Melcões
Melcões is a village in União das freguesias de Cepões, Meijinhos e Melcões, Lamego, Viseu District and has about 125 residents. Melcões is situated nearby to the village Meijinhos, as well as near the town Lalim.Places of Interest
Highlights include Igreja paroquial, adro e cemitério de Meijinhos and Pelourinho de Britiande.
Igreja paroquial, adro e cemitério de Meijinhos
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Igreja paroquial, adro e cemitério de Meijinhos is a church.
Pelourinho de Britiande
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pelourinho de Britiande is situated 3½ km northeast of Melcões.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lalim and Lazarim.
Lalim
Town
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lalim is a civil parish in Lamego Municipality in the Viseu District of the Norte Region of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 729, in an area of 7.22 km².
Lazarim
Town
Lazarim is a town in Portugal. It is a parish of Lamego Municipality. The population in 2011 was 521, in an area of 16.54 km2.
Britiande
Town
Britiande is a town in Portugal. It is a commune of Lamego Municipality. The population in 2011 was 934, in an area of 4.80 km2. Britiande is situated 3 km northeast of Melcões.
Melcões
- Type: Village with 125 residents
- Description: former civil parish in Portugal
- Categories: former freguesia of Portugal and locality
- Location: União das freguesias de Cepões, Meijinhos e Melcões, Lamego, Viseu District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.04806° or 41° 2′ 53″ northLongitude
-7.8253° or 7° 49′ 31″ westPopulation
125Elevation
743 metres (2,438 feet)Open location code
8CHJ25XF+6VOpenStreetMap ID
node 2254778041OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2737747Wikidata ID
Q64680
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Satellite Map
Discover Melcões from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Melcões” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Melcões”
- Cebuano: “Melcões”
- Chechen: “Мелкойнш”
- Dutch: “Melcoes”
- Dutch: “Melcões”
- French: “Melcões”
- German: “Melcões”
- Kazakh: “Мелкойнш”
- Polish: “Melcões”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia de Melcões”
- Portuguese: “Melcões”
- Russian: “Мелкойнш”
- Spanish: “Melcoes”
- Spanish: “Melcões”
- Tatar: “Мелкойнш”
- Turkish: “Melcões”
- Turkish: “Melides”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Meijinhos and Salgueiral.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Igreja Paroquial de São Silvestre and Cemitério de Melcões.
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