Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Planning region
- Lisbon and Tagus Valley
- Region
- Oeste e Vale do Tejo
- Intermunicipal community
- Oeste
- District
- Lisbon
- Historical province
- Estremadura
- Settlement
- Antiquity
- First charter
- 15 August 1250
- New charter
- 1 June 1510
- Elevation to city
- 3 February 1979
- Type
- Municipality
- Body
- Câmara Municipal of Torres Vedras
- Mayor
- Sérgio Galvão (Unidos por Torres Vedras ( Ind. - PSD - CDS–PP - Volt )
- President of the assembly
- Helena Ferreira
- Total
- 407.15 km (157.20 sq mi)
- City proper ine
- 29.01 km (11.20 sq mi)
- Density
- 204.04/km (528.46/sq mi)
- City proper ine density
- 673.1/km (1,743/sq mi)
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Encyclopedic overview
Torres Vedras ( European Portuguese: [ˈtoʁɨʒ ˈvɛðɾɐʃ] ) is a medium-sized municipality and city in the West area of the Oeste e Vale do Tejo region of Portugal, located approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of the national and district capital, Lisbon. Historically a part of Estremadura, it is the most populous municipality of the Oeste intermunicipal community, with 83 072 residents at the time of the 2021 Census, in an area of 40,715 square kilometres (15,720 sq mi).
Often locally shortened to just Torres, it is a settlement with over a thousand years of history, it is most known as the namesake of the Lines of Torres Vedras during the Peninsular War, as well as its Atlantic coastline popular in the Summer and its yearly Carnival, self-titled "the Most Portuguese in Portugal". Its territory is also home to a strong agricultural presence primarily linked to its vineyards and fruit production. It was, alongside neighbouring Alenquer, the European City of Wine in 2018.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Torres Vedras” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.