Coimbra District
Penela Municipality
São Miguel, Santa Eufémia e Rabaçal

Penela

Penela is a municipality located in , in . It contains the town of Penela with about 3,300 inhabitants. The town's main tourist attraction is the Penela Castle.
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  • Type: Town with 1,030 residents
  • Description: municipality of Portugal
  • Also known as: “Penela Municipality”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tribunal de Comarca de Penela and Pelourinho de Penela.

Town hall
Photo: Threeohsix, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town hall.

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Photo: Adriao, CC BY 3.0.
is located in a Penela town in Penela Municipality in , Portugal. The castle was built on a hill dominating the area and used to be a stronghold protecting Coimbra in times of Reconquista.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Espinhal and Lamas.

Town
is a civil parish in the municipality of Penela, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 775, in an area of 29.38 square kilometres. is situated 4 km southeast of Penela.

Village
Photo: Hipersyl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village, which is situated 6 km north of Penela.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 7 km northeast of Penela.

Penela

Latitude
40.02944° or 40° 1′ 46″ north
Longitude
-8.39024° or 8° 23′ 25″ west
Population
1,030
Elevation
164 metres (538 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PT PNL
Open location code
8CGH2JH5+QW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25269213
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2736429
Wiki­data ID
Q576924
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Penela” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بينيلا”
  • Basque: “Penela”
  • Catalan: “Penela”
  • Cebuano: “Penela (kapital sa munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Penela”
  • Chechen: “Пенела”
  • Chinese: “Penela”
  • Chinese: “佩內拉”
  • Chinese: “佩内拉”
  • Dutch: “Penela”
  • Esperanto: “Penela”
  • French: “Penela”
  • French: “Pénéla”
  • Galician: “Penela”
  • German: “Penela”
  • Hungarian: “Penela”
  • Irish: “Penela”
  • Italian: “Penela”
  • Japanese: “ピネーラ”
  • Lombard: “Penela”
  • Malay: “Perbandaran Penela”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Penela”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Penela”
  • Polish: “Penela”
  • Portuguese: “Município de Penela”
  • Portuguese: “Penela”
  • Russian: “Пенела”
  • Spanish: “Penela”
  • Tatar: “Пенела”
  • Turkish: “Penela”
  • Ukrainian: “Пенела”
  • Vietnamese: “Penela”
  • Volapük: “Penela”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Penela”
  • Welsh: “Penela”
  • “Penela”

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