Fóia
With an elevation of 902 metres and a topographic prominence of 739 metres, Fóia is the highest mountain of Algarve, Portugal. It is part of the Serra de Monchique range and is located at within Monchique parish.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Alchemist-hp, FAL.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 902 metres
- Description: mountain
- Also known as: “Cerro dos Marocos”, “Foia”, “Foya”, and “Serra de Monchique”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Monchique Town Hall and Convento de Nossa Senhora do Desterro.
Convento de Nossa Senhora do Desterro
Monastery
Photo: Peter Broster, CC BY 2.0.
Convento de Nossa Senhora do Desterro is a monastery.
Igreja matriz de Monchique
Church
Photo: Martin Robson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Igreja matriz de Monchique is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Caldas de Monchique and Marmelete.
Caldas de Monchique
Hamlet
Photo: Bextrel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Caldas de Monchique is a spa town in the Monchique Mountains in the Algarve region of Portugal. It has been famous since Roman times for its waters, which supposedly have healing properties.
Marmelete
Village
Photo: RHaworth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Marmelete is a village and a freguesia in the concelho of Monchique. The population in 2011 was 787, in an area of 139.91 km².
Alferce
Village
Alferce is a freguesia in the Monchique Municipality. The population in 2011 was 441, in an area of 96.12 km². Lies in this area remains of a medieval fortress from Muslim rule in Portugal known in Islamic sources as حصن المرجيق - Monchique fortress. Alferce is situated 10 km east of Fóia.
Fóia
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Monchique, Faro District, Algarve, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.3156° or 37° 18′ 56″ northLongitude
-8.59644° or 8° 35′ 47″ westElevation
902 metres (2,959 feet)Open location code
8C9H8C83+6COpenStreetMap ID
node 5584331346OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Fóia” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Fóia”
- Aragonese: “Fóia”
- Arpitan: “Fóia”
- Asturian: “Fóia”
- Basque: “Fóia”
- Bavarian: “Fóia”
- Breton: “Fóia”
- Bulgarian: “Фоиа”
- Catalan: “Fóia”
- Cebuano: “Foia”
- Corsican: “Fóia”
- Croatian: “Fóia”
- Czech: “Fóia”
- Danish: “Fóia”
- Dutch: “Foia”
- Dutch: “Fóia”
- Esperanto: “Fóia”
- Estonian: “Fóia”
- Finnish: “Fóia”
- French: “Alto da Fóia”
- French: “Fóia”
- Friulian: “Fóia”
- Galician: “Fóia”
- German: “Fóia”
- Hebrew: “פויה”
- Hungarian: “Fóia”
- Icelandic: “Fóia”
- Ido: “Fóia”
- Indonesian: “Fóia”
- Interlingua: “Fóia”
- Interlingue: “Fóia”
- Irish: “Fóia”
- Italian: “Alto da Fóia”
- Italian: “Fóia”
- Japanese: “フォーイア山”
- Kongo: “Fóia”
- Ligurian: “Fóia”
- Limburgan: “Fóia”
- Lithuanian: “Foja”
- Low German: “Fóia”
- Luxembourgish: “Fóia”
- Malagasy: “Fóia”
- Malay: “Fóia”
- Minangkabau: “Fóia”
- Narom: “Fóia”
- Neapolitan: “Fóia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fóia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fóia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Foia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Fóia”
- Picard: “Fóia”
- Piemontese: “Fóia”
- Polish: “Fóia”
- Portuguese: “Foia”
- Portuguese: “Fóia”
- Romanian: “Fóia”
- Romansh: “Fóia”
- Russian: “Фойя (гора)”
- Russian: “Фойя”
- Sardinian: “Fóia”
- Scots: “Fóia”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fóia”
- Serbian: “Fóia”
- Sicilian: “Fóia”
- Slovak: “Fóia”
- Slovenian: “Fóia”
- Spanish: “Foia”
- Spanish: “Fóia”
- Swahili: “Fóia”
- Swedish: “Fóia”
- Swiss German: “Fóia”
- Ukrainian: “Фойя”
- Venetian: “Fóia”
- Vietnamese: “Fóia”
- Vlaams: “Fóia”
- Volapük: “Fóia”
- Walloon: “Fóia”
- Welsh: “Fóia”
- Wolof: “Fóia”
- Zulu: “Fóia”
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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 “Fóia”. Photo: Alchemist-hp, FAL.