southwest of the confluence of the Tagus River with the Lampreia River, in the area of Barca de Bandos, are the ruins of a fortress. The vestiges of the surface area indicate the presence of the Phoenicians and Greeks.