Cartaxo
Sign in to saveCartaxo () is a municipality in the district of Santarém in continental Portugal. The population in 2011 was 24,462, in an area of 158.17 km2. The urbanized centre of Cartaxo had a population of 9,507 in 2001.
Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- municipality
- Portuguese subdivision.official_name
- Cartaxo
- Portuguese subdivision.image_flag
- Pt-ctx3.png
- Portuguese subdivision.flag_border
- no
- Portuguese subdivision.image_shield
- CTX1.png
- Portuguese subdivision.image_skyline
- Primavera I.jpg
- Portuguese subdivision.image_caption
- View of Cartaxo
- Portuguese subdivision.mapframe
- yes
- Portuguese subdivision.mapframe zoom
- 9
- Portuguese subdivision.mapframe point
- none
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Oeste e Vale do Tejo
- Portuguese subdivision.CIM
- Lezíria do Tejo
- Portuguese subdivision.district
- Santarém
- Portuguese subdivision.parishes
- 6
- Portuguese subdivision.leader_name
- Pedro Ribeiro
- Portuguese subdivision.leader_party
- PS
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total
- 158.17
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2011
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Cartaxo () is a municipality in the district of Santarém in continental Portugal. The population in 2011 was 24,462, in an area of 158.17 km2. The urbanized centre of Cartaxo had a population of 9,507 in 2001.
==History== thumb|235px|left|The religious procession during the festival of Nossa Senhora da Graça In written and oral history, the territory of Cartaxo was an important point in the interior of the country. A Roman road, crossing Alenquer (Lerabriga), connected ancient Olissipo (Lisbon) to Santarém (Scallabis) through the territory of Cartaxo. Yet, before the Romans, other civilizations settled in the region, establishing castros in Vila Nova de São Pedro, Vale do Tejo or in the areas of Muge.