Fontanelas
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gouveia and Azenhas do Mar.
Gouveia
Hamlet
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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.
Azenhas do Mar
Hamlet
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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.
Praia das Maçãs
Neighborhood
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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 3½ km southwest of Fontanelas.
Fontanelas
- Type: Hamlet with 6,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Portugal
- Category: locality
- Location: São João das Lampas e Terrugem, Sintra, Lisbon District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
38.84722° or 38° 50′ 50″ northLongitude
-9.43719° or 9° 26′ 14″ westPopulation
6,000Elevation
129 metres (423 feet)Open location code
8CCGRHW7+V4OpenStreetMap ID
node 1118196867OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2268126Wikidata ID
Q5465145
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Portuguese—“Fontanelas” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Fontanelas”
- Portuguese: “Fontanelas”
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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 “Fontanelas”. Photo: GualdimG, CC BY-SA 4.0.