Golpilheira
Golpilheira is a village in Batalha, Leiria District. Golpilheira is situated nearby to the hamlet São Bento da Cividade, as well as near Picoto.Places of Interest
Highlights include Batalha Monastery and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Batalha Monastery
Monastery
The Monastery of Batalha is a Dominican convent in the municipality of Batalha, historical Beira Litoral province, in the Centro of Portugal. Originally, and officially, known as the Monastery of Saint Mary of the Victory, it was erected in commemoration of the 1385 Battle of Aljubarrota and would serve as the burial church of the 15th-century Aviz dynasty of Portuguese royalty.
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Museum
The Portuguese Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is located in the Sala do Capitulo at the Monastery of Batalha, near Leiria. It holds the bodies of two soldiers of World War I – one from the battlefields of Flanders, and one from the African theatre – who were buried there on 6 April 1921.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Leiria and Cortes.
Leiria
Leiria is a city of 127,000 people in Beira Litoral in central Portugal. It is home to a restored medieval castle.Golpilheira
- Type: Village with 1,450 residents
- Description: civil parish in Batalha
- Categories: freguesia of Portugal and locality
- Location: Batalha, Leiria District, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
39.6857° or 39° 41′ 9″ north
Longitude
-8.8188° or 8° 49′ 8″ west
Population
1,450
Elevation
79 metres (259 feet)
Open location code
8CFHM5PJ+7F
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OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Golpilheira” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Golpilheira”
- Cebuano: “Golpilheira”
- Chechen: “Голпильейра”
- Chinese: “Golpilheira”
- Dutch: “Golpilheira”
- French: “Golpilheira”
- German: “Golpilheira”
- Kazakh: “Голпильейра”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Golpilheira”
- Portuguese: “Freguesia de Golpilheira”
- Portuguese: “Golpilheira (freguesia)”
- Portuguese: “Golpilheira”
- Russian: “Голпильейра”
- Spanish: “Golpilheira”
- Tatar: “Голпильейра”
- Turkish: “Golpilheira”
- “Golpilheira”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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