Faro District
Lagoa
Estômbar e Parchal

Parchal

Parchal is a town and a former civil parish in the municipality of Lagoa, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish . The population in 2011 was 4,019, in an area of 3.86 km2.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ferragudo halt and Câmara Municipal de Portimão.

Railway station
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Ferragudo is a halt on the Algarve Line in the Lagoa municipality, . It was opened on 15 February 1903, under the name Portimão. After the construction and opening of the Portimão Railway Bridge and , in 1922, the name was changed to Ferragudo.

Town hall
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is a town hall.

Pitch
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is the current stadium of Portimonense S.C. It is located in the centre of in the , and was opened in 1937 for local football club Portimonense S.C.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ferragudo and Portimão.

Town
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is a civil parish at the western border of the municipality of Lagoa. The population in 2011 was 1,973, in an area of 5.41 km2. serves mainly as a bedroom community for its much larger neighbour, the city of ; its residents routinely travel across the to work in the neighboring municipality.

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is the second biggest city in the , , and famous for its fresh fish restaurants, grilled sardines being the most famous dish. It's very close to one of the most well known beaches in the Algarve, Praia da Rocha, and there are numerous others nearby.

Town
is a town in the civil parish of , in the municipality of Lagoa, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 4,985, in an area of 24.21 km2. is situated 3 km east of Parchal.

Parchal

Latitude
37.13754° or 37° 8′ 15″ north
Longitude
-8.51769° or 8° 31′ 4″ west
Population
5,020
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
8C9H4FQJ+2W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 269173708
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2265180
Wiki­data ID
Q2341999
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Turkish—“Parchal” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Parchal”
  • Cebuano: “Parchal”
  • Chechen: “Паршал”
  • Chinese: “帕尔捨”
  • Chinese: “帕尔舍”
  • Chinese: “帕沙尔”
  • Chinese: “帕沙爾”
  • Chinese: “帕爾舍”
  • Dutch: “Parchal”
  • French: “Parchal”
  • German: “Parchal”
  • Irish: “Parchal”
  • Italian: “Parchal”
  • Japanese: “パルシャウ”
  • Japanese: “パルシャル”
  • Kazakh: “Паршал”
  • Malay: “Parchal”
  • Persian: “پارشال”
  • Portuguese: “Parchal”
  • Russian: “Паршал”
  • Spanish: “Parchal”
  • Swedish: “Parchal”
  • Tatar: “Паршал”
  • Turkish: “Parchal”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Parchal”. Photo: Pacanherros, CC BY-SA 3.0.