Gouveia
Gouveia is a village located in Sintra Municipality, next to the town of Fontanelas, Portugal. Gouveia is known as the aldeia em verso, because its signs containing the names of the streets always carry a stanza.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 200 residents
- Description: village in São João das Lampas, Sintra
- Also known as: “Gouveia, Sintra”
Places of Interest
Highlights include São Mamede de Janas Chapel and Praia da Aguda.
São Mamede de Janas Chapel
Church
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São Mamede de Janas Chapel is a church.
Praia da Aguda
Beach
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Praia da Aguda is a beach, which is situated 2½ km northwest of Gouveia.
Praia do Magoito
Beach
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Praia do Magoito is a beach, which is situated 3 km northwest of Gouveia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fontanelas and Azenhas do Mar.
Fontanelas
Hamlet
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Fontanelas is a small town located in the civil parish of São João das Lampas, municipality of Sintra, Portugal. Fontanelas is situated just next to the seaside town of Azenhas do Mar.
Azenhas do Mar
Hamlet
Photo: F Mira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Azenhas do Mar is a seaside village in the civil parish of Colares, Sintra, Portugal. It is situated on a cliff along the Atlantic Ocean, about 30 km northwest of Lisbon, within the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park. Azenhas do Mar is situated 3 km west of Gouveia.
Praia das Maçãs
Neighborhood
Photo: Rúdisicyon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sintra is a town in Greater Lisbon, Estremadura, Portugal. Its spectacular setting, 28 km from Lisbon, houses a Royal Palace, used by generations of Portuguese royalty prior to the 1910 revolution. Praia das Maçãs is situated 4 km southwest of Gouveia.
Gouveia
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: S. Maria, S. Miguel, S. Martinho e S. Pedro de Penaferrim, Sintra, Lisbon District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
38.84223° or 38° 50′ 32″ northLongitude
-9.4277° or 9° 25′ 40″ westPopulation
200Elevation
136 metres (446 feet)Open location code
8CCGRHRC+VWOpenStreetMap ID
node 2234603046OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2267581Wikidata ID
Q16896662
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In Other Languages
“Gouveia” goes by many names.
- Portuguese: “Gouveia”
- “Gouveia”
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Highlights include Capela de Nossa Senhora de Belém and União Recreativa e Desportiva de Fontanelas e Gouveia.
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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 “Gouveia”. Photo: GualdimG, CC BY-SA 4.0.