Barca d’Alva
Barca d'Alva is a Portuguese village located in the municipality of Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, north of the Guarda District. Barca d'Alva is also located inside the Douro International Natural Park and less than 1 km away from the Portugal-Spain border, defined by the Douro and the Águeda rivers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Barca d’Alva railway station and Vega Terrón Pier.
Barca d’Alva railway station
Railway station
Barca d'Alva railway station was the terminal station of the Douro Line, until its closure in 1988. The station used to serve the village of Barca d'Alva and acted as a border station between Portugal and Spain, via the Barca d'Alva–La Fuente de San Esteban railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Poiares and La Fregeneda.
La Fregeneda
Village
La Fregeneda is a municipality of Spain located in the province of Salamanca, Castile and León. As of 2016 the municipality has a population of 337 inhabitants. La Fregeneda is situated 8 km southeast of Barca d’Alva.
Urrós
Village
Photo: Vitor Oliveira, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Urrós is a former parish of the municipality of Torre de Moncorvo, with an area of 57.43 km2 and 265 inhabitants. Urrós is situated 9 km northwest of Barca d’Alva.
Barca d’Alva
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: human settlement in Portugal
- Category: locality
- Location: Escalhão, Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo Municipality, Guarda District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
41.02681° or 41° 1′ 37″ northLongitude
-6.941° or 6° 56′ 28″ westElevation
146 metres (479 feet)Open location code
8CHM23G5+PJOpenStreetMap ID
node 270165275OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“Barca d’Alva” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Barca d’Alva”
- Bavarian: “Barca d’Alva”
- French: “Barca d’Alva”
- German: “Barca d’Alva”
- Portuguese: “Barca d’Alva”
- Portuguese: “Barca D’Alva”
- Portuguese: “Barca de Alva”
- Spanish: “Barca d’Alva”
- Spanish: “Barca de alba”
- Spanish: “Barca de Alba”
- Spanish: “Barca de Alva”
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Highlights include Plataforma de Ciência Aberta and Cais Turístico-Fluvial de Barca de Alva.
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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 “Barca d’Alva”. Photo: Tsy1980, CC BY-SA 4.0.