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Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Norte
- Intermunic comm
- Cávado
- District
- Braga
- President
- Mário Constantino Lopes ( PSD )
- Total
- 378.90 km (146.29 sq mi)
- Density
- 308.68/km (799.48/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+00:00 ( WET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+01:00 ( WEST )
- Website
- https://www.cm-barcelos.pt
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Portugal
- Official name
- Município de Barcelos
- Demonym
- Barcelense
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Minho
- Contains
- Cristelo
- Population
- 116752
- Area
- 378.7
- Elevation
- 40
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Shares border with
- Vila Nova de Famalicão
- Official website
- www.cm-barcelos.pt
- Image
- Igreja Senhor da Cruz Barcelos.jpg
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- different from
- Barcelona
- Commons category
- Barcelos
- twinned administrative body
- Svishtov
- topic's main category
- Category:Barcelos, Portugal
- category for people born here
- Q8045238
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Barcelos, Portugal
- native label
- Barcelos
- inception
- 1140-00-00
- postal code
- 4750
- owner of
- Estádio Cidade de Barcelos
- public holiday
- patronal festival
- member of
- Creative Cities Network
- number of viewers/listeners
- 451389
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Encyclopedic overview
Barcelos ( Portuguese pronunciation: [bɐɾˈsɛluʃ] ) is a city and a municipality in Braga District in the Minho Province, in the north of Portugal. The city of Barcelos had 26,042 inhabitants in 2021, while the municipality had 116,959 inhabitants in 2024 across an area of 378.90 square kilometres (146.29 mi). With 61 parishes, it is the municipality with the highest number of parishes in the country. Barcelos lies on the Portuguese Way, a Christian pilgrimage route connecting to the Camino de Santiago.
It is known for the Rooster of Barcelos and for its textile and adobe industries, as well as its horseback riding events and "figurado" style of pottery, which are comical figurines with accentuated features of farmers, folk musicians, and nativity scene characters. Barcelos is part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as a Crafts and Folk Art City.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Barcelos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.