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Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Lisbon
- Metropolitan area
- Lisbon
- District
- Lisbon
- President
- Hugo Luís ( PSD )
- Total
- 291.66 km (112.61 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 115 m (377 ft)
- Density
- 262.93/km (680.98/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+00:00 ( WET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+01:00 ( WEST )
- Patron
- Santo André
- Website
- www .cm-mafra .pt
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Mafra
Sítio oficial da Câmara Municipal de Mafra. Informação sobre o município, composição e atividades. Inclui uma agenda de eventos no concelho.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Portugal
- Official name
- Mafra
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Grande Lisboa Subregion
- Contains
- Encarnação
- Population
- 76685
- Area
- 291.65
- Elevation
- 115
- Shares border with
- Sintra
- Official website
- www.cm-mafra.pt
- Image
- Palácio Nacional de Mafra.jpg
- Dialing code
- 261
- Patron saint
- Andrew the Apostle
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- different from
- Mafra
- topic's main category
- Category:Mafra, Portugal
- Commons category
- Mafra
- twinned administrative body
- Mindelo
- category for people born here
- Category:People from Mafra, Portugal
- postal code
- 2640
- native label
- Mafra
- inception
- 1189-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Mafra, Portugal
- P8168
- Joachim Burmeister
- P11012
- Conneux
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- number of viewers/listeners
- 305103
Sources (13)
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Encyclopedic overview
Mafra ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmafɾɐ] ) is a city and a municipality in the district of Lisbon, on the west coast of Portugal, and part of the urban agglomeration of the Greater Lisbon subregion. The population in 2011 was 76,685, in an area of 291.66 km.
It is mostly known for the sumptuous Mafra National Palace inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Built in the baroque style, the Mafra National Palace also inspired Portuguese Nobel Prize laureate José Saramago to write his novel Baltasar and Blimunda (Memorial do Convento). Other points of interest around the municipality include the Tapada Nacional de Mafra (also part of the UNESCO site), an enclosed wildlife and game reserve, and Ericeira's World Surf Reserve, the second in the world.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mafra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.