Fonte Arcada e Oliveira
Fonte Arcada e Oliveira is a freguesia in the municipality of Póvoa de Lanhoso, northern Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Fonte Arcada e Oliveira.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Manuel Anastácio, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Village with 1,270 residents
- Description: former civil parish in Portugal
- Also known as: “Fonte Arcada” and “Freguesia de Fontarcada”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of Fontarcada and Calvos Oak.
Church of Fontarcada
Church
Photo: Manuel Anastácio, CC BY 3.0.
The Church of Fontarcada or Matriz de Fontarcada was a Romanesque monastic church to a Benedictine monastery founded in 1067, now the parish church of Fontarcada.
Calvos Oak
Photo: Joseolgon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Calvos Oak is a European oak located in the parish of Calvos, in Póvoa de Lanhoso, Portugal. It is estimated to be about 510 years old, as of 2015 it stands 30 m tall and had a diameter at breast height of 7.62 m with a canopy diameter of 37 m. Calvos Oak is situated 2½ km northwest of Fonte Arcada e Oliveira.
Estação lusitano-romana de Póvoa do Lanhoso
Archaeological site
Photo: Nmmacedo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Estação lusitano-romana de Póvoa do Lanhoso is an archaeological site, which is situated 3 km west of Fonte Arcada e Oliveira.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Calvos e Frades and Galegos.
Calvos e Frades
Village
Calvos e Frades is a freguesia in the municipality of Póvoa de Lanhoso, northern Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes of Calvos and Frades.
Galegos
Village
Photo: Joseolgon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Galegos is a Portuguese Freguesia in the Municipality of Póvoa de Lanhoso, with an area of 2.50 km² and 543 inhabitants. Galegos is situated 2½ km southwest of Fonte Arcada e Oliveira.
Taíde
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Taíde is a Portuguese Freguesia in the municipality of Póvoa de Lanhoso. It has an area of 7.34 km² and 1,613 inhabitants. Taíde is situated 3 km southeast of Fonte Arcada e Oliveira.
Fonte Arcada e Oliveira
- Categories: former freguesia of Portugal and locality
- Location: Fonte Arcada e Oliveira, Póvoa de Lanhoso Municipality, Braga District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
41.57959° or 41° 34′ 47″ northLongitude
-8.24611° or 8° 14′ 46″ westPopulation
1,270Elevation
217 metres (712 feet)Open location code
8CHHHQH3+RHOpenStreetMap ID
node 3171488212OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2739475Wikidata ID
Q963921
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Fonte Arcada e Oliveira” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Fontarcada”
- Cebuano: “Fonte Arcada”
- Chechen: “Фонтаркада”
- Dutch: “Fontarcada”
- French: “Fontarcada”
- French: “Freguesia de Fontarcada”
- German: “Fontarcada”
- German: “Freguesia de Fontarcada”
- Italian: “Freguesia de Fontarcada”
- Kazakh: “Фонтаркада”
- Portuguese: “Fontarcada (freguesia)”
- Portuguese: “Fontarcada”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia de Fontarcada”
- Russian: “Фонтаркада”
- Spanish: “Fonte Arcada (Póvoa de Lanhoso)”
- Spanish: “Fonte Arcada”
- Spanish: “Freguesia de Fontarcada”
- Tatar: “Фонтаркада”
- Turkish: “Fontarcada”
- Turkish: “Fonte Arcada”
- Ukrainian: “Фонте-Аркада”
- “Freguesia de Fontarcada”
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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 “Fonte Arcada e Oliveira”. Photo: Manuel Anastácio, CC BY 3.0.