Fontoura
Sign in to saveFontoura is a civil parish (freguesia) in the municipality of Valença, in northern Portugal, on the southern boundary of Paredes de Coura. The population in 2011 was 751, in an area of 9.17 km². There were 668 registered voters on 31 December 2003.
Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- parish
- Portuguese subdivision.official_name
- Fontoura
- Portuguese subdivision.image_skyline
- Igreja de Fontoura.jpg
- Portuguese subdivision.image_caption
- Parochial church
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Norte
- Portuguese subdivision.CIM
- Alto Minho
- Portuguese subdivision.district
- Viana do Castelo
- Portuguese subdivision.municipality
- Valença
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total
- 9.17
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2011
- Portuguese subdivision.population_total
- 751
- Portuguese subdivision.patron
- São Miguel
- Portuguese subdivision.area_code
- 251
- Portuguese subdivision.postal_code
- 4930
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- freguesia of Portugal
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Valença
- Area
- 9.13
- Image
- Igreja de Fontoura.jpg
- Dialing code
- 251
- Patron saint
- Archangel Michael
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- postal code
- 4930
- P8168
- Geoffrey Scott
- Commons category
- Fontoura
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Encyclopedic overview
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Fontoura is a civil parish (freguesia) in the municipality of Valença, in northern Portugal, on the southern boundary of Paredes de Coura. The population in 2011 was 751, in an area of 9.17 km². There were 668 registered voters on 31 December 2003.
==History== The parish's origins date back to the pre-Roman era; several archaeological artefacts were discovered in the area around Grove, that trace back to this period. In addition to the remains of ceramic pottery and ash/coal, the settlement, on a round hilltop, was assumed to be the site of a fortified castro structure.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fontoura” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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