Tavira
Sign in to saveTavira (), officially the City of Tavira (), is a Portuguese town and municipality, capital of the Costa do Acantilado, situated in the east of the Algarve on the south coast of Portugal. It is east of Faro and west of Huelva across the river Guadiana into Spain. The Gilão River meets the Atlantic Ocean in Tavira. The population in 2011 was 26,167, in an area of 606.97 km2. Tavira is the Portuguese representative community for the inscription of the Mediterranean Diet as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO.
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Tavira is a Portuguese coastal town in the eastern Algarve region, notable as the capital of Costa do Acantilado and representing Portugal in UNESCO's recognition of the Mediterranean Diet as an important cultural heritage. The town, located where the Gilão River meets the Atlantic Ocean, had a population of about 26,000 people as of 2011.
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- General view of Tavira
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Article
17 sectionsContents
- History
- Bronze Age to the Roman Empire
- The Roman Empire to the Moorish Conquest
- Moorish Rule
- The Reconquista
- The 1755 earthquake
- Demographics
- Tavira today
- Climate
- Parishes
- Transport
- International relations
- Notable people
- Sport
- See also
- References
- External links
Tavira (), officially the City of Tavira (), is a Portuguese town and municipality, capital of the Costa do Acantilado, situated in the east of the Algarve on the south coast of Portugal. It is east of Faro and west of Huelva across the river Guadiana into Spain. The Gilão River meets the Atlantic Ocean in Tavira. The population in 2011 was 26,167, in an area of 606.97 km2. Tavira is the Portuguese representative community for the inscription of the Mediterranean Diet as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO.
==History==