Sabugal
Sign in to saveSabugal () is a city and a municipality in the District of Guarda, Portugal. A border municipality with Spain, the population of the municipality in 2011 was 12,544, in an area of 822.70 km2. The city proper, located along the Côa river, has a population of about 3,000 inhabitants. There is a castle in the city of Sabugal proper as well as other castles outside the urban centre in a number of places around the entire municipality of Sabugal. Those are the castles of Sortelha, Alfaiates, Vilar Maior and Vila do Touro. The municipal holiday is the Monday after Octave of Easter. It is also p
Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- municipality
- Portuguese subdivision.official_name
- Sabugal
- Portuguese subdivision.image_flag
- Pt-sbg_2005.png
- Portuguese subdivision.image_shield
- SBG_2005.png
- Portuguese subdivision.image_skyline
- Sabugal, Portugal.jpg
- Portuguese subdivision.image_caption
- Sabugal Castle
- Portuguese subdivision.map_caption
- Interactive map of Sabugal
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Centro
- Portuguese subdivision.CIM
- Beiras e Serra da Estrela
- Portuguese subdivision.district
- Guarda
- Portuguese subdivision.leader_party
- PSD
- Portuguese subdivision.leader_name
- António Robalo
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total_km2
- 822.70
- Portuguese subdivision.population_total
- 12,544
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2011
- Portuguese subdivision.parishes
- 30
- Portuguese subdivision.holiday
- Monday after Octave of Easter
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Sabugal () is a city and a municipality in the District of Guarda, Portugal. A border municipality with Spain, the population of the municipality in 2011 was 12,544, in an area of 822.70 km2. The city proper, located along the Côa river, has a population of about 3,000 inhabitants. There is a castle in the city of Sabugal proper as well as other castles outside the urban centre in a number of places around the entire municipality of Sabugal. Those are the castles of Sortelha, Alfaiates, Vilar Maior and Vila do Touro. The municipal holiday is the Monday after Octave of Easter. It is also place for the Sabugal Dam built in 2000 and the river beach of Devesa, both located in the Côa river. At an elevation of roughly 750 m (2460 ft) above sea level, Sabugal is among the highest cities in Portugal.
==History==