Official website (https://www.cm-peniche.pt/)
Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Oeste e Vale do Tejo
- Intermunic comm
- Oeste
- District
- Leiria
- President
- Filipe Sales ( PSD )
- Total
- 77.55 km (29.94 sq mi)
- Density
- 340.8/km (882.7/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+00:00 ( WET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+01:00 ( WEST )
- Local holiday
- Monday after the 1st Sunday of August
- Website
- www .cm-peniche .pt
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
CM Peniche
Sítio oficial da Câmara Municipal de Peniche. Informação sobre o município, composição e atividades. Inclui uma agenda de eventos no concelho.
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Encyclopedic overview
Peniche ( Portuguese pronunciation: [pɨˈniʃɨ] ), officially the City of Peniche (Portuguese: Cidade de Peniche), is a seaside municipality and a city in the Oeste region, in the historical province of Estremadura, and in the Leiria District. It has 26,431 inhabitants, in an area of 77.55 km. The city itself has a population of about 15,600 inhabitants. The present mayor is Filipe Sales, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The idiomatic expression Friend from Peniche, used to describe someone who wants to receive things at the expense of other without giving anything in return, comes from here.
History and landmarks
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Peniche” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.