Macieira de Rates
Macieira de Rates is a Portuguese parish, located in the municipality of Barcelos. The population in 2011 was 2,083, in an area of 7.85 km2.- Type: Village with 2,080 residents
- Description: civil parish in Barcelos
- Also known as: “Macieira”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Monastery of Rates and Pillory of Rates.
Monastery of Rates
Church
Photo: PedroPVZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Monastery of Rates was a Benedictine monastery located in the parish of Rates in the municipality of Póvoa de Varzim, in Portugal. The part of the monastery that has survived to this day is the bell-tower and, most importantly, the Church dedicated to St Peter of Rates, mostly known as Romanesque Church of Rates, which is a national monument since 1910. Monastery of Rates is situated 3½ km southwest of Macieira de Rates.
Pillory of Rates
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pillory of Rates is situated 3½ km southwest of Macieira de Rates.
Igreja Paroquial de Balazar
Church
Igreja Paroquial de Balazar is a church, which is situated 4 km south of Macieira de Rates.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Courel and Gueral.
Courel
Village
Chorente, Góios, Courel, Pedra Furada e Gueral is a civil parish in the municipality of Barcelos, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Chorente, Góios, Courel, Pedra Furada and Gueral.
Gueral
Village
Chorente, Góios, Courel, Pedra Furada e Gueral is a civil parish in the municipality of Barcelos, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Chorente, Góios, Courel, Pedra Furada and Gueral.
Fontaínhas
Hamlet
Fontaínhas is a Portuguese village in the civil parish of Balazar in the district of Póvoa de Varzim. It is on the N206 road at the boundary with the parish of Rates. Fontaínhas is situated 3 km southwest of Macieira de Rates.
Macieira de Rates
- Categories: freguesia of Portugal and locality
- Location: Macieira de Rates, Barcelos, Braga District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
41.43805° or 41° 26′ 17″ northLongitude
-8.63316° or 8° 37′ 59″ westPopulation
2,080Elevation
78 metres (256 feet)Open location code
8CHHC9Q8+6POpenStreetMap ID
node 3082696912OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2738050Wikidata ID
Q1794382
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Macieira de Rates” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Macieira de Rates”
- Cebuano: “Macieira de Rates”
- Chechen: “Масиейра-ди-Ратиш”
- Chinese: “Macieira de Rates”
- Dutch: “Macieira de Rates”
- French: “Macieira de Rates”
- German: “Macieira de Rates”
- Kazakh: “Масиейра-ди-Ратиш”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Macieira de Rates”
- Portuguese: “Macieira de Rates”
- Russian: “Масиейра-ди-Ратиш”
- Spanish: “Macieira de Rates”
- Tatar: “Масиейра-ди-Ратиш”
- Turkish: “Macieira de Rates”
- Turkish: “Macieira de Sarnes”
- Ukrainian: “Масієйра-де-Ратеш”
- “Macieira de Rates”
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Notable Places Nearby
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