Viseu

Also known as Viseu Municipality

Viseu, officially the City of Viseu, is a city and municipality in the Central Region of Portugal and the capital of the district of the same name, with a population of 103,502 inhabitants in the entire municipality, and center of the Viseu Dão Lafões intermunicipal community, with 267,633 inhabitants.

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Viseu is a city in central Portugal that serves as the capital of the Viseu district and has a population of about 103,500 residents within the municipality itself. It plays an important administrative and regional role as the center of the Viseu Dão Lafões intermunicipal community, which encompasses a broader area of roughly 267,600 people.

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Key facts

Portuguese subdivision.type: municipality
Portuguese subdivision.name: Viseu
Portuguese subdivision.official_name: City of Viseu
Portuguese subdivision.image_flag: Bandeira de Viseu.jpg
Portuguese subdivision.flag_border: no
Portuguese subdivision.image_shield: COA of Viseu.svg
Portuguese subdivision.map_caption: Interactive map of Viseu
Portuguese subdivision.pushpin_map: Portugal#Europe
Portuguese subdivision.pushpin_relief: yes
Portuguese subdivision.region: Centro
Portuguese subdivision.CIM: Viseu Dão Lafões
Portuguese subdivision.district: Viseu
Portuguese subdivision.parishes: 25
Portuguese subdivision.leader_party: PS
Portuguese subdivision.leader_name: João Azevedo
Portuguese subdivision.area_total_km2: 507.10
Portuguese subdivision.population_total: 103502
Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of: 2024

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: municipality of Portugal
Official name: Município de Viseu
Demonym: Viseense
Country: Portugal
Located in: Viseu Dão Lafões (intermunicipal community)
Contains: Ranhados
Population: 99274
Area: 507.1
Elevation: 476
Time zone: UTC±00:00
Shares border with: São Pedro do Sul
Official website: www.cm-viseu.pt
Image: Nt-Viseu-Se de Viseu-traseira.jpg
Dialing code: 232
Patron saint: Theotonius

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contact page URL: www.cm-viseu.pt/pt/contatos
public holiday: patronal festival
twinned administrative body: Cascais
topic's main category: Category:Viseu
category for people born here: Q8049027
category of associated people: Category:People from Viseu
postal code: 3500–3519
Commons category: Viseu
Commons gallery: Viseu
P8168: Glevum
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
email address: mailto:[email protected]

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Settled during the period of the early Iberian Castro culture, the territory of Viseu was occupied by a series of other peoples including the Romans, Suebians, Visigoths and Moors. During the Roman occupation of Iberia, Viriathus, the rebel leader of the Lusitanians, is assumed to have lived for a time in the vicinity. During the Middle Ages, the city often served as a seat for Visigothic nobles (such as King Roderic), and based in the Chronica Gothorum is one of several probable birthplaces for Afonso Henriques, first King of Portugal.

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