Seia
Sign in to saveSeia () is a municipality in Guarda District in Portugal. The population in 2021 was 21,755, in an area of . Its urban population is about 7,000. Seia was elevated to city status on 3 July 1986. The municipality is situated on the northwestern slope of Serra da Estrela, the highest mountain range in mainland Portugal, with a top height of 1993 meters. The present Mayor is António Luciano Silva Ribeiro, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is July 3. Seia has an annual cinema festival called CineEco that focuses on films with ecological and natural themes.
Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- municipality
- Portuguese subdivision.official_name
- Seia
- Portuguese subdivision.image_flag
- Pt-sei3.png
- Portuguese subdivision.flag_border
- no
- Portuguese subdivision.image_shield
- SEI1.png
- Portuguese subdivision.image_skyline
- Seia_-_Portugal_%28247720203%29.jpg
- Portuguese subdivision.image_caption
- Urban area of Seia
- Portuguese subdivision.map_caption
- Interactive map of Seia
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Centro
- Portuguese subdivision.CIM
- Beiras e Serra da Estrela
- Portuguese subdivision.district
- Guarda
- Portuguese subdivision.leader_party
- PS
- Portuguese subdivision.leader_name
- António Luciano Silva Ribeiro
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total_km2
- 453.69
- Portuguese subdivision.population_total
- 21,755
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2021
- Portuguese subdivision.parishes
- 21
- Portuguese subdivision.holiday
- July 3
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Seia () is a municipality in Guarda District in Portugal. The population in 2021 was 21,755, in an area of . Its urban population is about 7,000. Seia was elevated to city status on 3 July 1986. The municipality is situated on the northwestern slope of Serra da Estrela, the highest mountain range in mainland Portugal, with a top height of 1993 meters. The present Mayor is António Luciano Silva Ribeiro, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is July 3. Seia has an annual cinema festival called CineEco that focuses on films with ecological and natural themes.
==Geography== The municipality is limited to the north by the municipalities of Nelas and Mangualde, to the northeast by Gouveia, to the east by Manteigas, to the southeast by Covilhã, to the southwest by Arganil and to the west by Oliveira do Hospital. In this municipality is located the highest point in mainland Portugal, Torre, in Serra da Estrela, with 1,993 meters of altitude. The municipality of Seia covers a large part of Serra da Estrela and is also the only one in Portugal where there is a natural ski resort, Vodafone Ski Resort, located within the limits of the parish of Loriga.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Seia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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